Good country, exhausting tourist industry

Portugal is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Cape Sagres is worth every superlative thrown at it. The bacalhau is legitimately excellent. stunning Atlantic coastline gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in Faro is relentlessly commercial and some towns still very cash-based is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic Portugal and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.