We loved Sergio's property as soon as we arrived, we were met by Carlos and Marta, his parents who helped us to park the car in the private drive and showed us the apartment which is just lovely. It has insect screens (very useful), fabulous kitchen, everything we wanted and in a beautiful location, only about 10 mins drive from the beach. We bought fruit and veg from the van at the roundabout at Ste Isidoro on Friday morning, very reasonable prices. Sergio gave us lemons and courgettes from his garden. He came to visit us and we had a great conversation about life in Portugal. You definitely need a car, we drove from the UK took a ferry to St. Malo then drove across France, Spain and into Portugal. Sergio's apartment was the perfect place to arrive at the end of our journey, he certainly is a super host and we were very sad to leave!