State accommodation free of ghosts
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A COUNCIL in England paid a psychic to exorcise a supposed poltergeist from state housing after the distressed occupants threatened to leave if something was not
Travelling back in time
By: MAURICE LEE features@algarveresident.com I USUALLY answer emails directly to the sender, but as I feel the two latest ones will be of interest to readers I will answer them
Weather watch
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
Wine scaremongering
by MAURICE LEE features@algarveresident.com Maurice Lee has lived in the Algarve for five years but has been visiting for 20 years. He is a retired Cellar Master and is part
Autumn proof your skin
By SHIRLEY EMILIO, Crystal Clear Skincare features@algarveresident.com The ancient Egyptians relied on a cream for spots made from bullocks’ bile, ostrich egg, olive oil, salt and plant resin, mixed to
Beautifully jolly
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
Cannabis pair
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com TWO PRISONERS on day-release from a German jail on Monday were caught red-handed tending their illegal cannabis crop in a nearby empty warehouse, according to German
Dead wrong
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AFTER BEING declared dead at the scene of a car crash, a Venezuelan man was taken to be autopsied. When the medical examiner began, the man’s
Leaves for the autumn
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com UNLIKE NORTHERN Europe, Portugal and the Algarve in particular often have very bright sunny days throughout October and November. While the UK populace batons down the
Midnight madness
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com INTELLIGENT SHOPPING trolleys may be the future, according to technology experts. Trolleys, which warn shoppers if they are buying too much unhealthy food or, at the