Senior Product Lead at Pura Aventura, Chris has led the development of new community-based vacations in Costa Rica, Patagonia, Spain, the Azores and more.
Chris is a Senior Product Lead at Pura, which is a fancy way of saying he gets to travel a lot looking for fantastic new adventures for you to take and wonderful people for you to meet. Poor him. His recent travel experience includes a 1,000-mile journey back and forth across the border in remotest Patagonia, a coast-to-coast road trip in Costa Rica (despite somehow managing to break a bone in his right hand whilst fly fishing en route), a foray deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon to meet a trailblazing female guide, a 4x4 adventure across the Bolivian Altiplano and an overland journey from his front door to Valencia.
His first visit to Argentina in 2013 inspired Chris to obsessively teach himself Spanish. He's since put this to good use by creating a range of No-Fly holidays to Catalonia, three new walking routes in Andalucía and our first island breaks to Tenerife, La Gomera and Menorca. In 2024, he expanded this island repertoire to the Azores, though his Portuguese is still a work in progress. Chris is passionate about creating holidays rooted in local communities and built around the special people he meets on the way. When not traveling, he's often found walking his beagle in the South Downs or squeezing one more plant into his garden in (sometimes) sunny Sussex.
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Video: Alentejo - A Journey Across Portugal (3:13)
From the Spanish border to the clear blue ocean, the Alentejo is a sunny place of Mediterranean forest, olive groves and hilltop villages.
But this is not just a journey of pretty landscapes. At every turn, countryside lifestyles survive away from the tourist gaze, none more so than in the rural heartland of the world's largest cork-producing area.