Back by popular demand …
TIME OF My Life, the play by Alan Ayckbourn is back. After its successful run at Paderne’s Casa do Povo, the A Portada Theatre Group will, once again, be performing
Seve inaugurates new golf course
By NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com SEVERIANO BALLESTEROS has hit the first shot on the soon to be completed Quinta do Vale Golf Resort in the eastern Algarve. The symbolic gesture on
C&A opening creates a buzz
By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com FAMILY FASHION retailer C&A opened its first store in the Algarve at Forum Algarve shopping centre in Faro on Wednesday last week. Despite the bad weather,
Sócrates in Faro for Socialist Party dinner
By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com PRIME MINISTER, José Sócrates, was in Faro last Wednesday evening for a Socialist Party dinner held downtown at the Hotel Eva. The purpose of his visit
Chill out with Chill Out
THE Chill Out restaurant has been created in a beautiful, quiet environment to offer homemade food in a relaxing, special ambiance. Good food, excellent live music on a regular basis
The grass is always greener
The third round of Algarve inter club bowling league matches were played on October 28. Alvor Greens continued their winning ways with a third straight victory, this time over the
Cimpor awaits decision from Loulé Câmara
By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com CIMPOR, THE Loulé based cement factory in Cerro do Parragil, close to the A22 near Boliqueime, is awaiting a decision from Loulé Câmara in order to
The Resident’s best dressed stand
Importeco were judged by The Resident to be the most innovative stand at this year’s Better Living in Portugal exhibition, winning free advertising with the newspaper. Watching the team from
Message in a bottle
By RUTH SHARPE ruth@portugalresident.com PROFESSIONAL SAILOR Ricardo Diniz is to undertake a remarkable trip from Portimão into the heart of London, to hand Her Majesty the Queen a bottle of
RUGBY UNION
Glory days By SKIP BANDELE You know winter has really arrived when the Heineken Cup, rugby union’s Champions League, gets under way. The weekend saw Europe’s finest kicking off the

