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We are Paula and Alexandre and both of us have been working for newspapers and magazines for more than two decades. We have lived in Mozambique, France, Belgium and Portugal. In the 1990s, our life and work went on in or near Lisbon. By that time, we were also looking for a nice place to buy a country home. We always shared a passion for Alentejo and that's where we found Figueirinha. The property was just a rough terrain with little more than a ruin but it was love at first sight. Along the years and with the help of good friends, we patiently restored the main house respecting its original character in the traditional southern Portugal architectural style. We've always liked to entertain guests, so on our weekends we gathered family and friends to spend our time restoring the house, setting the terrain for farming, preparing big meals and enjoying some beach time. More than fifteen years later, we decided we should share our beloved property with tourists from afar and we started building on another ruin down the land, this time with the precious help of an architect and some local crafters. In 2012, we finally opened Figueirinha Ecoturismo. We're still writing for magazines and running a publisher but our heart and soul have focused more and more on this spot of paradise in southern Portugal. We share with our guests a great love for travelling. We've been on big trips to Cape Verde, Oceania, the US from coast to coast, Brazil, the African continent, and on smaller trips all over Portugal and Europe. Alexandre has also travelled in China. We love—and have written about—aircraft and automobiles, sustainable economy and slow food, Africa and African music, white sand beaches, sunsets and gin and tonic. Paula loves cooking too. Our old cat Minux has lived with us since he was a small kitty and he's been enjoying his last years in the wild around Figueirinha, returning every evening to shelter in the coziness of his home corner.