Dunas Style: 2011

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Sale Time

New Year Sale

From January 2nd we will be holding a fabulous sale of end of line stock including:

Swim & Resort Wear, Handbags, Shoes,

Jewellery and Scented Products.

As our priveledged blog readers you have heard the news first, so hurry along and take first pick from Monday18th December. This is the perfect opportunity to create a holiday wardrobe at great prices. Or find a last minute Christmas Gift at great value!
Good News - Car Park Charges are suspended for the foreseeable future!!! Free Parking at Quinta Shopping!!

Not all items shown are available.

We still have a free gift to offer all our blog readers too!
( minimum spend 30.00 euros)

Melissa Odabash at Dunas

Heidi Klein at Dunas

Click Here for On Line Shopping

Quinta do Lago Beach - December 21st - 18 degrees!

For my last blog of 2011 I have posted below a collection of favourite images. As usual it has been a busy and eventful year with the shops and family, visitors and holidays.
We now await the New Seasons Exciting Arrivals and look forward to welcoming you back to this beautiful corner of Europe.
We wish you A Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Biblical Fishing Scene in Mozambique

Fishing off Cliffs - West Coast Algarve

Lavender in Full Bloom - Provence

Loule Market - Algarve - Cheese Board

Crashing Waves - Winter - Evaristo - Algarve

Blue Sky - Reflections - Algarve

Sky on Fire - Algarve - November

Catching the Sun - Kobi at Home in the Algarve

The Beautiful Dunes - Quinta do Lago

Tiny Church - Tavira - Eastern Algarve

With Best Wishes - Judy and Simon

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Christmas Thank You Offer

Thank - you !

As a Special Christmas Thank-you to all our wonderful customers we are offering a Free Christmas Gift with every purchase made over 30 euros between 1st and 31st December whilst stocks last.

We appreciate your continued loyalty in supporting Dunas and we hope we can continue to make shopping with us a pleasure.

Just mention this blog on your next visit to either

Dunas Lifestyle or Dunas Resort in

Quinta Shopping.

Ideas for Christmas

Click here to buy Pied-A-Terre Candle

Click here to buy 'Thai Vert' from Molton Brown at Dunas

We have a great selection of Scented Gifts

Molton Brown, Acqua di Parma, Ralph Lauren Home,

Max Benjamin, Abahna, Diptyque and Esteban.

Click here to browse these products on the Dunas website

Christmas Candles by Pointe A Ligne

Plus......... Cards, Crackers, Napkins ...........

For the perfect Christmas gift in Dunas Resort we have gorgeous wraps and scarves in softest cashmere and lambs wool and exquisite jewellery by Caleidoscope in sparkling semi-precious stones and Swarovski crystals.

Shop on line... just click here

A big thank-you to everyone who has already donated to our Mozambique School Project.

We will be collecting until the beginning of March so please continue to sort out your cupboards.

Finally

We apologise for the fact that you now have to pay to park at Quinta Shopping. This is a Loule Camara decision which we have no control over. We hope it does not lead to the Centre losing its treasured customers. In the grand scheme of things it is just a very small price to pay and we the hope that Portugal can sort itself out, so we can continue to enjoy all it has to offer.

Where else within two and a half hours from Northern Europe can you enjoy the peace and tranquility of the beach, the magnificent golf courses and unspoilt countryside, in the sunshine, in late Autumn and Winter!!

The lakes on San Lorenzo Golf Course in November and below a few of my favourite photos from the Algarve taken this Autumn.

Wishing You All a Very Happy Christmas

and a Prosperous New Year

from all of us!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Benguerra Island School

A Special Place

I took these photos during our recent stay on Benguerra Island, Mozambique.

These children are sitting in a classroom in a tiny school on a tiny island off the coast of Mozambique.

They love their school. Some of them walk nearly 5 kilometres each way to get there. It provides the only means to improve their lives and eventually find jobs off the island or with the resorts that are supporting this small community.

They have three enthusiastic teachers and three new buildings, but very little in the way of learning materials. They desperately need books in Portuguese, dictionaries, stationery, pens, pencils, rulers and all the things you would normally see in a school.

Their community subsists on the dwindling fish in the lagoon and what they can grow.

There are no roads, running water, sanitation, electricity or medical clinics.

With the generous offer of help from DHL Worldwide Express who have agreed to ship for free, and the Raindbow Fund set up by the Azura Resort on Benguerra, we would like to send out as much as we can collect to help this amazing community.

We would like to ask all our friends, customers, local businesses, and blog readers to donate a few useful items that will make a huge difference to these wonderful children.

I am sure you all have an odd drawer that needs a clear out!

To find out more and to offer your help please contact Judy by clicking the link below.

Benguerra School Project