Opinion

By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com UNLIKE NORTHERN Europe, Portugal and the Algarve in particular often have very bright sunny days throughout October and November. While the UK populace batons down the

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com POLICE IN Germany have arrested a 60-year-old landlord and charged him with invasion of privacy after a tenant discovered bugging devices while she was cleaning her

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AN EXPERT chocolatier has resigned from UK chocolate manufacturer, Thorntons, after he sabotaged a rival company’s chocolate. It is believed that he squashed truffles at Hotel

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

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

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A TEENAGER in the US, who stopped an out of control school bus last week, was later rewarded with detention. Amanda Rouse, aged 15, was sitting

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A SINGAPORE man has been jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com ISLANDERS FROM Lesbos are seeking to ban Greek gay rights groups from using the word lesbian in their names because they believe they are insulting their

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