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Portugal:If your favourite holiday souvenirs are a well-thumbed guidebook, a camera crammed with colourful snaps and a healthy sun-kissed glow, look no further than Portugal. Car hire, swimming cossies and a road map or two are all you need to open up Portugal’s treasure trove. So what are you waiting for? Pack that picnic, open the sun-roof and hit the open road.
So you thought Portugal was all about bustling beach resorts and the seemingly endless gold sands of the Algarve? You wouldn’t be the first. But all it takes is a short drive out of the holiday havens of Albufeira or Vilamoura to change your mind. When it comes to Portugal, car hire makes all the difference between a fully-packaged run-to-the-sun and your own personal Portuguese experience.
A mountainous north coated in chestnut forests and riddled with rivers. An untouched heartland dotted with villages and scented by citrus groves. An arid south blessed with some of Europe’s finest beaches and resorts that make summers sizzle. Portugal may be small, but it packs a lot in – and with your own car, you get to see it all.
The sophisticated streets of super-cultural Lisbon. The serene greenery of the Beiras mountains. The 200 kilometre long alter of sun worship called the Algarve. Whether you set your suitcases down in a tailor-made resort or a seaside city like Faro, Portugal car hire breaks put the whole country on your itinerary.
Watersports and wild nights out one day. Hamlets and historic sights the next. Shopping and getting arty another. Some call it fickle – we call it freedom. This is Portugal, your way.