(Indeed, there's a video of an intoxicated woman asking the filmer to 'Get out of my house.') The worst of it never made it on camera. That's when Low says she whipped out her smartphone and started filming. Then she started mocking Low for being from California.įinally, after Samantha had had a few glasses of wine and a joint, an argument broke out over getting more money in order for Low to use her kitchen, and Samantha asked Low to leave offering her her money back if she did. Then Samantha told Low the biologist that she didn't believe in science. Low says Samantha turned her nose up at the wine she'd brought. Relations were icy, if workable, but on the third night, June 22 when Samantha organized a party for the other guests, a couple who are Airbnb hosts in Spain, and some volunteer workers at the property things fell apart. 'She did not like me from the moment I arrived and proceeded to make my stay uncomfortable,' Low later told Airbnb in an email. After arriving late on the first night, Low and her host, Samantha, never got along. (Ida also tried to charge her an extra 95 euro for using the fridge.)Īnd her three-night stay in Aljezur's Costa Vicentina at a work-in-progress casa, with a 4-and-half-star rating got off to a rough start. She'd already had one less-than-stellar stay in a home rented via Airbnb: In May, early on in her trip, she found a room in a flat in Stockholm, where Low ended up hiding while her host, Ida, engaged in verbal and physical abuse with her teenage daughter while her two other daughters cried and wailed. Much of the area is undeveloped it's a national park so Low found a place to stay via Airbnb, which has hundreds of listings in the area, some for as little as $21 a night. The Algarve is full of hotels, but Low was in a coastal region called Aljezur.

In late June, with a six-week jaunt across the continent wrapping up in Portugal, the biologist from San Francisco visited a remote area of a popular tourist region called the Algarve.

It had been quite the grand European tour for Candace Low.

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