International golf travel market may return
EIGHT YEARS after it was first hosted in Vilamoura, one of the most important events in the golfing sector, the International Golf Travel Market, may return to the Algarve. An
Show that you care this Christmas
“YOU WILL find us, just follow the directions, when you get close, you will hear the dogs barking,” I was assured on the telephone. After coming off the A22 at
Looking back and looking forward
A GROUP of golfers who have raised 350,000 euros for local charities since first getting together on Vilamoura courses in 1998 are now looking forward to their 2007 event. Every
Storms hit charity animal shelter
Fifteen dogs, all rescued by the Associação Bamboo in Guadalupe, Budens, were made homeless by the heavy winds and rain during the torrential storms on Friday. A 40sqm wooden chalet,
Major home fair in Faro
ALGARDECOR, THE Algarve’s answer to the Ideal Home Exhibition, is now on at EXPOFARO, located alongside the municipal swimming pool complex in Faro. The exhibition space totals 3,000sqm and visitors
The Algarve goes on red alert for World Aids Day
World Aids Day today (Friday, December 1), is an opportunity for people to unite in the fight against HIV and Aids. The National Aids Trust is encouraging people worldwide to
Making Christmas simple – part two
THE RESIDENT will be publishing a further guide to all things Christmassy in the next issue. All hotel and restaurant owners, schools, charities, associations, câmaras, shops and so on, are
They had the time of their life
Following their second and final performance of Alan Ayckbourn’s play Time of my Life, which played to a full house at the Municipal Auditório in Lagoa on Sunday, November 19,
Making your company healthy in 2007
ARE YOU working hard, paying your taxes and coming away with little to show for it at the end of the year? If so, then the one-day business seminar in
Thousands protest in Lisbon
THOUSANDS OF demonstrators took to the streets of Lisbon on November 25, protesting against government rationalisation policies for the civil service. Organised by the Portuguese Transport and General Workers’ Union,

