Hello, dear expert! We are going to go to Portugal with the girlfriend in the end of September .Please advise us about the resort .We would like, that there was a nature, a beach where it will be possible to sunbathe / be bought, well and as presence of a night life .We understand perfectly well that this is not Ibiza, where everything around is "boiling," but we would like a pleasant place of escort and so that evenings are not too boring .We are thinking of going to Madeira, but after reading the information about this island, it was the impression that this is still a resort for middle-aged people .Perhaps we are wrong :) Please, tell us!

Responds Anna Larionova, Insight Travel Company
Please note that in Portugal discos open at midnight, and the youth have fun until dawn. According to our biological clock is already a deep night (3-4 am), and we may not even know what is behind the wall of our hotel disco. In addition, the places of accumulation of discos, as a rule, not in the resort itself. Therefore, many people in Portugal associate with a quiet and peaceful resort. It is for this that people like it, who cherish personal peace in combination with beautiful landscapes and warm climate, are not so attached to it, which is not directly related to age.

However, the Portuguese are one of the most gay nations! They invented the most famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro at the time when Brazil was one of the colonies of Portugal. In each region of Portugal regularly held carnivals and festivals, they are very serious about rest.

For example, in September in the Algarve is a folklore festival, in Sagres ornithological festival, Columbus Festival on about. Porto Santo, wine festivals are held throughout the country during this harvest period,

From cheerful carnivals to grandiose salutes entered in the Guinness Book of Records, from the sweet chocolate holiday to exciting rallies! There are regattas, jazz and rock festivals, golf and surfing tournaments, and many others.

If you choose the coast of the Lisbon Riviera, then consider the town of Estoril, closer to the Casino, or Carcavelos, which is still on the coast of the ocean, but close to the area of ​​Dokush - this is the place of the largest discotheques and restaurant-lofts in Lisbon. Dokush are on the river Tejo, on the outskirts of Lisbon, you can get there by the last train that runs along the coast, and return to the hotel on the first. It's fresh and bright, seagulls are shouting, cocktails are pouring down the river.

I also recommend for the evening walks a bustling Baixa district in the center of Lisbon. Life here boils around the clock, from business and fussy, at night it turns into an open-air bar.

In Algarve - Albufeira and Vilamoura are full of life and every bar on the beach has its own recipe for sangria, and discos have fun all night.

In Madeira, choose the resort area Lido, where as many young people, it is customary to order ponchu, and to dance salsa.

I wish you a pleasant stay!

August 21, 2013

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