Coliving in the Algarve, for a month or more.
Coliving houses, towns and long stays along Portugal's southern coast, and what a month here actually asks of your patience.
A month or more by the coast, with people around you.
Coliving houses around the Ria Formosa, the towns along the coast — Lagos, Faro, Olhão, Fuseta and Tavira — and what each is like through a whole season: where to work, how to get around, where to run, what is on and who you end up living with.
What coliving is, and whether it suits youLagos
The end of the line, and a town that keeps going in winter.
The western end of the coastal railway: a walled old town, a marina, the Ponta da Piedade cliffs, and a remote-worker crowd that arrives as summer leaves.
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Belavista Coliving & Retreat
A family-run house on the hill between Olhão and Fuseta, in the family since 1942. Sea views, a pool, a dedicated work room, and a kite and paddleboard operation attached to it from April to October.
- Connectivity
- Fibre (operator's description, no figure published)
- Workspaces
- Dedicated work room with monitors
- Commitment
- Not published
- Pace & noise
- Countryside; nearest town five minutes by car
Stories from a season in the Algarve.
First-person essays and days in town: what a season in an Algarve town is really like, and what a coliving house is like from the inside.
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