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An eight-year-old boy desperate for a drink tried to get into a neighbour’s home by sliding down the chimney, but got stuck for more than four hours. West Valley City,

By Raoul Ruiz Martinez features@algarveresident.com Raoul Ruiz Martinez is a resident financial consultant for Finesco Financial Services Ltd., Glasgow. Finesco Financial Services Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial

by David features@algarveresident.com David Thomas is a former Assistant Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police, consultant to INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He has recently

By Scott Ross features@algarveresident.com Since 2000, Scott Ross has lived in Quarteira, where he manages a restaurant. His background is in psychology and he holds a BA from the University

A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said. The retired farmer was moving around her house with the help

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By Jenny Grainer features@algarveresident.com Jenny Grainer arrived in the Algarve to live, work and raise a family in 1968. She is a freelance writer and her book ‘Portugal and the

By Dennis Swing Greene features@algarveresident.com Dennis Swing Greene is Senior Partner and International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO s.a. If you let out furnished accommodation to tourists on a short term

By Sandra Genest-Boudreau and Christophe O. Alves features@algarveresident.com Sandra Genest-Boudreau is French-Canadian, who graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1990 before coming to the Algarve in 2002. She

By Larry Hampton features@algarveresident.com In this special travel feature, Larry Hampton, who, along with his wife Helga, has had a villa in the Algarve since 1972, takes you on a