Colonic hydrotherapy detox
By: SOPHIE ELLIS features@algarveresident.com LOOKING FOR something new to spice up your detoxing regime? Look no further. As 2008 gets underway and it is not yet summer, you may be
Crotch law
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com ITALIAN COURTS have issued a landmark ruling that outlaws men from scratching their crotches in public. The ruling was made after a man from Como appealed
Developers let loose inland
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of The Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As well as Country Matters,
EU to crack down on motoring offences
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s Transport Committee has voted in favour of a draft directive that will see drivers who commit offences while in other countries, caught and
Fireman fraud
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A FIREMAN in Japan has lost his job after it transpired he had been driving ambulances and fire engines for the past 20 years without a
Lush lashes
features@algarveresident.com GUERLAIN’S mascara, Le2 de Guerlain Mascara, promises the ‘dream formula’ of volume, length, curve and definition. The new concept features one tube with two brushes. The first fills the
Nice peas Norma
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 changeable weather
By 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. The perishing spell of
The importance of saying ‘No’
By ANDREA CLIFFORD-POSTON features@algarveresident.com Andrea Clifford-Poston is an educational psychotherapist and author of Tweens: What to Expect From and How to Survive Your Child’s Pre-Teenage Years (published by Oneworld), When
The shape of things to come
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