Our 4 night stay at Carole's place was fabulous. Carole is a host second to none. She is hugely generous and she is very happy to share her wonderful garden too. We went in March April in slightly cooler weather and she even had hot water bottles and kept the heating on for us! She provided really generous breakfast foods, and we were able to pick greens and leeks from her vegetable garden, she has an abundant orange tree grapefruit and lemons and shared everything with us, which for us as vegetarians was a really great start to each day .... as the Portuguese love their fish and meat! Carole's home is beautiful and the space we stayed in is too. The views are other worldly and the position of the house is a two minute walk from old Sintra. Carole kept her eye on the details that made our stay really relaxing, and we had privacy if we wanted it. We got a taxi from the train station very easily and we were there in 5 minutes.