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.
Red tape flying high
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com ARRIVING IN Portugal with two dogs, two horses, an English registered car and a nine foot six inch caravan that was illegal, we have spent the
Lloyd Webber leads march to Moscow
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
Email the easy way
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 fashion
Ford babies
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com MORE THAN 500 children have been born under the Bebé Ford campaign in Portugal since it started in May 2007. This campaign, which will end this
Inside out – embracing outdoor living
By TERESA AZEVEDO COUTINHO features@algarveresident.com
Mobile home
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com TO COMBAT soaring house prices and cramped living conditions where many tenants share the same apartment, a Hong Kong designer has come up with a cheap
Prison break
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com AN ITALIAN prison in Volterra is diversifying and is now offering special restaurant evenings for local people and the opportunity for those travelling in the area
The garden of France
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
The wrong trousers
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