Welcome to our January edition - and Happy New Year to you! We have lots of news and reviews for you this month, including an update on how Zara is settling in.

Last week, the Library of Lagos received the presentation of books and a film covering Cape Verde. There is a very large Cape Verde community in both the Algarve and Portugal.

Our December edition is just waiting for you! And it's packed with features, photographs and news! And "Zara? - Who's Zara?" You'll have to look inside to find out!!

Sian Richards is a bilingual singer/ songwriter/ acoustic musician from Swansea, South Wales (UK). In the last 9 years she has released a number of tracks in both English and Welsh, with many becoming track of the week on BBC Radio Cymru, as well as being played on other radio stations throughout the world.

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we send out this edition of Snapshot! to you this month. We had to say goodbye to our darling Kat the Dog on the 23rd October. She fought the infection so bravely but it was just too much for her.

Well, September was a month to forget! Kat the Dog has been very ill - you can find out all about it inside the new edition. Spoiler Alert - she's still fighting hard and we are hoping she can make a full recovery...

We have 10 double passes (entrance for 2 people) to the International Ocean Film Tour to give away for free! The event returns to Portugal on October 13th, with a screening in Portimão at Algarcine, at 7pm.

We can finally tell you all our exciting news about Alyson's latest book, Kat the Dog... we've been dying to tell you all for months about this ... !! But ... you'll have to look inside to find out what has happened.