Always expect the unexpected
By MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments
Beetroot – the new superfood
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Broad beans
By PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Mystery house mate
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com AN UNKNOWN woman was found to be secretly living inside a closet in Japan, after the owner of the property set up a hidden camera to
One person’s lullaby is another’s insomnia
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. AS AN escape from
Sweet potatoes
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul Mckay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Winter is the time to sort out your soil!
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Corpse confusion
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com THERE WAS much confusion on a German train when passengers mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gory zombie for a murder victim and called
Lucky catch
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com TWO MEN and a woman who used a cardboard box to break into more than 200 fast-food places in Canada have finally been caught. The gang
Million note
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A MAN in the US has been arrested for handing over a fake one million dollar note to a cashier in a supermarket and asking for