Features

By Paul Savill Donkey trekking has just started in the western Algarve with a series of walks with donkeys planned this summer starting from Aljezur. There are several walks going

By Stephen Anderson features@algarveresident.com Stephen Anderson is the Managing Director of Infinito Real Lda and has a broad knowledge of the real estate industry in Portugal. Having held senior positions

The latest reports on Portugal’s financial situation may have offered little confidence to UK investors. However, the bail-out funding, set to assist present difficulties, will in fact be “positive for

A 23-year-old German driver was caught speeding three times in 23 minutes in what police said was certain to be a record. The culprit in the northern town of Lübbeck,

Rachel de Boer has finally told some friends a secret she’d kept for years. She slept with stuffed socks sewn between the cups of an old bra to prevent cleavage

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

Hotels are deploying new technology to combat one of the menaces of the hospitality industry – the towel thief. The anti-theft system, which could soon be arriving in Britain, uses

By Dra Cristina Marcelino features@algarveresident.com In her monthly column, lawyer Cristina Marcelino will be presenting legal advice to readers of the Algarve Resident. In 2004, she set up her own

By BRETT HAWKINS The past decade has whizzed by in a flash, bringing massive global change along with it, much due to the fast moving pace of the technology sector,

The days of theatrical dives in football could soon be at an end following the development of revolutionary anti-dive shin pads. The pads have built-in sensory magnets and alarms and