Octopus Oasis

ARRIVE. UNWIND. EXPLORE.

Welcome to Octopus Oasis 🐙
Two apartments, one philosophy: make your stay in Lagos feel easy, comfortable and a little bit special: Old Town, right in the heart of Lagos, or Hill View, with peaceful views and everything close by.

27/10/2026

Our favourite seat in the Old Town apartment is not the sofa.
It is the green nook: a rattan chair by the window, wrapped in plants.
There are 10 of them across the flat, keeping you company between beach days.
All on a quiet street in the historic Old Town, right among the cafés.
More: https://octopusoasis.com/accommodations/ -town

27/10/2026

A peek inside the printed guide 👀

The Old Town walk, stop by stop. The grottos, three ways in. Lunch by the boats and coffee like a local. And blank pages at the back for your favourites, so it becomes your book too.

Each copy is numbered by hand, 1 to 25, and signed by both of us.

€16 · https://octopusoasis.com/printed-guide/

25/10/2026

What's on in Lagos this week, 26 October–1 November

Tuesday: Lagos Municipal Day, around town (free)
Friday: Avi Avital and Vasco Dantas, Igreja de São Sebastião (free)
Friday to Sunday: Sagres Sessions surf festival, Sagres
Saturday: Halloween ball, Odiáxere (free)

Full list, with times and prices: https://octopusoasis.com/whats-on-in-lagos/

24/10/2026

Lagos & the Algarve, on paper. 📖

For years we've told our guests our favourite places over coffee. Now it's a book you can hold: 56 pages, printed in Portugal, numbered by hand and signed by the two of us.

There are only 25.

Inside: day plans for one, three or five days, the Old Town walk stop by stop, the grottos and where to watch the light, where we eat, and blank pages for your own trip.

€16, collected at the apartment if you're staying with us, or posted anywhere in Portugal and the EU.

Order yours: https://octopusoasis.com/printed-guide/

Anna & Jakub

24/10/2026

Autumn in the inner Algarve means strawberry trees in fruit.

The fruit takes about a year to ripen, so it hangs on the branch in autumn right alongside next year's flowers.
Pliny the Elder is said to have tasted one and declared "unum tantum edo": I eat only one. The tree's Latin name, Arbutus unedo, comes from that line.
Most of the crop becomes medronho, the local fruit brandy. Many bottles sit around 48%, so go gently.

More: https://octopusoasis.com/lagos-portugal/lagos-guide/

24/10/2026

Lagos once ran on sardines, brine and a factory siren.

Until the First World War, Lagos was the Algarve's biggest canning centre. At the 1925 peak, up to 29 canneries were working here at once.
When the boats came in, the siren called the workers, mostly women, often through the night.
The last Lagos cannery closed in 1986. The tiled sardine on every souvenir shelf in town is its quiet monument.

More: https://octopusoasis.com/the-gritty-glorious-age-of-canning-what-really-happened-to-the-algarves-sardines/

20/10/2026

Breakfast with the hills for company.

At Hill View, a private terrace runs along the rooms, with a lounge sofa and a dining table made for slow mornings and long evenings outside.
Inside there are 72 m2, a king bed and room for four.
Porto de Mós beach and the cliff trails are 15 to 20 minutes on foot, and pets always stay free.

More: https://octopusoasis.com/accommodations/ -view

18/10/2026

What's on in Lagos this week, 19–25 October

Tuesday: w**e game night with tapas, Lazy Jacks
Thursday: slow dating for singles, Indigo Bar
Saturday: amateur fado contest final, Centro Cultural de Lagos
Sunday: Algarve Choir Festival, Igreja do Carmo (free)

Full list, with times and prices: https://octopusoasis.com/whats-on-in-lagos/

17/10/2026

Lagos has been a salt town for two thousand years.

Under Rua Silva Lopes in the Old Town, archaeologists found a Roman fish-salting complex of 15 tanks, in use from the 1st century AD to the mid 6th century.
Just east of town, the old Salinas de Odiáxere on the Ria de Alvor are largely abandoned now, and they have become one of the best spots in Lagos for watching waterbirds.
The hand-raked tradition lives on in Tavira, where coarse salt and flor de sal have been EU protected since 2013.

The whole story is in our latest Layers of Lagos post.
More: https://octopusoasis.com/white-gold-on-the-ria-the-quiet-story-of-salt-in-lagos/

17/10/2026

Endereço

Lagos

Website

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