Vila do Bispo online
THE WEBSITE for Vila do Bispo Câmara is now up and running. The câmara commissioned internet website design company Algarve Digital to develop the website, which regularly posts news and
Woman killed
A Portuguese woman was killed instantly when she lost control of her jeep and hit a tree in the centre of Loulé at around 9am last Thursday. It is believed
A New Year’s solution
MANY PEOPLE take up resolutions in the New Year, with three-quarters planning to get fit. Pilates studio owner Michelle Goyens wants to make sure that resolution turns into a solution.
Desperately seeking dressing tables
By: Jenny Grainer jenny.grainer@portugalresident.com WHATEVER HAPPENED to dressing tables? They seemed to have disappeared from our bedrooms. Do women have to do everything in the bathroom these days? I will
Fishermen’s despair
MANY PORTS across the Algarve are poorly maintained and, in some cases, appear to have been abandoned, say fishermen. The ports at Olhão, Vila Real de Santo António and Portimão
Humility and faith
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com A PRIEST of wisdom and experience was speaking to us of humility, a human characteristic not encouraged by the 21st century principle of ‘me first and
Join PDM!
If this brief guide to the two beautiful and historical Andalusian cities of Granada and Cordoba has whetted your appetite for more, you can join PDM on March 5 to
Mother Killers
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Mother Killers by John Piper DR JOHN Piper is a well-known character in the Algarve, as a surgeon and as a longstanding resident. This is
Searching for winter warmth
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHILE TODAY has been as warm as an English summer: that is – as it used to be 20 years ago – I doubt that our
The end of the Algarve fishing industry as we know it
By: Ruth Sharpe ruth@portugalresident.com SPEAK TO any fisherman in the Algarve and he will make one thing clear – the fishing industry is in crisis. Last year was alarming for