Algarve

THE WINTER programme of activitiy courses at the Hotel Garbe commenced this week. The courses are open to residents, visiting family, friends and hotel guests. There are still a few

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

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

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

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

Portugal’s leading consumer rights association, DECO and the Association for foreign residents and visitors to Portugal (AFPOP), will be hosting an informative seminar entitled Consumers’ rights, which will be held

THE COLÉGIO Internacional Vilamoura (International College of Vilamoura) has been placed among the 10 best secondary schools in Portugal. The school achieved impressive rankings in several national newspapers, including second

If you bought a new boat over 7.5 metres in length, paid IVA or VAT in any EU member state other than Portugal and had the boat delivered direct to

The Escola Internacional São Lourenço will be holding its annual Winter Fair on the school grounds in Almancil on Sunday, November 19, from 11am until 3pm. There will be a

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