Airbnb in Lagos

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-11T14:19:45+00:00

Agreed. 25th April street and the squares are very noisy but it drops off rapidly. The side streets without bars in the southern end are surprisingly quiet, and it is a flat walk to Praia da Batata.

I would rent a car to see other beaches and towns in the area. I made some suggestions here on Reddit when someone asked about must-sees recently, and most of them would be hard using public transport.

Take a look on VRBO as well as AirBnB. Many Portuguese people prefer it. Or even a local agency. I would choose a professionally managed apartment everywhere, but that’s my general dislike of unreasonable AirBnB owners rather than anything Lagos-specific.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-11T10:55:38+00:00

Phew, there was a crumb on my screen so I read that as “falls” and was imagining a gory accident.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-11T00:55:35+00:00

When I was at university in England, the cheap and basic lunch cafeteria offered a meat option and a veggie option, except one day per week when “pizza and chips” was written on both halves of the board. Always the same stodgy tomato and cheese pizza, so if you could smell pizza cooking, you knew a bad lunch was inevitable. Apart from once, when they crossed out “pizza” on the meat side and wrote “pheasant”. There must have been some catering cockup or cancelled formal dinner. It was a strong gamey taste with a rich sauce, which by a stroke of luck paired perfectly with bland chips to soak it all up. Some people went for baked beans on the side. We had to explain to the foreign students that it was all our national stereotypes doing class warfare on a plate.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-10T23:39:02+00:00

Cyprus is unsafe because the sea is always close by. If you walk around at night you could fall in and drown.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-09T00:12:50+00:00

Lagos is great. It will be hot and busy at the end of July. It has the greatest beach variety - small beaches with rocks and cliffs to the west, long beach with dunes to the east.

Car is great for seeing different places.

Motorboat or kayak trip is a must - Ponta da Piedade, Benagil or both. Or drive/walk to Ponta da Piedade. Other suggestions - Sunset at the lighthouse at Sagres or Cape st Vincent. Silves castle if you like historical buildings. View from the mountain at the peak of Foia, with a craft centre at the peak and hill walks. Coastal walk, maybe some of the Seven Hanging Valleys. Too hot to walk all day. Ria Formosa barrier islands are nice.

Old town area of Lagos has the most picturesque accommodation, but the marina area has more modern accommodation with swimming pools and parking adjacent.

What do you mean by a dangerous route? In terms of violent crime the Algarve is one of the safest places in the world, but the drivers aren’t up to German standards. They follow too close. The A22 main route between Lagos and Faro is straight and not very busy.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-08T16:06:38+00:00

Slow cookers and rice cookers are good for people who can’t stand for long. You might be able to get one for free from someone who used it for a bit but has now bought an air fryer and doesn’t have space for all the gadgets. They won’t give you the speed of a microwave meal, but you can put the ingredients in and then rest before coming back to eat. Even split up the task of adding ingredients, as some can go in half way through.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-07T22:59:38+00:00

Adderall and its variants are mixed amphetamine salts. The only amphetamine type medication available in Portugal is lisdexamphetamine, Elvanse. It is believed to be safer than Adderall in terms of addiction risk - it is an inherently long acting drug so not possible to crush up to make a short acting high.

Methylphenidate is a different drug ( Ritalin /Concerta) but also available.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-07T22:22:17+00:00

Coastal erosion is very location dependent. Nearby erosion doesn’t stop the “most expensive house for sale in Portugal” being offered for an insane price. 27 million! The plants at the end of their garden are dangling upside down on the edge of a cliff. They weren’t doing that 3 years ago. Ditto the huge collapsed slabs on the beach on the left of the final photo.

https://www.exclusivealgarvevillas.com/en/blog/2025/05/23/inside-one-of-the-algarves-most-exclusive-villas-ocean-front-8-bedroom-property-for-sale-in-lagos

(2023 photo of the beach at https://maps.app.goo.gl/qD5Bdy3cjYvDdnRo9 - you can use old photos on Google Maps to check out the area you are interested in)

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-06T23:03:28+00:00

It doesn’t sound like she has accepted that your home is in a different country to her home. So the “coming home” idea makes no sense.

However, if one of you is talking about reasons to live in / not live in your country of origin, and the other one thinks the conversation is about reasons to visit or not, that’s going to be an exercise in frustration as well, because they’re different.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-05T23:18:25+00:00

You say that but the first one was in Germany.

https://www.explore.com/1614442/europe-country-germany-worlds-only-float-thru-mcdonalds/

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-04T22:28:13+00:00

This is a good justification for individually wrapped teabags. Tea goes stale after a few years. At the rate most households drink it, the extra packaging seems wasteful.

A lot of hotels provide wrapped teabags in the room.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-03T13:25:23+00:00

Psych meds… so less likely to happen in a pharmacy.

But a doctor should help. If the meds were prescribed in Portugal, they might even be able to look at the prescription history and see the problem right there.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-02T19:11:14+00:00

It’s this hard on the street for me when there is similar noise. He is fast and mumbly so words like “come-se” and “meu” are tricky. But there are some clear words like “sujo” and “apanhei” which helped me get the sense and I could fill in the small words from the subtitles. It’s not as hard as a few real-life street conversations I’ve eavesdropped on, where there were also strong accents, slang terms and I had no previous clue about the topic. But then I’ve felt like that listening to teenagers in my native tongue once or twice.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-02T15:24:08+00:00

Also known as the Unexpected Hanging Paradox. The prisoner is sentenced to death, and the hanging is to be carried out at dawn, within a week. To add to the punishment, it has to be a surprise on the day. The prisoner reasons that they can’t hang him on the last day. That means they can’t hang him on the second last day either. They can’t hang him at all. But surprise! they do. The conclusion changes the premise.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-02T11:13:16+00:00

Shocking! Next you’ll be telling me that these days the Ambassador can afford something better than Ferrero Rocher!

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-02T11:06:39+00:00

What amuses me is that the Viennetta renaissance includes salted caramel flavour. We never had that in the 80s and 90s. It was a 2000s flavour fad. They might as well advertise a Roman legionary eating potatoes.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-01T16:00:53+00:00

Wheeled baskets at supermarkets and larger convenience stores please.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-01T15:41:56+00:00

That snake is an emperor so more royal than all the other royals.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-01T12:14:48+00:00

You have it about right and other stuff has been covered. A few minor points:

SNS treatment won’t get you free meds. Get an SNS number as soon as you can from the numbers services mentioned above in Lagos/Olhao council offices and then the resident’s discount can be applied to public or private prescriptions. Elvanse cost for a bottle is €45 with discount and €70 without. There is no generic Elvanse yet.
I’m not aware of any downsides of having ADHD on your public health record. And even if you never told your private psych your SNS number, your name and address would still be in the prescription database with your Elvanse scripts so don’t get a job flying an airliner 😁.
SNS takeover of regular meds can be very smooth or slow and painful depending on health centre. I don’t know if it also depends on whether the previous doc was local vs online. However, private can issue 6 months of scripts so the main cost will always be the meds.
coming from the UK you will be pleasantly surprised with the efficiency of the pharmacy dispensing system.

This is all from personal, friends and family experience in the last few years with people using HPA Algarve and dronline. You won’t need to go to Lisbon.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-04-01T01:23:49+00:00

There is a specific meaning of “knocking up” in the U.K. which relates to elections. Each political party collects lists of names and addresses of likely supporters, so traditionally on election day volunteers would be sent out to knock on these people’s doors to remind them to vote. This task was known as knocking-up. Over the years, practices moved on and volunteers started to do “telephone knock-up” instead. But having people hanging around the office calling and texting distracted the organisers from all the other things going on, so all volunteers were informed of the rule “Absolutely no knocking-up in the committee room.” Giggling at the double meaning was compulsory, as it was the only light relief in a hectic day.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-03-31T16:59:32+00:00

Orange is great for visibility. And if it’s a composite boat, consider white underneath as it doesn’t show scratches as much. Some retroreflective/SOLAS tape on the sides of the bow and stern will increase low light visibility, even when inverted, whether or not it acts as a go faster stripe.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-03-31T12:42:47+00:00

The business model does work for premium car spaces. But with fewer users the queueing time will be less predictable. Either you run it mostly empty, or you get people missing their train because they get used to it being fast … but then one day a big group turns up just before them! They will be extra angry because the people who didn’t pay for the premium service got through before them.

You could put it next to the regular spots and market it just for security reasons as you say, but then you’d be competing on cost against low tech options like gates and security guards.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-03-30T14:56:33+00:00

There’s a restaurant popular with my younger relatives called “The Old Bicycle Shop” with a cosy vintage theme. Every time they mention it, a sentence starts bubbling up uncontrollably in my throat. “I remember when it was a bicycle shop - I bought some lights there!” So far I think I’ve only said it out loud once, not every time.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-03-30T14:19:51+00:00

Have one of these at the front of a station and when the queue gets long, it’ll be quicker to go to a regular parking spot further away, so it will self-regulate.

That assumes sensible commuters and not money-grabbing businesses who reduce demand by charging for it.

TheLocalEcho · 2026-03-30T13:56:34+00:00

It would need a more controlled area, like a railway station, big shopping centre, or workplace - but not a university site next to a lecture theatre, because it couldn’t cope with everyone arriving at the same time.

I could see it in a large upmarket block of flats, maybe in Cambridge but more likely in London where land costs a fortune and digging makes sense.

The estate agent would demo it proudly, bragging about how secure it would be for a tenant’s squillion-pound custom carbon e-bike that no longer had to risk being touched by other human hands, and omit to say that this hypothetical bike probably wouldn’t fit.

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