Dates with destiny
Dates with destiny I will be offering Tarot readings as part of a fundraising event on February 25, at Café Bar Bacchus, Porches Pottery, in Porches (near Lagoa). On May
Toll station
Toll station We had a very unpleasant experience last November. We came from Beja and took the motorway to the Algarve. We passed the tollgate and wondered where to pay.
Car boot sale raises money for Riding for the Disabled
Riding for the Disabled in the Algarve (RDA) would like to thank Ron Martin and Dee Russell for all their effort and organisation in raising more than 1,400 euros, which
Driving in Spain
Living in the Algarve, a large number of our friends regularly drive through Spain to and from UK and Northern Europe. With a large number of reported hi-jack attempts in
One raisin, two raisins … 12 raisins!
I’m a regular reader of your newspaper and wondered if you could help me with a question to which I’m having trouble finding an answer. On New Year’s Eve, at
Cruel death of a dog
A court in Coimbra has fined two young men, aged 21 and 22, charged with throwing a dog from the eighth floor of a block of apartments in April 2003.
Hello Resident folks!
I suppose you were wondering why I had not contacted you … Well, I was expecting to receive a call from you to tell me it was a huge mistake!
Upsurge of drug-related
I have lived in the delightful town of Loulé for many years and have always felt comfortable with the calm atmosphere and almost complete absence of crime, most particularly serious
Words to remember
Writing to your own newspaper is unusual I am sure, but having read Skip Bandele’s offering in The Resident issue of December 16, I felt moved to put into print
Skip under the spotlight … again
Dear Skip, I have read your article ‘Out of Africa’ (The Resident, December 2 edition), which I found most confusing. Do you know Africa at all? Have you lived there?