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Portugal Confidential is always looking for the newest of the new, and the coolest of the cool.  Recently we stumbled upon a cool new restaurant and a cool new product that

A man has been arrested at Miami (US) international airport with seven exotic snakes and three tortoises stuffed into his trousers. The US Transportation Security Administration said the man had

By Liz Griffiths features@algarveresident.com Liz Griffiths has a degree in Journalism and Editorial Design and, for six months, joined the Algarve Resident team as a news reporter and feature writer.

There was good news and bad news for the Portuguese property market in the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors/Ci (RICS) Portuguese Housing Market Survey. However, according to the statistics,

By Dr. Eduardo Serra Jorge features@algarveresident.com In his column, Lawyer Eduardo Serra Jorge from lawyers firm Eduardo Serra Jorge & Maria José Garcia – Sociedade de Advogados, R.L., will be

Thousands of people gathered at the Oulu (Finland) marketplace to watch the contestants from around the world enthusiastically demonstrating their masterful command of invisible instruments. According to the judges, musical

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. Several ancient pre-Christian festivals

The deadline for entering photographs of your dogs is now closed. We hope to see you all at Scruffts on September 18 when an independent panel of judges, including a

by David features@algarveresident.com David Thomas is a former Assistant Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police, consultant to INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He has recently

By Jenny Grainer features@algarveresident.com Jenny Grainer arrived in the Algarve to live, work and raise a family in 1968. She is a freelance writer and her book ‘Portugal and the