Bask on the beach in Portugal’s answer to Whitstable. Plus stay in a divine Sussex vineyard, or in a one-bed villa with pool in Chianti
Why go?
Comporta is the beach retreat of choice for Lisbon’s fashion and media set, who decamp here at weekends to hang out in chichi fisherman’s cottages just an hour’s drive from the city. Think of it as a Portuguese Whitstable, only with vast sandy beaches instead of small pebbly ones, sun-bleached seafood shacks instead of wind-battered ice cream vans, pink flamingos instead of seagulls and Brazilian models instead of… OK, so it’s nothing like Whitstable. A lack of accommodation has kept Comporta under the radar, but that’s changing, with the arrival last year of a gorgeous new hotel and rumours of a five-star Aman Resort on the horizon.