Letters

Dear Editor I realise that the business of running newspapers implies filling space, but I wonder if anyone else out there is beginning to wonder whether Portugal is auditioning for

Dear Editor, The Quiz and Big Raffle night in aid of AOA at Ca@sa Bar in Almancil recently was a huge success. Nearly 500 raffle tickets were sold and 80

Dear Editor, Margaret Brown’s lament on her experience of being unwell during August in the Algarve serves only to swell the ranks of the ‘grumbling expats’ she takes issue with

Dear Editor, While I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun here – and the festival currently taking place certainly sounds like that for a skydiving fan – I have to

Dear Editor, Bullfighting. It’s a folk memory of Roman games of 2000 years ago, performed throughout the old Roman Empire. Let’s remember that the ‘Ludi’ were intended to pacify the

Dear Editor, I completely concur with the sentiments expressed by Skip Bandele regarding the heavy-handed treatment by police and security teams at the Farense/Portimonense game. There seems to be no

Dear Editor I recently re-visited the Algarve for the first time in eight years and was delighted to find that my visit coincided with the Portuguese film premiere in Faro

Dear Editor, I have read many negative remarks of Portuguese treatment of animals. Allow me to set the record straight. Exiting the market in Loulé recently, my partner and I

Dear Editor I recently received an estimated electricity account from EDP. As we have used far less electricity this summer, I was surprised to receive such a large bill. On

Dear Editor, Your headline in the September 5 edition of the Algarve Resident summarizes Portugal’s problems in five words – ‘Fines, fines and more fines’. Few would deny that there