A dream about to be dashed
By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments
A wonderful illusion
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 Algarve Resident’s
Bread robbery
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com TWO AUSTRALIANS were jailed earlier this week after they attempted to steal a bag of bread rolls from a Melbourne restaurant. During the robbery, Benjamin Jorgensen
Cult members abandon doomsday bunker
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com FOURTEEN MEMBERS of a doomsday cult in Russia have abandoned their underground bunker where they had been hiding for around six months awaiting the end of
Disruption of the countryside
BBy 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. WHILE THANKING God every
Living dead
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com PARISHIONERS IN Berlin, Germany, were given an opportunity to lie in an open grave by their local vicar, in an attempt to escape the stresses and
Make love
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MARRIED MEMBERS of a church congregation in Florida have been issued with the unusual challenge by their pastor of having sex every day for a month.
Naughty knickers
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MASSEUSES HAVE been asked to wear a padlock on their pants by a local government in Indonesia’s East Java province, in a bid to curb prostitution.
Red and ripe tomatoes
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
The danger of the dreaded e-word
By MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments