ANGUS SIMPSON has been one of STV’s most familiar faces for decades, including presenting Scotland Today.
He’s now a producer and presenter for STV2.
Angus, 58, has two sons, Mark, 30, and David, 29, with wife Audrey.
He lives a stone’s throw from STV’s Clydeside studios.
PORTUGAL is by far our family’s most special holiday place.
Audrey and I first went 33 years ago on honeymoon and fell in love with the country. The service, the food and the sheer warmth of the welcome instantly won us over.
We stayed in Quarteira, which back then was just a couple of hotels, a short strip of about 10 bars and restaurants and an ice cream hut on the beach.
It soon became a built-up resort, so we moved along the coast a bit to a fishing village called Burgau.
Back then it was tiny and unspoiled.
It was the sort of place where you’d get used to losing the electricity or the water supply each day. The boys used to help the fishermen paint their boats and share sardines with them on their doorsteps.
Now it has become a bit more developed – the authorities have even put in a zebra crossing although there still isn’t very much traffic.
The other wonderful thing that always pulls us back is the weather, it’s almost always sunny. We’re going back next month and we know it’ll still be lovely and warm by day, if a little cooler at night.
Both of the boys live abroad now – Mark in America and David in Australia – so that has added to the travelling.
Mark used to live in Singapore and that is the place that really blew my mind.
Although it is a tiny little island it is run to perfection, immaculately clean and ridiculously friendly. It has everything you could possibly want in terms of food and activities.
The place that surprised me most in America is Seattle. I didn’t expect much because of its rainy climate, but it was one of the friendliest, most interesting places I’ve ever been.
It’s the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix and there’s an incredible music museum. It was also where Starbucks was founded and we went to the very first branch.
Funnily enough, it wasn’t very different – apart from the massive queues as everyone wanted a coffee where it all began!
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