Bunking Off ; Golf, Sunshine and Enough to Keep a Toddler Happy? Roger Love Perfects His Sandcastles and His Swing On a Family Trip to the Algarve

Daily MailApril 16, 2006

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AS WE stood at Cape St Vincent, the rugged south-west tip of Europe, watching the Atlantic Ocean crash against the monumental cliffs, I thought of the adventurers who stood here 600 years ago when Portugal's Western Algarve was the edge of the world and popular belief had it that to go over the horizon was to topple into the abyss.

'You'd think you would fall off the edge of the world,' I said to my threeyearold daughter, Kitty. She stared at me in disbelief.

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Bunking Off ; Golf, Sunshine and Enough to Keep a Toddler Happy? Roger Love Perfects His Sandcastles and His Swing On a Family Trip to the Algarve

In the 1400s this was home to Prince Henry the Navigator, the visionary who sent ships down the West Coast of Africa, from where they returned laden with gold and spices.

My reasons for being in the Western Algarve were far more m...

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