Personal peace and inner satisfaction
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. The recorded animosities of
The music maze
By SUZY TURNER online@algarveresident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 22 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for the Algarve Resident’s
Dizzy spells and giddy turns – vertigo and its relatives
By DR THOMAS KAISER drsnotes@algarveresident.com Dr Thomas Kaiser is the Medical Director of the Vale do Lobo Medical Centre and is a specialist in traditional General Practice for the whole
Female incontinence problems – do something about it!
By DR THOMAS KAISER drsnotes@algarveresident.com Dr Thomas Kaiser is the Medical Director of the Vale do Lobo Medical Centre and is a specialist in traditional General Practice for the whole
Textbook teacher
A textbook to learn English containing speeches of the newly inaugurated US President, Barack Obama, has become a best-seller in Japan. The textbook, The Speeches of Barack Obama, has sold
Sea survival
Two Myanmar (Burma) fishermen survived 25 days floating in a large ice box in a shark infested sea before being rescued by an Australian coastal patrol. Tracy Jiggins, a spokeswoman
Irish villagers fight over dead whale
Two Irish villages are fighting with each other to decide which is allowed to keep the carcass of a 20m fin whale that was stranded and died earlier this month.
The best job in the world
Australia’s state of Queensland has created what could be considered as the best job in the world as an antidote to the global economic slump. The position offers one person
In defence of my town Albufeira
Dear Editor, As a Yankee dog who has been coming to Albufeira since 1971, having had the good fortune to have acquired land and built a home in the 1980s,
Amazing experience
Dear Editor, I am writing to you regarding the unbelievable coincidence that I have learned about tonight. On August 31 2007 we travelled to Portugal for a week’s holiday in