Opinion

By Raoul Ruiz Martinez features@algarveresident.com Raoul Ruiz Martinez is a resident financial consultant for Finesco Financial Services Ltd., Glasgow. Finesco Financial Services Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial

By TOM CALLAN The late spring Portuguese sun conveys its distinctive welcome as I leave the aluminum cocoon of our aircraft. Bedraggled tourists strain to tether hyperactive, squealing offspring and

By Stephen Anderson features@algarveresident.com Stephen Anderson is the Managing Director of Infinito Real Lda and has a broad knowledge of the real estate industry in Portugal. Having held senior positions

By Dra Cristina Marcelino features@algarveresident.com In her monthly column, lawyer Cristina Marcelino will be presenting legal advice to readers of the Algarve Resident. In 2004, she set up her own

A 23-year-old German driver was caught speeding three times in 23 minutes in what police said was certain to be a record. The culprit in the northern town of Lübbeck,

Hotels are deploying new technology to combat one of the menaces of the hospitality industry – the towel thief. The anti-theft system, which could soon be arriving in Britain, uses

Rachel de Boer has finally told some friends a secret she’d kept for years. She slept with stuffed socks sewn between the cups of an old bra to prevent cleavage

The latest reports on Portugal’s financial situation may have offered little confidence to UK investors. However, the bail-out funding, set to assist present difficulties, will in fact be “positive for

By Sandra Genest-Boudreau and Christophe O. Alves features@algarveresident.com Sandra Genest-Boudreau is French-Canadian, who graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1990 before coming to the Algarve in 2002. She