Breast gang detained
French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of Euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts. The 14-year old girls were
Olhanense thanks
Dear Editor At a recent Olhanense football match I met a group of 12 British holidaymakers eager to find out how they could get tickets for the match against V.Guimarães.
The French Connection
By JUNE LOVER features@algarveresident.com After 35 years in the TV and film industry, June Lover retired to the Algarve in 2006. Having owned a holiday property here for 12 years she
Vuvuzela, new buzz word
The vuvuzela has blasted its way into the Oxford Dictionary of English for the first time after becoming the sound of the 2010 World Cup. The word has only been
Best places to lose your wallet
Researchers found almost half of wallets misplaced at cultural centres were retrieved by their owners. The social experiment, carried out across five British cities, found that a third of wallets
A Brighton summer
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
Memories we cannot erase
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. With leaves hanging limp
Euro rate strengthens under coalition government
by David Kerns features@algarveresident.com Head of Private Clients for Moneycorp, one of the UK’s leading foreign exchange and international money transfer providers. The new coalition government’s first ‘emergency’ budget was
Jambo! Welcome to magical Kenya
by Sophie Daud features@algarveresident.com Algarve resident Sophie Daud, 19, has embarked on an adventure to Kenya in Africa. She has joined 15 other volunteers in a project supported by the
Falling prices letter 1
Dear Editor, Regarding the claims of a survey conducted by the Post Office UK and published in the Algarve Resident that the average cost of a three-course meal with wine in