Welcome to the homepage of Stef Van Vlierberghe.

My wife and I have spent many happy vacations with walking as main activity, and in general we try to get away as far as possible from mass tourism by booking a flight and renting a house separately.

• In Tenerife we enjoyed staying at Finca Banderas, the pool (visible on an MP4 movie) is small but warm (solar-heated), nice garden, ping-pong table, fireplace, with a nice view in the barranco, the sunny climate, 1 hour from the Teide, Granadilla in walking distance, a very cozy place.

• In Crete we appreciated the hospitality of a Kostas Kallergis during an excellent stay at Villa Christos, a gorgeous villa on the slope of a beautiful gorge near Rethymno, an excellent location if you like walking. Also had a nice stay with family in the very nice large Villa Catani (with 14m pool).
  

• In Portugal we liked a beautiful design cottage (restored watermill), last house of the street, well-hidden in the small, unspoiled Rio Ave valley in northern Portugal (quite unique setting) : Casa Moinho Da Porta.

• In Madeira we can recommend Casa Belflores and Quita d'Alegria, two neighbouring hourses above Funchal and below Monte. The casa is smaller but immersed in flowers, the quita has a 10m heated pool, both cosy places in a quiet neighbourhood. Also had a pleasant stay at Casa Rochinha, a house neighbouring the levada in Arco da Calheta (in the south-west), and another in Quinta Sabino in Caniçal (in the south-east).

• In Gran Canaria we liked El Molino, in San Nicolas (East), very peaceful (others criticise that time stood still here, we like it that way ;-).

• In La Palma we appreciated Casa Rosa, in El Paso (Central) and Casa Pilar in El Punto (North-West).
  

As a software engineer I am convinced robust software should be written in Ada (thanks to ACT the language is standard freely available in Linux distributions as part of gcc). The most convincing testimony I find Markus Kuhn's home page, and if that appeals to you, then check out  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium and the Ada Information Clearinghouse.