A degree of negotiation
By DR MICHAEL LOWRY features@algarveresident.com Dr Michael Lowry is an experienced parent and educator, who regularly visits his Algarve home in Tavira. His work over many years in universities has
Alternative tourism
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A TOUR company in Rio de Janeiro could see its licence stripped away for providing tourists with an alternative tour of life in the city’s slums,
Bandits blighted by bikers
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com TWO THIEVES were left regretting their decision to rob a club in Sydney, Australia, after they realised a little too late that the venue was packed
Combat night time fatigue
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com CAR DESIGNERS are currently probing new ways to avoid one of the most dangerous hazards of night driving; drowsiness and falling asleep at the wheel. To
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