Fountain frolics
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com AN ITALIAN woman took a dip in the famous Trevi fountain, in Rome, last week – in her birthday suit! She was hot and decided to
Up in smoke
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com FIREFIGHTERS WERE called to a house that was ablaze after there was an explosion from inside. The occupant of the house was found in the garden
The evolution of our world
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com EVER SINCE I was a small child, the hours between sunrise and breakfast have been the most precious of the day and, although more often than
Spring in the ‘Allgarve’
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com THE TROUBLE with spring is that everything looks on the tatty side: clothes, house and kitchen cupboards, as well as what passes for a lawn (where
Branson brush off
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com AFTER THREATENING his two wives, as a joke, that he would marry a third woman if they did not stop fighting, a Saudi man lost part
Cow cleanser
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com TEACHERS IN Maharashtra, India, poured cow urine on low-caste students, last week, in order to cleanse them and extinguish the evil inside them. Upper caste, Sharad
Hitler honour
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE ARRESTED a man in Canada for wandering the streets of Nanaimo, British Columbia, wearing nothing but a swastika on his chest. He told locals that
Algarve Animal Associations
LAGOS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY Monte Ruivo, Odiáxere, Lagos Tel 282 687 334 or email laps@sapo.pt Contact: Bridget Hicks In 1980, they were the first animal sanctuary to be established in
You make me feel like dancing
By: Ruth Sharpe
The need to apologise
By: Mike Johnson mike.johnson@portugalresident.com SAYING SORRY used to be the method of apologising. I was brought up to believe you only said it when you truly regretted some deed or