Kidnapping is so out of place in the village of light

THE sleepy village of Praia Da Luz is the ideal spot to taste a slice of heaven on earth. It is the last place you’d expect to be the scene of a kidnapping.

Two years ago, I arrived in Praia Da Luz with the same goal as Gerry and Katie McCann — to get away from it all.

The quiet, unspoiled coastal settlement was billed as the perfect place to escape from modern life. But now, with the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, that idyllic notion has been shattered.