One of our best holidays EVER! The location / the garden with the little ponds (with frogs, fishes and turtles), all the really beautiful flowers + the (almost) private pool is just awesome and not possible to describe with just some words. And... you can see the ocean from one edge of the garden! The garden also offers enough space / possibilities to relax.
We had the little garden studio (which offers everything you could possibly need for a vacation), which is in a seperate building. So there (and on the terrace with a shade giving tree) we had enough privacy.
Also Carvoeiro is a perfect place for staying: Just enough touristic infrastructure to not get bored, but also not too much (no cheap party atmosphere, no big buildings / hotels). And it is quite central at the Algarve, so that you can reach all the interesting places in the west and in the east within 1 or 1,5 hours.
And both, Vanessa and Terry are really nice and hospitable hosts. And always helpful if you need to know an interesting place to see or a good restaurant.
We will definitely return to the Algarve (as we really fell in love with it) and, if so, we will stay again at "Casa das primas"!
Thanks for everything, Vanessa and Terry!
Katharina and Holger (from Germany, Berlin).