Opinion

Portugal Confidential loves the holiday season! It’s a great time to be with friends and family, and anticipate all the cool new discoveries the New Year will bring. But hold

By Raoul Ruiz Martinez features@algarveresident.com Raoul Ruiz Martinez is a consultant for Finesco Financial Services Ltd., Glasgow and regulated to advise on capital investments in both the UK and throughout

Venezuela’s former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, closed her Twitter account after being mocked for confusing the Koreas with China. Concerned by North Korea’s artillery attack on a South Korean island,

A man who ate nothing but potatoes for two months has said he plans to celebrate the end of his restrictive diet with a meal of beef tacos and grilled

By BARRIE MAHONEY features@algarveresident.com Barrie Mahoney was a teacher, headteacher and school inspector in the UK, as well as a reporter in Spain, before moving to the Canary Islands as

By Helga H. Hampton features@algarveresident.com German born Helga H. Hampton first came to the Algarve with her three children in 1972. After she and her husband retired, they became residents

A Church of England bishop apologised for suggesting that the marriage of Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton would only last seven years and that the couple were “shallow

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