Creating a welcoming hallway
By: TERESA AZEVEDO COUTINHO features@algarveresident.com Teresa Azevedo Coutinho runs her own interior design consultancy in Lisbon and found her niche in designing holiday homes for UK and Irish clients. Her
Donkey assault
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A DONKEY in southern Mexico has been arrested for assault and battery after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas. The victims
Home sweet home…
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Loulé Câmara improves roads
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com LOULÉ CÂMARA has put a project out to public tender for the renovation of several stretches of road in the council, representing an estimated total investment
Miracle fall
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A WINDOW cleaner in New York, who fell 47-storeys from a skyscraper, has survived and is making a gradual recovery. Doctors say it is a miracle.
Strapped in and ready to go
By: SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 22 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for The Resident’s parenting
Baffled over cat’s routine
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A CAT in the UK has caused a stir in the local community with its nocturnal antics of sneaking out, walking down the road and waiting
Forgetful driver
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MAN in Germany, who had been filling up his car at a petrol station, managed to forget his vehicle and walk home, according to police.
High speed chase
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A TEENAGER was chased by police after he was spotted speeding through the German town of Moenchengladbach in a go-kart. The 18-year-old was pursued by seven
Pandora’s box
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A DIPLOMAT from Malaysia has apologised to Iraqi officials for mistaking a box of sweet pickles, sent to him as a Ramadan gift, for anthrax powder.