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,
Free your olives!
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com DO NOT be fooled into thinking that if you have no olive trees you cannot harvest your own olives. The Algarve countryside is littered with olive
Monkey mischief
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MAN who smuggled a marmoset monkey on to a flight from Peru to the US under his hat was questioned by police on arrival at
Navigating the Algarve
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com HAVING READ that the Algarve is suffering a ‘weak drought’, I wondered for how long the region must continue without rain for the drought to become
Popular thefts
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A GERMAN book fair has discovered an ingenious indicator of public interest in books by gauging which are most stolen. These books usually end up on
Putting Eggs in one basket
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
Restoration is back in vogue
By: TERESA AZEVEDO COUTINHO features@algarveresident.com THE VOGUE for buying brand new homes abroad is being rivalled by the returning trend to buy a wreck to restore. The demand for dereliction