Portugal

FOR NEARLY 10 years there have been plans to construct a high security prison in the Algarve in São Bartolomeu de Messines (Silves). However, the national government is still reluctant

By RUTH SHARPE ruth@portugalresident.com REMEMBER 2001 when we were trying to figure out why our favourite beach bars were forced to undergo major renovation works? Five years on, it appears

By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com THE ALGARVE’S first breast screening programme, launched last September by the Associação Oncológica do Algarve (AOA), the Algarve Oncology Association in conjunction with the Algarve University

The children of Alcantarilha Primary School need five old, but useable, computer monitors to enable them to use the computers they have been given by a Dutch hospital. Your old

A FUNDraising dinner dance in aid of the Bombeiros Voluntárias de Silves, held on September 29 at Restaurant Ponte Romana in Silves, raised 1,465 euros. The organisers, Angela and Ray,

PORTIMÃO CÂMARA is inviting residents and tourists to join them on guided walks along the Ria de Alvor in celebration of European bird watching weekend, October 8 and October 9.

FARO BEACH is the setting for the Four Oceans International Longboard Surfing Championship, taking place from October 4 to 8, close to the Centro Náutico. Other activities within the scope

EVEN THOUGH the thought of Christmas may not yet have entered your head, let The Resident be the first to jog your memory – and how better than with a

Harvest festival at All Saints’ You are welcome to join the regular congregation at the church of N. Sra da Fátima (near Quatros Estradas/Almancil), the venue for the Harvest Festival

LUXURY FIVE star resort and spa, Vila Vita, in Porches, Lagoa, was the setting for the world launch of the Porsche 911 Targa 4. Over 1,000 specialist motoring journalists from