The approval of a tourist tax in the Algarve is a "dangerous temptation" at a time of tourism growth and recovery, said the president of the Association of Hotel Directors of Portugal (ADHP).
Can’t sleep? Nor can an increasing number of Portuguese whose increased consumption of tranquilizers and sleeping pills indicates a growing dependency.
Odiana - the lower Guadiana development association - has released a new and rather charming promotional video about the area.(HERE)
The temperature will be down to 16 degrees Celcius tomorrow with rains predicted to drench the region at the start of yet another period of unsettled weather. This is helping to fill the reservoirs but is leaving the ground sodden and much of the population depressed. 
Not content with pissing off just about everyone he comes in contact with in the Algarve, Environment Minister, João Matos Fernandes, has performed true to form after announcing just €250,000 in central government aid to repair what, at minimum, is €7 million of front line damage wreaked by recent storms and tornados - and that is just in Faro.
Environmental organisation, Zero, has blasted the Minister of the Environment for an illegal, misguided and bizarre plan to dump 30,000 m3 of pulp mill waste from the Tagus river bed onto to highly protected land.
The man suspected of stealing €115,000 from Portugal’s network of important Jewish sites (Rede de Judiarias), who has been missing since November, has cropped up in a psychiatric unit.
Many leading brands of water supplied in plastic bottles are contaminated with tiny particles that are seeping in during bottling, according to a major study involving samples from nine countries.
Researchers tested 250 bottles of water in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States.
