Happy 10th birthday, Medal!
TEN YEARS on and Medal, insurance brokers in Portimão, are still a name you can trust when it comes to insurance. Celebrating their 10th anniversary this month, managing director, Henrique
LET’S WALK
Monday 26 – Around Caldas de Monchique. From 10.30am. A moderately easy 2 hour circular walk along the river valley and through the countryside, with great views to the coast.
Medronho production hampered by fires
PRODUCTION OF aguardente de medronho, a liqueur made from the fruit of strawberry trees and one of the great traditions of the Algarvean hills, has been greatly damaged due to
Modern-day Santas
AS CAPTAIN Peter (Cain) reported on Kiss Fm Algarve, he recently returned from England, travelling from Newcastle airport, with a planeload of Santa Clauses. As proof, he took this photograph
Old folk enjoy outing to Vilamoura Marina
AROUND 500 old folk from the borough of Castro Marim recently enjoyed an outing to Vilamoura Marina, organised by the council in an effort to combat loneliness and isolation among the
Politics v sport
Recent public statements by the President of Iran stating that the holocaust is a myth has prompted French MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit to call for Iran’s exclusion from the 2006 World
Portugal’s first Million Dollar representative
NOVEMBER 19 saw “Million Dollar Hole-in-One” have its first hole-in-one winner in the Algarve, with Colin Mocock achieving this at Parque da Floresta Golf and Leisure resort. Colin Mocock from
Presidential elections vote turnout could beat all records
AS MANY as six million Portuguese could turn out at the ballot box to vote for the country’s next President in January. According to a survey carried out by Eurosondagem,
School delights audience
WHEN DAVID Higginbottom arrived at St Julian’s with the idea of creating a full orchestra at the St. Julian’s School, many doubted this would be possible. A couple of years
Pesky bugs, they’re just full of hot air
IN DENMARK and Germany, the hot air treatment has been used on a large-scale since the 30s to control wood destroying insects in roof constructions. Officially acknowledged as a method