Stories
The buildings, the people who keep them, and the trips they make possible.
Roundup
Six dome and bubble stays across mainland Portugal, Madeira and Galicia, from ten transparent domes on the plain outside Estremoz to a single bubble pitched over a river beside a restored watermill. Unit counts, what each one includes, and which of them put a telescope in the room.
1 September 2026
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Five buildings nobody put up for sleeping in: a heritage-listed border railway station let by the room or taken whole for twenty-two, a São Miguel estate's press house that sleeps four, and three shipping-container conversions running from forty-seven square metres of sea-facing glass to a thirty-five-metre box with a half-bath. Former uses, sizes and the awkward facts.
1 September 2026
Roundup
Six treehouses in Portugal you can sleep in, from a room built by hand six and a half metres up a carob tree in the eastern Algarve to a cabin in an ancient pine with a compost toilet. Sizes, what is shared and where the bathroom is, stated in every entry.
1 September 2026
Roundup
Six Azores stays built out of the rock the islands are made of: five houses for two in a Pico hamlet its people left in 1940, fourteen basalt-clad units in a village built from scratch, eight stone houses on a São Jorge fajã, four family houses and an old palheiro where the coffee grows, and one place you finish reaching on foot. Sizes, islands and how each is booked.
28 August 2026
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Six Madeira stays, sorted by what the building is: a cliff-foot farm reached only by cable car or boat, six farm buildings rebuilt at the island's western point, a cave dug into a Calheta terrace. Including the two that will not tell you how big they are.
28 August 2026
Roundup
Four lighthouse and semaphore conversions on the Galician coast, from a two-apartment keeper's house on an islet to a seventeen-room hotel at the foot of a working light. What each one actually is, and how big it actually is.
27 August 2026
Roundup
Seven river mills you can sleep in, from an eighteenth-century granite mill let whole to two people with its wheel and grindstone still in place, to a mill of three to four hundred years split into four houses with its own private river beach. Sizes, rivers and what survives of the machinery.
26 August 2026
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Seven places to sleep on a working wine estate — a medieval Dão house handed to one group at a time, stone wineries on Pico's north coast, six rooms named after Ribeiro grapes above a Galician bodega, an eleven-room quinta on the Douro. What each one is, and how many other guests are on the estate with you.
25 August 2026
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Six cabins where a building was designed rather than ordered — 25 square metres of wood and cork wrapped around a chestnut tree, two black fishermen's huts on the Sado, three timber shelters you finish reaching on foot. Sizes, architects where we can name them, and how many cabins are on each site.
24 August 2026
Roundup
Eight villages and hamlets that were emptied and then put back together, from sixteen basalt houses on Flores to a Lugo farm rebuilt out of recycled material. Which five give you a whole house, which three give you a room, and how many buildings each one actually has.
24 August 2026
Roundup
Five converted Portuguese windmills — a São Miguel mill with a 360-degree bedroom on a sea cliff, a Santarém mill that kept its original gears, and three single mills on the mainland you take whole. What each building is, who it sleeps, and what comes with it.
24 August 2026
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