Plane buzz
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A FLIGHT from Bournemouth, southern England, was forced to return to the runway shortly after take-off because the plane flew into a huge swarm of bees.
Pousadas – a distinctly Portuguese experience
Sponsored by PDM Travel pdm@portugalresident.com “When a customer is not known by his/her name, but only by the room number, we will be far from the Pousadas’ personality,” (António Ferro
Premiere – June 1 – 10 ITEMS OR LESS
10 Items or Less Directed by: Brad Silberling Starring: Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Jonah Hill, Alexandra Berardi Genre: Drama/Comedy An aging Hollywood icon whose fear of failure has smouldered his
Romps in Rome
Sponsored by PDM Travel pdm@portugalresident.com Men looking for racy weekends rate Rome as the ripest destination for romantic romps. New research, commissioned by British Airways, shows that one in four
Spy camera
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com USHERS IN Malaysian cinemas are using night-vision goggles to spot people filming the movie with mobile phones and hand-held cameras. In the last two months, 17
The battle between good and evil
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com The Old Testament deals throughout with concepts of good and evil, as spoken by the Prophets through the word of God. Having been forbidden to eat
The wines of Bordeaux
By: Maurice Lee Cellar Master invinoveritas@portugalresident.com Bordeaux, In South West France, has dominated Western European wines ever since Eleanor of Aquitaine married the Duke of Anjou (later to become Henry
Tidying tantrum
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A YOUNG girl in Germany was so upset that her mother had asked her to clean her room that she placed a sign in her bedroom
All under one roof
UNTIL THE end of the year, six events are scheduled to take place at ExpoFaro in the Algarvean capital. Algarve Cosmética e Algarve em Forma, a beauty and fitness event,
Audio tours of Lisbon
LISBON RESIDENTS and tourists were introduced to a new initiative last week: informative audio tours of the city’s main historic districts. The pilot scheme, run by the Centro em Movimento