God is everywhere
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHOEVER COINED the phrase “stop the world I want to get off” tapped in to a sentiment felt increasingly by those caught up in the 21st
Fishermen’s despair
MANY PORTS across the Algarve are poorly maintained and, in some cases, appear to have been abandoned, say fishermen. The ports at Olhão, Vila Real de Santo António and Portimão
Searching for winter warmth
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHILE TODAY has been as warm as an English summer: that is – as it used to be 20 years ago – I doubt that our
The end of the Algarve fishing industry as we know it
By: Ruth Sharpe ruth@portugalresident.com SPEAK TO any fisherman in the Algarve and he will make one thing clear – the fishing industry is in crisis. Last year was alarming for
Mother Killers
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Mother Killers by John Piper DR JOHN Piper is a well-known character in the Algarve, as a surgeon and as a longstanding resident. This is
Desperately seeking dressing tables
By: Jenny Grainer jenny.grainer@portugalresident.com WHATEVER HAPPENED to dressing tables? They seemed to have disappeared from our bedrooms. Do women have to do everything in the bathroom these days? I will
Humility and faith
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com A PRIEST of wisdom and experience was speaking to us of humility, a human characteristic not encouraged by the 21st century principle of ‘me first and
Trip of a lifetime
By: Dr. Scott Miller – Veterinary surgeon dr.miller@portugalresident.com A WHIRLWIND of organisational wizardry meant, that with just three days notice, I jetted off on the trip of a lifetime to
The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge, who wants nothing more than to
Climate change and cuckoos
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com THREE YEARS ago, we had to evacuate our home during the terrible fires that swept through the Algarve. Flames towered above the boundary wall, drowning out