Adverse publicity for the tourist industry
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 laying of poison
A joyful resurgence of life
By: MARGARET BROWN country@the-resident.com Margaret Brown is one of The Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As well as Country Matters,
Upgrading yesterday’s computer technology
Margaret Brown is one of The Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As well as Country Matters, she also writes Point
let’s get cooking
By: ROSEMARY LADLE AFTER THE culinary excesses of the festive season and countless resolutions to lose a pound or three, it may not be the best time of year to
Changes in the countryside
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com INTO THE autumn, the sun is slipping south and, after recent heavy rain, the countryside is regenerating at a remarkable rate. Grass, like fuzz on a
A greater love for animals
By: MARGARET BROWN country@portuugalresident.com FOR THE second time in 20 years I have seen a quail. It is a shy and vocal little bird that may be heard but not
Fond memories for a calmer time
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com HAVING JUST come back from an 18-day visit to west Wales, during which the two of us were immobilised with arthritis, in no time at all
Watching the boats sail by
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com HUNDREDS OF miles as the Crow flies from the sunny Algarve and holidaying under a veil of rain. West Wales is at its most beautiful away
Anything but straightforward
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com Apart from tarumatic happenings in and around Praia da Luz during the month of May, things have been anything but straightforward in the Brown household. Years
Scientists and storks
By MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com DRINKING COFFEE outside, enjoying an occasional burst of sunshine on a windy morning last week, there was quite a chill in the air, which reminded me