Cosmic collision
by Clive Jackson features@algarveresident.com Clive Jackson is the Director of the Camera Obscura (next to the Castle in Tavira), specialising in education and public outreach. In our day-to-day lives, collisions
Don’t follow the herd
by Bill Blevins features@algarveresident.com Bill Blevins is Managing Director of Blevins Franks. He has specialised in expatriate investment and tax planning for over 35 years. He has written books and
Giving slim kids higher grades
Pierre Dukan, the nutritionist behind the popular but controversial Dukan diet, has suggested that France tackle child obesity by giving extra exam marks for slimness. Dukan, who has sold eight
Fishing lakes
Dear Editor, To get away from all the letters about the tolls on the A22, bad driving and other depressing topics, I would like to say that there are enjoyable
Spirit lifting sunshine
by Margaret Brown features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of the Algarve Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. Another year, another notch
99-year-old divorces wife after 1940s affair
An Italian couple are to become the world’s oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s. The Italian man, identified by
Airport’s poor set up
Dear Editor, We have students helping us with our land and therefore I quite often visit the airport to pick them up. I have not picked any up for a
A new home for Alfie
Dear Editor, Alfie found a home last week. He had been in the classifieds several times and we had been looking for a home for Alfie for a very long
A ‘southern Euro’
Dear Editor, How nice to see a letter from a Portuguese (Sr. Ferrada) in the Algarve Resident and such good English. Of course, he is right, as so many others
Greedy golf course developers
Dear Editor, The Algarve bases its rapidly failing economy on near enough 100% attracting tourists, yet my not unique opinion of Portugal/Algarve is of a litany of errors resulting in