Algarve

AFTER LAST year’s widely covered ‘Top 20 of the World’, Channel 4’s programme A Place in the Sun narrowed the list to Europe and focused purely on capital gain. And,

VALE DO Lobo participated, once again, in Holland’s leading luxury consumer show, the Miljonair Fair, in December. Marketed as the event for the luxury lifestyle, the fair, organised by Yves

MEMBERS OF the Algarve Wine Society gathered at the Pestana Levante Hotel in Armação de Pêra recently to taste six Riesling wines, from the private cellar of the society’s new

MANY READERS of The Resident have found the Easy Call telephone cards to be of excellent value and convenient to use. We are, therefore, pleased to announce that in February

THE GABINETE de Apoio à Juventude (GAJ), the youth support office, of Albufeira Câmara is already receiving applications for its yoga classes, due to commence shortly at the municipal swimming

QUARTEIRA BASED basketball team, Os Tubarões (The Sharks), is working together with the Associação de Promoção do Desporto Adaptado (ParaSport), an association promoting adapted sporting activities, to create a basketball

IT HAS recently been reported that a scam, involving counterfeit top of the range cameras and watches, is being operated in the Algarve. At first, it appears to be a

POLICE IN Vila Real de Santo António recently carried out a series of raids on premises storing fishing equipment on Monte Gordo beach, resulting in the seizure of 1,600 doses

LAGOA’S CULTURAL association, Idéias do Levante, has started two more classes of Hatha-Yoga, led by Corinne Braga. Hatha-Yoga believes the body is a vehicle for the spirit and, over the

SHOP OWNERS in Lagoa were in for a nasty surprise last Sunday, when a 31-year-old Brazilian man went on the rampage, throwing stones at windows of shops and banks, causing