Algarve

THE ROTARY Club of Silves, based at Hotel Colina dos Mouros, is a small but rapidly growing club. Formed by the mother club of Portimão in 1992, it has undertaken

Contributed by Val Johnstone THE RESTAURANT in Fatacil, Lagoa, was swinging to the sound of the Pink Cadillacs recently as more than 150 people celebrated the fifth yearly dinner dance

THERE’S a new source of good quality women’s fashion in the Algarve and at lower-than-chain-store prices. Revivals is a new treasure, discretely tucked away within the Griffin Bookshop in Almancil.

WORKS to make the River Arade navigable between Portimão and Silves will cause only “temporary environmental prejudice”, according to the official Environmental Impact Report (EIA) released recently for public consultation.

The Silves Bombeiros Charity Fund received 1,000 euros from the generosity of those attending the Vale of Itchen masonic lodge ladies’ evening held at the Hotel Garbe recently. More than

MANY people are wrongly of the opinion that being a churchgoer means leading a sad and mournful life. It is often a surprise to them when they attend a service

Around 200 old motorbikes returned to the circuit in São Brás de Alportel recently. This was the second bikers’ reunion and they shared many interesting memories and stories with each

A FASHION SHOW is to take place on Saturday, April 9 at 4pm at Loulé’s Centro de Eventos in Expoalgarve, NERA, to raise money for the Associação Oncológia do Algarve

Easter was celebrated in Guia, Albufeira, with the presentation of a giant folar, a traditional Portuguese Easter cake. Hundreds of local residents were given a slice of the colossal cake