FANTASTIC FOOD EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK

IT’S NOT hard to find great, traditional food in the Algarve, but that didn’t stop us finding a Nando’s – no, not that one, but the restaurant where the first piri piri chicken was served.

Lunch at The Ramires restaurant in Guia was a little taste of home, at its actual home – and my word was it tasty!

But just as you can’t escape the beach, you similarly can’t escape fish. Restaurants in the Algarve serve up the freshest and tastiest fish you could find.

My favourite meal was the sea bass, pictured, I ate on my last night at Restaurante Don Sebastiao in Lagos. It was actually the first I had ever eaten, but I’m now a convert.

The main attraction in the restaurant is the underground wine cellar, home to hundreds of ports and wines, some of which are centuries old.

One cabinet even boasted a bottle from Charles and Diana’s wedding.

For me, food is the marker of a good holiday. I even managed to bring some home with me.

Sardines, of course, from the end of the world...