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Tidewater Travel · Charleston, since 2011
Slow coasts,
small groups, no rush.
Seven to ten days along the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Twelve people at most, one guide who lives there, and dinners at houses that don’t have a website.
4.9 / 5
from 2,312 reviews
12 max
guests on every departure
Praia da Marinha, Algarve. Day three of “The Western Edge”.
Who we are
Travel the way the locals wish you would.
Claire Dupree started this in 2011 with one sailing week in Portugal and a notebook full of friends who ran guesthouses, boats and kitchens on that coast. Most of those friends still host our groups. A few have retired, and their kids took over.
We walk where we can and eat where the fishermen eat. Groups stay small enough for one long table.
Our Azores walkers on the Ponta da Ferraria trail, May 2026.
Destinations
Four coasts we know by heart.
Every March our guides walk each route before the first group does. If a café has shut or a trail has washed out, we find out then, not on day four.
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Azulejo workshop at Fábrica Sant’Anna, Lisbon.
Signature experiences
The bits people write home about.
10am
Paint your own azulejo
Two hours with a tile painter in Lisbon’s oldest workshop. They fire it overnight and wrap it for the flight.
5am
Dawn on the dunes
Camel at five, mint tea at six. Nobody talks much. The sand goes from grey to pink to orange in about twenty minutes.
1pm
A boat, a cove, a lunch
Rui takes us in his fishing boat to a beach with no road. Sardines on the grill, a swim, a nap if you want one.
Salema harbor, 7:15am. We leave before the tour buses get in.
Sample itinerary · The Western Edge
Ten days on Portugal’s last coast.
Day 1–2
Lisbon
Alfama on foot, a fado supper, and the 6:40 tram before it fills up.
Day 3–4
Comporta
Rice fields, stork nests and a long lunch at Dona Bia’s, our oldest friend on the route.
Day 5–7
Vicentine Coast
Three stages of the Fishermen’s Trail, about 14 km a day, with your bags sent ahead.
Day 8–10
Algarve
A private boat to Benagil, a cooking class in Salema and a farewell dinner over the sea.
Since 2011
Fifteen seasons. Still small.
640
Departures run
7,800
Travelers hosted
38
Local guides
61%
Have been with us before
“Megan knew every baker between Lisbon and Sagres by name. Tom put on four pounds and doesn’t regret one of them.”
Hannah & Tom Whitfield, Portland, Oregon · The Western Edge, Sept 2026
Megan Brooks, our lead guide in Portugal since 2016.
Your guides
Hosts first. Guides second.
Every guide lives on the coast they lead. Megan left Asheville for the Algarve in 2016 and hasn’t been back except for Thanksgiving. Guides get a full-year salary, not a per-trip fee, so nobody has a reason to steer you into a gift shop.
2027 departures
One price. Almost everything included.
Small hotels, every breakfast, most dinners, transfers, entry fees and your guide. Flights and the third glass of wine are on you.
Sunset sail off Ponta da Piedade, included on every Algarve departure.
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The journal
Notes from the road.
Our guides write these, every other Sunday. Nobody pays us to mention a hotel.
Food
Twelve spices, one souk: cooking with Fatima in Marrakech
Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Walking
The Fishermen’s Trail, stage by stage, with the good coffee stops marked
Sep 28, 2026
Packing
What fits in one carry-on for ten days on the coast
Sep 09, 2026
People
Dona Bia has fed our groups for fifteen years. This is her rice.
Aug 21, 2026
Planning
Shoulder season: why we love October more than August
Aug 02, 2026
Book a trip
Pick a coast.
Pick a date.
Tell us which coast, roughly when, and who’s coming. Jenna or Marcus will write back within a working day with dates, rooms and an honest opinion (sometimes that opinion is “go in October”).
Charleston office
214 King Street, Suite 300
Charleston, SC 29401
Charleston, SC 29401
Hours
Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm ET
hello@tidewatertravel.com
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