Footie manager gets Foot in Mouth
SACKED ENGLAND football manager, Steve McClaren, fought off tough competition from other nominees including US President George W Bush to win the Foot in Mouth award on Tuesday from the
Jazz on New Year’s Eve
By: PAULO SILVESTRE paulo@portugalresident.com WOODY ALLEN and his band will be the main attraction at the New Year’s Eve party at Casino do Estoril, in Lisbon. Woody Allen and his
Time of the Gypsies party
By: PAULO SILVESTRE
Great pity
Dear Editor, Your headline “English speaker slammed at tourism conference” (The Resident, December 7 edition) is so exaggerated that it would not be out of place in a British redtop
Opening the church doors
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com A mixed group of interested people has been offered an introduction to basic Theology by Reverend Haynes Hubbard to meet on Thursday mornings either at the
Toilet trauma
A MAN spent nearly four days trapped inside a men’s toilet with no food or mobile phone at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen. When the
UK animal protection group in Algarve for neutering project
BRITISH-BASED animal protection group Kismet Account recently carried out its largest stray animal neutering project in the Algarve. A group of unpaid, voluntary, self funding vets, nurses and animal welfare
Algarve needs to be bilingual
Dear Editor, So some of those present at a tourism conference thought Ms. Compton was rude to speak in English. Just what are they doing working in the tourist industry
A pilgrimage of churches
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com HAVING JUST returned from a rural odyssey covering an area south from Monsaraz and never far from the Spanish border to visit old churches, we concluded
Annoyed and embarrassed
By: FR HAYNES HUBBARD Annoyed and embarrassed We have been in Portugal six months now and I have just returned from the post office with my baby son Caspian, where