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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Historically high <keyword id="11949066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lumber-prices" source="Orion">lumber prices</keyword> are driving earnings for companies that make faux-wood decks, CNBC first reported. </li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/TREX">Trex</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/AZEK">Azek,</a> are up 36% and 10%, respectively, year-to-date. </li><li>The companies both crushed earnings in the most recent quarter.</li></ul>Soaring <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/lumber-price?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">lumber prices</a> throughout the pandemic prompted some buyers to seek alternative building materials, and the stock prices of faux-wood producers have soared as a result. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/TREX">Trex</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/AZEK">Azek</a> are both producers of "fake-wood decks," and have seen their stock prices and sales boom during the pandemic amid high lumber prices, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/09/03/why-fake-wood-decks-are-booming.html">report from CNBC. </a>The companies produce decks that look like they are made of wood, but actually consist of materials including plastic, fiber, sawdust, and wood. The two companies control about 75% of the composite decking market, which is in turn about 20% of the entire $8 billion decking market, CNBC said.Winchester, Virginia-based <keyword id="12021044" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trex" source="Orion">Trex</keyword> grew sales 41% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2021, totaling $312 million. In the company's earnings report, the CEO attributed the quarter's success to sustained demand and market share gains from lumber.Shares of Trex have gained 36% in 2021 alone, far outpacing the S&amp;P 500's 20% rise. The faux-wood deck producer has jumped 55% since October 2020, when lumber began its surge.Stock in Chicago based-Azek has gained about 20% since October 2020, and is up 10% year-to-date. In the company's third fiscal quarter it increased consolidated net sales 46.4% year-over-year to $327.5 million. The company went public in June 2020 and is up 56% since then.Meanwhile, lumber is down 17% year to date, and has <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/lumber-price-today-now-commodity-sawmill-housing-market-homebuilding-delta-2021-08">fallen nearly 70% from it's all-time high in May</a> as supply and demand forces begin to even out.According to CNBC, the success of the fake-wood deck company's isn't only attributed to high lumber prices, but also to a broader shift in consumer preferences. Some consumers believe faux-wood decks are more affordable in the long-term because they last longer than wood decks in outdoor conditions.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>John and Fin Kernohan are Airbnb hosts who rent out eight units in their backyard in Georgia.</li><li>They live in a tiny cabin on the property and built a community around tiny living.</li></ul>In December 2011, newly engaged John, 60, and Fin Kernohan, 44, decided to leave their city lifestyle in Miami behind and move to Georgia. John had recently sold his medical-research-lab firm, and they wanted to live a quieter life.While John was happy to join Fin on this adventure, he wasn't prepared for what she had in mind. "I knew she wanted to downsize, but when Fin was talking about a smaller house, she meant really small — 304 square feet," John Kernohan told Insider.They'd already spent a year living on a canal boat in London, and Fin didn't see the need for a large house. They decided to sell their belongings and lease an 80-acre plot in a Georgia forest. They bought a lofted cabin shell from Derksen Portable Buildings that they could turn into a home.It took a year to turn the shell into a livable home, which they named the Beloved Cabin. They needed to insulate it with drywall, install a wood-burning stove, add electric and plumbing, build a bathroom and kitchen, and create custom furniture.<div type="image" title="the inside of a tiny home" height="1390" width="1125" msid="103958192" hostid="261" sizebytes="99828"></div>The shell cost $6,500. "An important part of tiny living is to have tiny expenses," John said. Their only expenses after the build were electricity and food.In 2014, Fin started looking for a more permanent location for their home and found a plot in Lake Oconee on Zillow. "When we first saw the site that was filled with trees and came complete with a natural spring, I felt like we were home," Fin Kernohan told Insider. "As we drove away, we immediately decided to make an offer."<h2>Building their sanctuary</h2>The 3-acre plot with its own creek became their permanent home in 2015. After moving their cabin by trailer to its new site, they put down roots by building a deck around it with the help of a friend.But this time they chose to install solar energy, a rainwater collector, and a HomeBiogas system for creating methane-gas cooking fuel, and use their natural spring for water.They started a garden with fruit trees, built boxes for vegetables, and created a small yard to house chickens and ducks for fresh eggs.In 2021, they added goats, which provided fresh milk and natural fertilizer to power the HomeBiogas.<h2>Learning how to live small</h2>The Kernohans first learned about the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/adu-tiny-homes-could-be-a-big-deal-2023-8">tiny-home trend</a> when someone created a fake account on a tiny-house listings site and posted an image from their Facebook page. While the fake account was taken down, a whole new world opened up to them.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/unitedtinyhouse/">Their Facebook page</a> began growing as the couple answered people's questions about their lifestyle.Keen to connect with other tiny-house owners, they launched the <a target="_blank" href="https://unitedtinyhouse.com/">United Tiny House Association</a>, which now has 183,000 Facebook followers and hosts festivals and charity events. They went on to build a <a target="_blank" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=7f5a6ff028c8287939422852846febcdd20f06a2882843dbe36cbb474aba7777&amp;postID=6511cd18135a312268e352e4&amp;postSlug=how-couple-left-miami-georgia-forest-tiny-home-airbnb-2023-9&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airbnb.com%2Frooms%2F45272105%3Fsource_impression_id%3Dp3_1695665856_HtrdeOzQ4LH4j8u0%26locale%3Den%26_set_bev_on_new_domain%3D1671762326_YWEyYzhmMWI0MGJl">tiny firehouse on wheels</a> to take to fundraising events to raise money for firefighters.<div type="image" title="the inside of a renovated tiny firehouse" height="3024" width="4032" msid="103958194" hostid="261" sizebytes="545336"></div><h2>Providing the ultimate getaway during the pandemic</h2>In March 2020, they visited Fin's parents in Thailand and stayed in a small villa on their property, alongside other family members who also had homes there. They thought about how they could recreate this community vibe on their own land but with tiny houses.They acquired three more plots of land and now own a total of 16 acres. One lot came with a 2,000-square-foot premanufactured house, which the couple decided to turn into a community space to give guests the chance to socialize.They parked the tiny firehouse on one patch of land and added two more tiny homes — one with a Moroccan vibe and the other decorated with ornate gold mirrors and ivy, giving it a French feel. They built each home from scratch using upcycled wood and decorated them with items they'd found on Facebook Marketplace or at recycling centers.<div type="image" title="a wooden tiny home" height="1381" width="1125" msid="103958196" hostid="261" sizebytes="327586"></div><h2>They welcomed their first guests in August 2020</h2>"When we opened, people were looking to get out of the city and into the country. It was ideal," John said. At first, their guests mainly came from Atlanta, but when travel restrictions were lifted, they started to attract tiny-house fans from as far away as Vietnam and South Korea.While Airbnb search provides the majority of their guests, they've attracted fans on TikTok. A short <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@belovedcabin/video/6976249941194738949?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;lang=en">tour of the inside of Beloved Cabin</a> that Fin made received over 1 million views.Like all homeowners, they've also faced their challenges. Cold weather last winter caused a pipe to burst in the tiny firehouse. "If you have a teeny pocket of water, it can blow something, and we should've just turned the heaters on," John said.<h2>Living the good life</h2>John spends his time in the community house baking cookies or serving up pancakes to hungry visitors. Fin, who's also a spa therapist, offers spa treatments to female guests.They've added a yurt, two domes, a bell tent, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/these-airbnb-owners-break-down-5-tips-for-managing-unique-properties-2022-12">a renovated bus</a> to the property. They now have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.airbnb.com.sg/users/show/17895887">eight listings</a> that range from $99 to $148 a night.Visitors can hit the hiking trails, go biking, or hire kayaks from the Beloved Cabin. They can also search for crystals in the creek. "We had to tell guests not to bring shovels or a wheelbarrow as one couple did, which was kind of funny," John said.They're booked during the holidays and most weekends but keep Monday to Wednesday free to leave room for planning festivals and their philanthropic work."I like the fact it's in our backyard," John said. "We hear horror stories of people renting out homes and they're taken over by parties. As it's in our backyard, we don't need to worry as we can keep an eye on things."Fin said she loves the pace of her life now. "What I love most about living in the Beloved Cabin is how simple your life is," she said. "You only spend time doing things that you love to do."

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Good morning, this is Jason Ma starting off a new week, which will see a surge of quarterly earnings reports. Some of the big names due include Netflix, Tesla, Johnson &amp; Johnson, and Goldman Sachs. So far, results from the big Wall Street banks have been mixed, with <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jpmorgan-q3-earnings-banks-jamie-dimon-inflation-rates-russia-ukraine-2022-10">JPMorgan</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/citigroup-stock-3q-earnings-profit-beat-fixed-income-trading-disappoints-2022-10">Citigroup</a> beating but <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/morgan-stanley-q3-earnings-revenue-investment-banking-markets-financial-ms-2022-10">Morgan Stanley falling short of forecasts</a>.Tesla's earnings report on Wednesday is also notable since <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-buyback-elon-musk-tweet-shareholder-leo-koguan-tsla-2022-10">CEO Elon Musk recently fueled speculation that the EV maker could announce its first-ever stock buyback</a>. If that does happen, it could coincide with with the third-quarter release.The slate of upcoming economic reports is less dramatic, though Wednesday will feature housing starts and the Beige Book, which will set up the Federal Reserve for its next policy meeting in November. Wall Street is widely pricing in a fourth consecutive rate hike of 75 basis points.If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-opening-bell">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://www.insider.com/app">here.</a><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-outlook-bear-hug-rally-federal-reserve-sp500-bofa-2022-10"></a>1. Wall Street is debating whether the massive upside reversal on Thursday was real or a head-fake. From intraday lows to highs, the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw a 1,500-point swing. For the S&amp;P 500, Thursday marked the fifth largest intraday reversal from a low. And for the Nasdaq, it was the fourth largest.<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-outlook-bear-hug-rally-federal-reserve-sp500-bofa-2022-10">Bank of America researchers said in a note Friday that the stunning rally in US stocks represented a bullish "bear hug"</a> that doesn't yet mark the start of a sustainable upswing. Michael Hartnett, the firm's chief investment strategist, attributed the turnaround to buying power triggered by extreme oversold conditions.Looking forward, he still sees a "Big Low" coming in markets — but is waiting first for signs of panic from the Fed. He noted that the economy remains too strong, especially in employment and manufacturing, for the central bank to consider cutting rates, which is usually something it does around when the Big Low sets in.On the more bullish side of the debate is Anthony Scaramucci, founder of investment management firm SkyBridge. He told CNBC on Friday that <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/anthony-scaramucci-stock-market-outlook-reversal-upswing-short-seller-capitulation-2022-10">Thursday's wild reversal wasn't just a bear market rally and could be the start of a new upswing</a>."We are, in my opinion, coming to the end of this bear market," Scaramucci told CNBC on Friday. "This could've been a bear market rally, but I don't think so. I think this is the start of something new. I think there was full-blown capitulation on the short side yesterday and lots of institutional buying."But looming over the stock market is the economy, which could slip into a recession. Last Monday, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jamie-dimon-stock-market-fall-20-percent-economic-recession-looms-2022-10?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets">JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he sees the stock market falling another "easy 20%"</a> as a recession is likely to hit the US economy over the next six to nine months.What do you think? Is the stock market poised for a sustainable uptrend or still teasing with bear market rallies? Email <a href="mailto:jma@insider.com">jma@insider.com</a>. In other news:<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/uk-delay-income-tax-cut-pound-finance-minister-jeremy-hunt-2022-10"></a><div type="image" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt" height="3326" width="4434" msid="94916452" hostid="261" sizebytes="514646"></div>2. The pound rises as UK's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt speeds up tax and spending plans announcement. The British <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/uk-delay-income-tax-cut-pound-finance-minister-jeremy-hunt-2022-10">pound was trading above $1.12 early Monday.</a> Plus, US futures are up — <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/premarket">take a look at the levels here.</a>3. Earnings on deck: Bank of America, Charles Schwab and others are all <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/earnings-calendar">reporting. </a>4. A portfolio manager beating 99% of his peers this year explains how most investors are ignoring opportunities. James Abate at Centre Asset Management believes that what makes him stand out is his unapologetic refusal to lock his investment strategy into a box. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-to-buy-bear-market-investing-strategy-top-portfolio-manager-2022-10">He shared nine standout stock picks that he says have enough pricing power to beat the bear market.</a>5. Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel said the housing market is distorting high inflation readings. Because housing data is lagging, he expects home prices to fall up to 15%. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/jeremy-siegel-falling-housing-market-distorting-high-inflation-september-cpi-2022-10">But a bigger worry for Siegel is what the Fed will do in response to falling home prices: nothing.</a>6. China is facing a full-blown debt crisis with $8 trillion at risk as Xi Jinping eyes an unprecedented third term. Bonds issued by local government financing vehicles are on the verge of default amid a broader property market crash. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/china-debt-crisis-lgfv-bonds-xi-jinping-communist-party-congress-2022-10">Experts think Beijing will have to step in with a bailout as officials try to prevent an already-slowing economy from deteriorating further.</a>7. The silver lining to this year's 25% decline in the stock market is that there is less risk of a "lost decade" going forward, according to Bank of America. The bank's long-term valuation model points to annualized gains of 6% over the next decade. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-outlook-valuation-reset-threat-lost-decade-sp500-returns-2022-10">But the stock market isn't out of the woods yet as there could be more pain in the short-term.</a>8. Doug Ramsey, chief investment officer of The Leuthold Group, sees big risks ahead for stocks. Valuations in past downturns suggest that the S&amp;P 500 could fall another 28%. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investing-stock-market-crash-inflation-recession-fed-economy-risk-ramsey-2022-10">Here's how Ramsey is investing now to protect his portfolio from further pain.</a>9. UBS Global Wealth Management explains what investors should do as rates rise and the economy slows. For at least a little while, nothing is going to deter the Fed from hiking rates, said chief investment officer Mark Haefele. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investing-stock-market-strategy-high-inflation-interest-rate-hikes-ubs-2022-10">Here's what he thinks investors should do now</a>.<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/lumber-price"></a><div type="image" title="Lumber prices" height="1220" width="1540" msid="94916454" hostid="261" sizebytes="32718"></div>10. Lumber prices have rallied this month despite a slowing housing market and rising mortgage rates. The key building commodity could again be in focus as fresh home-construction data come out on Wednesday. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/lumber-price">Despite the recent uptrend, lumber is well off its all-time highs from May 2021</a>.Keep up with the latest markets news throughout your day by checking out <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh">The Refresh from Insider</a>, a dynamic audio news brief from the Insider newsroom. <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh">Listen here.</a> Curated by Jason Ma in Los Angeles. Feedback or tips? Email jma@insider.com.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>The sleepy fishing villages of Portugal's Herdade da Comporta have always been where the fashionable European crowd goes off the grid. Now that new hotels and rental villas are emerging among the dunes, <a href="http://www.cntraveler.com/contributors/maura-egan?mbid=synd_bi">Maura Egan</a> finds that this hush-hush coastal retreat has become more open to visitors-without losing its under-the-radar cool.
For most drivers, the ride from Lisbon to the seaside village of Comporta clocks in at just over an hour, but Isabel de Carvalho can do it in about 45 minutes. "My father raced cars," explains the restaurateur as she expertly pilots her Peugeot station wagon down the highway and chats on her phone-to staffers, to dinner guests in from Seville, and to her husband and partner, Toze´, who is driving right behind us, transporting food and supplies from the city. We are late to arrive at the Museu do Arroz, the restaurant she opened 18 years ago and which is now the center of Comporta's nightlife, and it is obvious that the party doesn't start without De Carvalho.
Housed in a former rice-husking mill, the Museu do Arroz feels like an extension of De Carvalho's home: The lounge area is filled with overstuffed velvet couches, a disco ball hangs from the rafters, and there's a colorful Indian welcome banner above the bar. (Originally from Portugal, De Carvalho started out as a programmer for Texas Instruments and IBM in Europe before moving to Brazil and becoming an interior designer.) It's 10 p.m. and the start of the summer season, so De Carvalho shifts into hostess mode, navigating through the rooms, offering up kisses and menu recommendations (the salt cod fritters are excellent), and signaling waiters to refill water glasses. Toze´ works the other side of the room. "We never get a vacation," he says with a fake exasperated sigh, but you can tell that they both love the work. In the far corner, I see a table of people I'd met when I came to Comporta four years ago. They casually wave as if I'm here every Friday night. "Nothing really changes in here," says Joa~o De Vasconcellos, a businessman who also happens to make wine and breed sport horses. (Comporta is packed with multi-hyphenate hobbyists.) "Nothing has really changed in Portugal in 900 years!"
During my last visit, the local chatter was all about the Aman resort coming to the Herdade da Comporta-the official name of the swath of coastland in the south of Portugal that comprises seven small villages-but it sounded far-fetched. The area is a protected nature reserve in the country's rural Alentejo region, and it seemed a most unlikely place for a luxury resort. I was mistaken: Come next summer, Aman will indeed open a hotel with 40 suites. The imminent arrival of the Asia-based luxury resort chain has led to the development of more hotels. But the official mandate is to keep them all low-impact and architecturally sensitive. "No one wants this to become the Algarve," says Mandy de Azevedo Coutinho, a villa rental operator, referring to the stretch of coast farther to the south that has long been a package-holiday destination. While much of Europe's beachfront has succumbed to developmental sprawl, Comporta has remained untouched. "People come here because it reminds them of St-Tropez in the '70s," says De Azevedo Coutinho-or Ibiza in the '80s, or the Hamptons in the '90s. "My husband grew up in Angola," says De Carvalho. "And the first time he came here, he told me it reminded him of Africa."
<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Some say De Carvalho put Comporta on the map when she arrived in 1992, but really, you have to look further back. The Espi´rito Santo family-one of Portugal's, if not the world's, biggest banking dynasties-began visiting this rural backwater in the 1950s and bought a plot of land about one and a half times the size of Lisbon. The family fell in love with the untrammeled landscape-the miles of empty beaches, the dense forests of umbrella pines and gnarled cork trees, the endless patchwork of rice fields-and transformed it into their private playground. Clutches of fishermen's thatched huts were turned into unassuming compounds, with sandy paths leading from one family member's home to the next. Comporta became their summer retreat, not unlike the way parts of Maine and the Adirondacks were colonized by a handful of patrician American families.
In 1974, after the "Carnation Revolution," which overthrew Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo regime, all of the country's banks were nationalized and the Espi´rito Santo group lost much of its fortune. Having been banned from doing business in Portugal, different factions of the family moved abroad to rebuild their empire. In 1991, when they returned to develop Comporta, the land was overgrown, the houses were derelict, and abandoned cars were strewn about. After they restored the area and installed a true infrastructure (roadways, electricity), they decided to diversify their interests by investing in agriculture-namely wine and rice-and quietly parceling out land to individuals beyond the family and board members.
This first wave of friends and foreigners brought the likes of decorator Jacques Grange, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, and artist Anselm Kiefer, who built elegant hideaways in the same humble style as the Espi´rito Santo originals. While Grange is known for his opulent designs for clients like Franc¸ois Pinault and Ronald Lauder, he kept his Comporta property spare, outfitting his cabanas with Moroccan rugs and rattan furniture. The region's more modern properties-many of them summer rentals-have a casual boho vibe, with little furniture and plenty of outdoor areas for taking in the landscape.
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"Princess Caroline comes here every summer because her parents were friends with the family-not that you would notice her in flip-flops and caftan," says De Azevedo Coutinho. The French aristocrat and garden designer Louis Benech supposedly does away with shoes altogether and walks around town barefoot. Comporta is where the fashionable crowd goes off the grid, and they don't necessarily want to talk about it-particularly after a Portuguese magazine quoted someone as saying, "Comporta is where rich people go to play at being poor."
<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_left"><div class="image"></div></div>While you can't deny the socioeconomic divide between the locals (there are 3,500 full-time residents) and the summer crowds, no one seems to be treating this place as their private Petit Trianon. Perhaps because Comporta is in the Alentejo-the breadbasket of a country that is stillseen as the poor man of Europe-there's a certain strain of humility among even the wealthiest people here. "The early family members were always close with the locals. Like the fishermen and the farmers, they saw themselves as self-made and self-reliant," says Stefan Harzen, an environmental researcher who first came here from his native Germany in the '80s to study dolphins at the Sado estuary. This summer he's shuttling between here and Jupiter, Florida.
Then there's Jose´ Ribeira, who gave up his real estate career in Lisbon to live here full-time and lead horse rides on the beach. "I came because the economy was in bad shape and I was getting a divorce," explains Ribeira, who maintains 20 or so polo ponies at his handsome stables perched above the rice fields. In his rugged leather vest and dusty jeans, he handles his horses like a master but is quietly dismissive of his riding skills, vaguely telling me he "grew up on a farm." I later learn that Ribeira comes from a prosperous Portuguese family.
"We call him Jose´ of Ribeira," jokes Gonc¸alo Pessoa, a pilot for TAP Portugal who opened the hotel Sublime Comporta in May. Surrounded by piney forests, the peach-colored property is discreet but state-of-the-art: The 14 rooms and suites are equipped with oversized tubs and heated concrete floors, with fireplaces in some rooms; the grounds include a massive fire pit, an organic garden, and an infinity pool. Pessoa, who bought his land here ten years ago, gives me a casual primer on the area's social strata: The smartest family members are tucked away in the village of Brejos; Comporta Beach is the destination for day-trippers from Lisbon; Pego Beach is more exclusive; and Restaurante Sal, known simply as Sal's, is the unofficial clubhouse. Still, the Portuguese have an open-door policy when it comes to visitors. Despite the small-town feel, you don't sense any insularity or exclusivity. "We're often compared to the Irish," says businessman and horse breeder De Vasconcellos.
One afternoon, I receive a text from Isabel de Carvalho: "I have a friend who came by helicopter to Sal's and I'm joining him for lunch. You should come!" On my way to Sal's, I drive through the village of Carvalhal, where old men sit in plastic chairs at an outdoor cafe´, drinking espresso, as they've probably done every afternoon for decades, and then through a suburban-style neighborhood of anonymous white stucco houses (built by the government during the family's absence in the '70s), where a woman is collecting snails at the side of the road.
<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Lunch starts late in Comporta, around 4 p.m., so by the time I arrive, De Carvalho has left to oversee the evening's dinner shift at her restaurant. Still, there are plenty of families on the deck, lingering over their grilled fish, squid ink rice, and half-empty bottles of local rose´. For most of these multi-generational families, dining at Sal's is a weekend ritual. They dress in their Sunday beach best: polo shirts and Top-Siders for the men, flowing caftans and straw hats for the women. One grandfather is slumped over on a beach chair, the newspaper shielding his head, while his grandson plays in the sand on the nearby dunes.
On weekends, during the siesta between lunch and cocktail hour, the main intersection of Comporta village becomes clogged with BMWs, Range Rovers, and the occasional dune buggy. You might see a group of older ladies sitting on a stone wall, eating ice-cream cones, while others are stocking up on goods at the tiny supermercado-Porto wine, canned sardines, straw baskets. There are a handful of different lifestyle boutiques in town where you can pick up Moroccan pottery and Jack Rogers sandals, including De Carvalho's shop, A Loja do Museu do Arroz. In addition to caftans and printed bikinis, manager Marcello Rangoni has amassed an eclectic mix of antique garden furniture and retro light fixtures. "You wouldn't believe who comes in these days," Rangoni tells me during a cigarette break in the courtyard. "Last summer, Isabelle Adjani came, and the guy from the Rolling Stones... Ron Wood." He sounds more amused than starstruck.
The British artist Jason Martin came to Comporta after seeing a TV show about the region. "It felt like the last frontier," says Martin, who spends about ten days of the month at his atelier in an old rice factory next to De Carvalho's restaurant. "It's not that different from finding a place with cheap rent in one of London's industrial sections, but here it's rural." Martin says that the surrounding landscape has informed his painting and sculpture, and that his two young sons love spending their holidays at the beach, but he also feels the need to be part of this community. To that end, he's working on a project in Melides, a village 18 miles south of Comporta, that will include a farm, a vineyard, and a sculpture park. "You have to bring employment to the community, make the best use of the land," he says. "I spend so much time traveling on the art circuit that this feels like a very genuine life. And as long as this place doesn't get screwed up like the Algarve, it's Europe's hidden treasure."
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