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Written from Albufeira

The journal.

Everything else on this site is written to still be true next year. This is the part that isn't — dated pieces about what is happening now, which go out of date on purpose rather than quietly.

Albufeira, September 2026

Albufeira in September.

The best month here, and it is not close. The sea is at its warmest of the year, the August crowds go home in the first ten days, and the light in the last hour of the day is the reason photographers come in autumn rather than summer.