Cursed court
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A JUDGE in Canada has been disciplined for cursing during a courtroom argument with a prosecutor earlier this year. An investigation by the Canadian Judicial Council
Violent teacher awarded
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A TEACHER in Japan who threw a chair at his students was awarded the title of Super Teacher by the local education board, even after being
Chuva and chanterelles
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
Couch potato champ crowned
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A LIBRARIAN from New York was crowned the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato champion after his three opponents gave in to sleep deprivation or the need
Developers let loose inland
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,
From takeaways to takeovers
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
Make love
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MARRIED MEMBERS of a church congregation in Florida have been issued with the unusual challenge by their pastor of having sex every day for a month.
Naughty knickers
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MASSEUSES HAVE been asked to wear a padlock on their pants by a local government in Indonesia’s East Java province, in a bid to curb prostitution.
Snake cargo
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES seized more than a tonne of ratsnakes from a Vietnam Airlines flight from Bangkok last week. This is the second time in little over
Thrown in at the deep end
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