Sophie Sadler met retired NASA scientist Paul Bookout, who is enjoying the tranquillity of life in Portugal after a career of launching rockets and facilitating space exploration.

Former Liverpool striker John Aldridge is a familiar face around Praia da Luz. When he isn't playing golf, you might have seen him hanging out in one of the bars, enjoying a cold beer and not realise he is a former premiership footballer with a career total of 474 goals.

The slightly unimaginatively named but stunningly beautiful Centro Region offers a wealth of delights to be discovered.

André Guerra dos Santos achieved success and local stardom when the movie adaptation of his screenplay, A Fada do Lar, drew record numbers to the cinema in Lagos. 

An increasing amount of his work is both fascinating and, due to world events, vitally important.

Bruno Gonçalves leads a strange double life. By day, he is an environmental engineer for the Lagoa Camâra. By night, he is ‘The Storm Chaser’!

“It should be a birthright; humans used to receive knowledge from their elders on sourcing, preserving, and preparing food. I want to create a new generation who have that intuition.”

Three young entrepreneurs have developed a local brand that will have us all saying cheers.

Let me tell your love story - Algarve Wedding Celebrant

He was diagnosed with HIV in the late 80s when the media first started reporting on AIDS. At that time, Tom knew it could be a death sentence.

This is Lewis’s Dance Crew, led by charismatic former West End Star Lewis Davies, who counted Michael Jackson as an admirer and is now engaging Algarve residents in this addictive dance style.

“Our rehabilitation centre never was and never will be a recruitment centre.”

If I told you that eating insects could help save the planet, would it entice you to feast on mealworm bites?

It would seem that The World is Not Enough for Vanda, who comes From Russia with Love.

No one sitting outside the innocuous cafe where I enjoyed a Galão with James Plaskitt could have imagined my interviewee once walked the corridors of Westminster, stood at the House of Commons dispatch box and was at the heart of the Blair government.