Country Matters

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com TWO WEEKS ago I wrote about the demolition and building works being carried out on the road to Lagos Marina. The old Palácio das Conservas, otherwise

By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com THE TROUBLE with spring is that everything looks on the tatty side: clothes, house and kitchen cupboards, as well as what passes for a lawn (where

LAGOS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY Monte Ruivo, Odiáxere, Lagos Tel 282 687 334 or email laps@sapo.pt Contact: Bridget Hicks In 1980, they were the first animal sanctuary to be established in

By: Margaret Brown

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WITH SUNDAY, April 8, still two weeks away and Easter eggs in glorious technicolour whichever way you turn, those who have foresworn chocolate during the 40

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com THE SPEED with which the Bernard Matthews turkey enterprise was given an all clear after mass culling and disinfection has no equal where notifiable livestock diseases

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com ANY INSTITUTION comes in for criticism, senior executives make the decisions and the rest of us must work within those boundaries. So it is with the

By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com AS A diversion for the geriatric remnant, holidaying down Lagos way during January, the câmara laid on a firework display from Meia Praia, which attracted quite

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

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