Camper vans welcome!
Dear Editor, In recent months there have been some complaints in local papers as to camper van parking on car parks and free camping, not paying anything to the local
Wild weather adds to climate confusion
The storms that battered Portugal’s entire coastline recently, plus extensive flooding in England, prolonged drought in California, extreme cold in north-eastern America and extreme heat in Australia, have created further
Golf is not ‘one swing fits all’ – or is it?
Here is a very interesting picture that clearly shows some very different swings. It is to be noted that they have all won major tournaments. And will probably win more
Six million down the drain?
Dear Editor, Headline news – €6 million to promote Algarve Tourism Abroad (last week’s edition). Is the new head of ATA (Algarve Tourism Association), Luís Carlos Gonçalves, going to address
Re: Drilling for gas will be ‘clean and safe’
Dear Editor, When I first read the headline of Len Port’s article (last week), to my mind came an old washing-powder commercial in South Africa: “It’s good, It’s clean, It’s
Highway rules made by money-grabbing megalomaniacs
Dear Editor, I cannot be the only driver on Portuguese roads to consider recent changes to the Highway Code to have little bearing on road safety. The amendments appear to
Independence for the Algarve?
Dear Editor, I think maybe I am not alone as a local Algarvio in wishing that our region, as once desired by our ancestors, could be independent from the rest
Observations on free camping
Dear Editor, In Silves, over the last few winters, large, white, campervans have wafted in like the migrating storks. They settle in the riverfront car park of Silves, fleeing from
Carvoeiro waves: community and authorities pull together
Dear Editor, I was in Carvoeiro on Monday afternoon and stayed into the early evening watching the scene unfold as the waves crashed on to the town square. Even up
Memory lane
Hello again and a Happy New Year! R.I.P. 2013 – welcome 2014. Call me superstitious, but even numbers have somehow always been better than odd ones and I am hoping