Ring away
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MAN in the UK saw his dreams of impressing his girlfriend vanish as a gust of wind pulled a balloon concealing an engagement ring from
State accommodation free of ghosts
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A COUNCIL in England paid a psychic to exorcise a supposed poltergeist from state housing after the distressed occupants threatened to leave if something was not
The camper van bug
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
Visiting the abandoned
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of The Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As well as Country Matters,
Alcohol injection saves patient
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com AN ITALIAN patient in Australia was deliberately injected with vodka at a hospital in Australia in order to save his life. The patient was intravenously administered
Dead wrong
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AFTER BEING declared dead at the scene of a car crash, a Venezuelan man was taken to be autopsied. When the medical examiner began, the man’s
Free your olives!
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com DO NOT be fooled into thinking that if you have no olive trees you cannot harvest your own olives. The Algarve countryside is littered with olive
Ketchup crime
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com TWO ROBBERS in Greece held up a supermarket employee armed with ketchup. They ambushed the worker as he was taking cash to the bank on Tuesday,
Monkey mourned
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com THE FIRST chimpanzee to learn sign language has died at the age of 42 of natural causes at research institute in Washington, US, where she lived.
Nazi fashion
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com POPULAR CLOTHING store, Zara, recalled a line of handbags after a customer in the UK complained that a swastika had been stitched on one corner. The