During our stay, we visited the posh area of Vilamoura. I say this because the town (and actually not a town, but an area), built specifically for tourism, is essentially a haven for golfers and people with yachts and very fancy, expensive boats.
According to one of our favorite hotel staffers, Vilamoura was built only about 36 years ago by a rich dude who wanted to build a city. So he did. So Vilamoura doesn't have the interesting history of many of the other places we visited, but it is colorful and certainly someplace you want to visit if you are a golfer.
When one walks through central part of the area, a purpose-built marina surrounded by restaurants, shops and hotels, many of the pubs and shops have names related to its purpose - (19th Hole, Fairways, Par 3 - that kind of thing). There are also numerous shops that sell golf clothing and equipment. There are six golf courses in the immediate area. There is also evidence of who spends time in Vilamoura by the Bentleys, Mercs, Porsches and other such cars parked and driving in and around the area.
As we admired all of the exotic cars, we thought of my uncle Denis. The boats made us think that Ruth and Dean would be right at home here, and of course, my parents would be delighted to be golfing in these beautiful surroundings.
Side note: Sir Cliff Richard (a famous 60ish UK rock star known as "bachelor boy") spends a fair amount of time in Vilamoura, and we'd heard from others that he was there while we were in the area. Sir Richard owns a vineyard in Portugal and we did actually enjoy one of his wines at dinner one evening. It was reasonably good - and we did managed to finish the entire bottle :)
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