Quinta da Vida

09/11/2024

🌅 tip for watching the sunset 🌅

From our Quinta you can see the top of the mountain ‘Sao Miguel’ at 411 meters above sea level.
It’s a great place to watch the sunset and overlooking the Ria Formosa. On clear days you look way further than Faro and Tavira. Beautiful! 😍

It’s a nice activity to do with (little) kids. They love the views, you can explain where the different villages are and teach them about the sunset/sunrise.

For the sporty ones, you can run or cycle to the top. Heavy, but worth the effort 😉
Who wants to give it a try? Or maybe already did? 🚴‍♂️🏃‍♀️

19/10/2024

😍

No words needed. Just beautiful.

29/09/2024

🥳 Happy birthday 🥳

Today 34 years, what a mileage. A quarter of my life I live in Portugal. What a blessing.
This morning I woke up and there were balloons 🎈 flowers 🌺 and presents. A nice picnic with self made apple pie 🤤 and family and more nice things to come. So, long story short: a great day so far.

21/09/2024

📣 Breaking news 📣

It’s official, we are going to move! But don’t worry, we will stay very close as we are moving to the house of our neighbours 😍

This means that we are going to rent out our current private house from December this year onwards. 🤗
Name of the house: Cabana do Campo 🏡

A lot of our guests were/are curious to see how we live. Well here is a sneak peek 👀 haha. The photos are with our private stuff inside so in november we will give you an updated version how it is going to be when you would stay with us.

What makes Cabana do Campo so unique?

🔸 Self made by Gust and myself, with love!
🔸 A huge veranda to enjoy the outdoor life the whole year round
🔸 A very private garden (all fenced) with views to the hills
🔸 3 bedrooms
🔸 Very spacious living room/kitchen
🔸 Kids corner with toys
🔸 Cosy wood burner for during the winter
🔸 Workspace/desk
🔸 Air conditioning (cooling and heating)
🔸 Glass fiber internet
🔸 Shared swimming pool
🔸 And last but not least, our service ♥️

For more pictures or to book your stay go to www.cabanadocampo.com

Hope to see you soon!! 🤗

01/09/2024

🌿 Carob time 🌿

August is the time to harvest the carob (Alfarroba). Which is used for many different things such as flower for cakes, medicine and food for animals.

This year we had great help from Bob and Sam but also from our young guests 💪🌿🙏

We bring the carobs to a company who collects all the carobs from the neighbourhood. Millions of carobs in one place… amazing 🤩!!! Our boys liked it too.

01/08/2024

☀️ Farol ☀️

Farol is a small village on one of the beautiful islands that the Ria Formosa has, Ilha Culatra. You can go there by ferry or with the water taxi.

Yesterday we went with our sailboat to celebrate Gust’s birthday 🎁. A beautiful day with friends and with beautiful views like this 😍⛵️

We had a good lunch at Restaurant ‘A do João’ .farol
Obrigada! 🙏

27/07/2024

20/07/2024

🐱 BIA 🐱

Meet our newest member of our family: Bia the cat.
She is still a kitten and loves attention! 😍

She is funny, quick and sweet. When you stay with us you will definitely see her. Bia is looking forward to meet you! See you soon 🤗

Photo credits to Peggy 😘

14/07/2024

☀️SUP ☀️

This week we went early in the morning for a little SUP tour around Fuseta beach. 😍

We have two SUP’s for rent. They are inflatable so easy to take with you! Of course they come with a pump, paddle and fin. We do have waterproof bags to bring your personal belongings.

€30 for a full day or €50 for both of them.

07/07/2024

🌅 Sunrise in the Ria Formosa 🌅

Last night I slept on our little sailboat with Bob. This morning when we woke up we watched this beautiful sunrise 😍 a very good start of the day!

The Ria formosa is a beautiful natural park with many bird species and fish. 🐟

Bob and I made a trip on our SUP (which you can rent from us) from Praia dos Cavacos to Armona and back. We saw flamingos 🦩 two squids 🦑 a sea star ⭐️ and a lot of other fish. Last but least we saw sea cucumbers too 😂

It’s highly recommended to make a boat trip through the Ria Formosa! Or to explore the area by SUP! ☺️

30/06/2024

😍 Privacy 😍

When we decided to renovate our Quinta into five separate houses, we had a big wish; every house a large private terrace. 🌿🌺

This is one of the things that makes Quinta da Vida unique in her way. Happy to give this private space to our guests!

Every terrace has a lounge set, dining table, two lounge chairs and of course a barbecue 🍗🐟🌽

15/06/2024

🚲 Bicycle 🚲

Often we get the question if we miss something from the Netherlands. Besides the ‘hagelslag’ (chocolate sprinkles), Dutch cheese and ‘appelstroop’ (kind of jelly made from 🍎), I miss cycling too. I do cycle on my road bike and enjoy it a lot. But with Bob and Sam we hardly go somewhere by bicycle. This last week we had Dutch guests how had an electric bike with two child seats on it. They were so kind to me that I could borrow their bike for a morning. Thank you ☺️

So I brought Sam and Bob to the daycare by bike. They loved it 😍
Hopefully in the future it will happen more!

31/05/2024

🎁 Welcome gift 🎁

We are always very happy to welcome our guests and we like to treat them special. ♥️

Besides a cold bottle of wine in your fridge, from now on you will find a little welcome gift too. It’s local olive oil from the olive press in St. Catarina, which is delicious 🤤 and made with our local olives (from own garden). And sea salt from the salt mines in Tavira.

Why did we choose for those two products? Because it’s delicious, especially in combination with fresh bread 🥖

The bottle of olive oil is 80ml so you can put it in your suitcase 😉

19/05/2024

🏖️ Fuseta beach🏖️

The closest beach is Fuseta. It is a 15 minute drive and you won’t need to take a ferry.
This beach is perfect for families with small kids as the beach is sheltered behind Fuseta Island so there won’t be big waves 🌊. Our sons Bob and Sam love it there 😍

There are sun beds and umbrellas and a beach bar. The beach bar is a great place to enjoy the ☀️ the whole day.

There is a possibility to go to Fuseta Island which is a beautiful beach and nice waves 🌊!
From the 1st of June the beach bars will be open on the island too.

07/05/2024

🥳 2 years! 🥳

28/04/2024

🍭🍰 Let the cooking begin 🍰🍭

I made an outdoor ‘sand- kitchen’ for the kids to play with. It’s a hit!! 😍 Great to see how all the kids are playing together and create the most delicious cakes and ice creams 🍦😂

14/04/2024

🥗 Dinner tip! 🥗

There is a very good restaurant in Faro which is called ‘Pigs and Cows’. The owners, who are Portugese 🇵🇹and French 🇫🇷 , combined the best flavours and traditions from both kitchens to create very tasteful meals. They work with seasonal ingredients so the menu varies from time to time. 🥦🍅
Other than the name suggests they have also fish and vegetarian meals 😉

Not ideal with kids but perfect for night out with friends or as a date night ♥️

is located in Faro. Check their instagram or website www.pigsandcowsalgarve.com

07/04/2024

🍼 Babysitter 🍼

We would like to introduce our Babysitter Saskia. She can babysit while you are having a lovely dinner with your partner or your friends ♥️

Saskia is a lovely woman who is trustworthy, friendly and reliable. We can highly recommend her as she babysits at our kids as well 😊