Fiesa’s last days
FIESA IS closing its doors on Sunday after four months of exhibiting its 35,000 tonnes of sand art and sculpture. This year’s event was dedicated to the Seven Arts and
Film director in Portugal
JIM SHERIDAN, an acclaimed Irish film director, will be the guest of honour at a film retrospective to celebrate his work in Lisbon on October 11 and 12. Organised by
Free golf still on
A FREE golf experience can still be had until Sunday, October 7 in the Central Plaza of the Forum Algarve shopping centre in Faro. A practice putting green has been
Hacker’s method exposed
POLICE BELIEVE that a gang of eight Bulgarians and Croatians who were on the verge of withdrawing money from potentially thousands of people’s accounts using multibanco cards before they were
Lisbon Nazi at liberty
A LISBON skinhead, who attacked an immigrant, kept images of black children with the phrase ‘don’t feed the animals’ and vandalised Lisbon’s Jewish cemetery, was allowed to walk free by
Monitoring mosquitoes
MOSQUITOES WILL be under surveillance in Portugal during 2008. A monitoring study has been agreed between the Direcção-Geral de Saúde, the national health authority, and Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr.
Nature sports
CAMINHOS DA Natureza is organising several extreme activities in the most unexplored areas of the Algarve region. The programme consists of countryside crossings on mountain bikes, pedestrian routes and canoeing
New Circus at casino
MIKHAIL STEPANOV is the main performer at the New Circus shows that the Lisbon Casino is promoting for October. The Russian artist will perform his aerial show from October 16
New sports centre
LAGOA CÂMARA is building a new sports centre in Parchal at an estimated cost of four million euros. The facility will have a football pitch, running track with eight lanes,
Oktoberfest a barrel of fun
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@portugalresident.com THE SECOND annual Lisbon Oktoberfest, which celebrates Bavarian culture, music and cuisine, attracted over 1,500 visitors over three days last week. Organised by the German-Portuguese Chamber