PORTUGAL
y boyfriend and I are in sleeping bags on the tiled floor of a disused swimming pool, counting shooting stars and drinking Vinho do Alentejo from a plastic water bottle, which we filled up in a bar for €2 (£1.72). The pool is in an overgrown garden — one of many picturesque ruins along the Rota Vicentina, a long-distance hiking trail connecting Santiago do Cacém, two hours south of Lisbon, to Cabo de São Vicente,
