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An aquarium in Japan is surprising visitors with its Christmas display using an eco-friendly electric eel to illuminate the lights on its holiday tree. Each time the eel moves, two

Portugal Confidential loves the holiday season! It’s a great time to be with friends and family, and anticipate all the cool new discoveries the New Year will bring. But hold

By BARRIE MAHONEY features@algarveresident.com Barrie Mahoney was a teacher, headteacher and school inspector in the UK, as well as a reporter in Spain, before moving to the Canary Islands as

Sir Cliff Richard is proving to be a hotter date than JLS, Justin Bieber and Michael Buble, as he outsells them in the calendar charts. The pop veteran, who stripped

By JUNE LOVER features@algarveresident.com After 35 years in the TV and film industry, June Lover retired to the Algarve in 2006.  Having owned a holiday property here for 12 years she

French fire fighters freed a 69-year-old woman who spent three weeks trapped in her bathroom and whose nocturnal pleas for help by tapping on pipes were ignored by neighbours. The

By Helga H. Hampton features@algarveresident.com German born Helga H. Hampton first came to the Algarve with her three children in 1972. After she and her husband retired, they became residents

By Jenny Grainer features@algarveresident.com Jenny Grainer arrived in the Algarve to live, work and raise a family in 1968. She is a freelance writer and her book ‘Portugal and the

By BILL BLEVINS features@algarveresident.com Bill Blevins is the Managing Director of Blevins Franks. He has specialised in expatriate investment and tax planning for over 35 years. He has written books

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