How you can get more distance from your driver
By Seán Hawker Step 1 Keep your head behind the ball. This is how you create leverage. Think about skipping stones across the water. When you release the stone, your
Medical Tourism – The Algarve as a destination of choice
Medical tourism has been a growing field of interest worldwide. Since the Roman occupation, patients have been known to travel to other countries looking for medical advice and assistance. Nowadays
A Place in the Country
By Lynne Booker An idyllic setting surrounded by rolling green hills, cork oaks and olive trees and only a 10-minute drive to the Algarve’s most attractive city – Tavira. Herdade
IRS fiscal year 2012 – Tax Benefits & their limits
By Dennis Swing Greene The budget for 2012 has introduced some global limits for the deductible provisions and for tax benefits (table 1). Although lower income brackets appear to have
Drought and the Mediterranean Garden
Article taken from The Dry Gardening Handbook written by Olivier Filippi, supplied by www.mediterraneangardensociety.org
Fibre in the Diet
By Elizabeth Hartland What is dietary fibre and why is it important? Fibre itself has no nutritional value but the foods in which it is found have vitamins and minerals.
Protecting your savings
By Gavin Scott Most of us have worked hard to build up our savings. When contemplating the options for investing and holding their money, most people’s first concern is to
A life and death of incident and romance
By Lynne Booker Pedro I – Emperor of Brazil (1798 – 1834) The Rossio is the popular name for Praça de D. Pedro IV in central Lisbon. Atop the column
Sanity has been maintained
By Margaret Brown Be warned, a confidence trickster who scammed the Boss and me at the Retail Park in Portimão last summer is now at work in the Retail Park
A time for celebration
By Sue Hall Since the early part of the 20th century there has been a day when people have come together to celebrate and mark the changes that have occurred