Major changes at Praia da Rocha beachfront
WORK TO refurbish and reorganise Praia da Rocha beachfront is well underway and should be finished by the beginning of June, in time for the summer season. This is the
Mendes Bota promotes desalination
SPEAKING AT the European Council in Strasbourg, as part of a debate about water management, MP José Mendes Bota, Algarve leader of the Social Democratic Party, defended desalination as a
Museum jazz
IN COLLABORATION with the Friends of São Brás Museum, the Triple Bass Music Agency will, once again, be bringing jazz to the Algarve. Following on from their hugely successful Summer
Security debated in Faro
MORE THAN 150 participants attended a congress held at Faro’s Conservatório Regional do Algarve recently to debate the issue of security in Portugal and in particular in the Algarve. The
A book for success, a book no company should be without
WHEN JORGE A. Vasconcellos e Sá wrote Strategy Moves, on the flyleaf he reminded us of the words of General Douglas MacArthur: “In war there is no substitute for victory.”
Sheraton Hotel holds tribute to American Club president
• Ambassador to Portugal Al Hoffman and wife Dawn A SPECIAL gala dinner was held last week at the Sheraton Hotel in honour of Blaine Tavares, who is retiring after
Algarve resort at millionaires fair in Holland
VALE DO Lobo participated, once again, in Holland’s leading luxury consumer show, the Miljonair Fair, in December. Marketed as the event for the luxury lifestyle, the fair, organised by Yves
Snapshot of three cities
A PHOTOGRAPHIC exhibition, shown simultaneously in Porto, Lisbon and São Paulo, Brazil, opened on January 20. The exhibition, entitled ‘Here and There’, is organised by the Centro Universitario Senac (Brazil)
Algarve Wine Society tastes German Riesling wines
MEMBERS OF the Algarve Wine Society gathered at the Pestana Levante Hotel in Armação de Pêra recently to taste six Riesling wines, from the private cellar of the society’s new
Trash and treasure
Associação Benéfica dos Súbditos Britânicos em Portugal AN EXTRAORDINARY annual general meeting for the election of a chairperson for the association will be held at 10.30am on Thursday, February 2,