Cowboys and indians
By: SKIP BANDELE features@algarveresident.com Skip Bandele moved to the Algarve 10 years ago and has been with The Resident since 2003. His writing reflects views and opinions formed while living
Fasting for health and happiness
By: DR. THOMAS KAISER features@algarveresident.com Dr Thomas Kaiser is the Medical Director of the Vale do Lobo Medical Centre and is a specialist in good traditional General Practice for the
Today’s weighty matters
By: SKIP BANDELE features@algarveresident.com WHEN I was little my mother taught me not to stare or point at grossly overweight people, explaining that their condition was a result of a
Anything goes
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,
Treading the boards – again!
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
Building repairs are child’s play
German artist Jan Vormann has taken an unusual step in making voluntary repair works to buildings in New York using children’s building blocks instead of conventional building materials. Exposed brick
Nature has its ways …
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. Everything has a life
Stuff for the memory store
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
What a load of bull
An irate artist from Brazil has launched his own protest against the travelling Cow Parade exhibition currently on display in São Paulo by including his own randy bulls in the
A reader’s poem
It’s a garden not an orchard, Though many fruits are growing there, Oranges and Apples, Avocado, Plum and Pear. Over in the corner there are Lemons, there, you see? And