Annual battles with bureaucracy
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. All the signs were
Mechanical malfunctions
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
Winds of change in the Algarve
By MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com i>Margaret Brown is one of the Algarve Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As a keen follower
Government to back electric cars in Portugal
features@algarveresident.com PORTUGUESE CONSUMERS should be able to buy an environmentally friendly electric powered car by 2011. That is the plan announced last week by Prime Minister José Sócrates who signed
International motor festival
features@algarveresident.com CARAMULO MOTORFESTIVAL, the International Festival of Classic and Sports Automobiles, is due to take place on September 5, 6 and 7, in Caramulo in the county of Tondela, northern
Lovely long legs
features@algarveresident.com A STUDY in Poland has concluded that people with slightly longer legs are more attractive to the opposite sex. The research shows that both men and woman preferred a
Sarkosy sues
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy and his now wife, Carla Bruni, are suing low-cost airline Ryanair over a picture of them that was used in an advert.
The question of storage
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
Thrown in at the deep end
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
A country at the crossroads
By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com WHY SHOULD you want to return to the country of your birth, where your father and two brothers were murdered? Where you had been jailed twice,