So first there was the idea..

We only started planning this trip a couple of months ago. My mom suggested she could take me somewhere warm & sunny, since we haven't been spending time together in years. Only some short visits and such. I think we didn't even concider other options, but picked Portugal right away. It's a lovely country, and we've been there a couple of times before when I was 12yrs or so. Once we even spent a whole summer there, in the lovely town of Aljezur in southern Portugal.

I've so missed the country ever since!

We decided to take one of these last minute trip that are cheap to get a week or two before your actual holiday. I checked a Finnish site with a good listing of such regularly (Napsun äkkilähdöt) and soon noticed there were plenty of flight & hotel packages to Portugal with decent prices.

Then, just a few weeks before our planned date of leaving the country, my good friend Aija (now living in Sweden) decided to join us! I'm soooo happy! I really enjoy spending time with my mom and her hubby, but at least my mom's the biggest sun worshipper I know. And I'm not into sleeping by the pool that much. I wanna run around and see things, meet people and photograph everything I can see. So, Aija is the perfect pal for doing stuff like that.

So, the price for one traveller (including the flights, transportation from the airport & a 4-star hotel) was less then 400 euros. I think Aija got off a bit cheaper, since she got an excellent deal for flights.

More about the hotel & Albufeira soon!

-Tiia-