Survivor, Sofi Chevalier left her home in the Algarve to take part in a gruelling french TV challenge. Leaving her young daughter for two months, just weeks after her marriage ended, Sophie Sadler chats to the kite-surfing action woman to find out how the experience has given her a new direction.

This unique sport allows you to explore the Algarve coastline from a new perspective.

The Surf Experience traded laughs for money when they hosted their stand-up comedy night at Mullens.

A role model to the hundreds of kids, including Spurs ́ Eric Dier, that have passed through his sports centre, he played 1st class Rugby for WASPS and London Welsh. Despite this when he came to Burgau on holiday, he was looking for a new path.

Forty-two years ago Gwen Morris is credited by many as having brought classical ballet to Lagos.

This is an updated version of the original article which I wrote in 2018 for the Lagos magazine. It featured in the May edition of the Vilamoura magazine.

As part of the organising team behind the 300km ALUT trail run, she tells us how she became an athlete and why trail running is good for the Algarve.

When 81-year-old Manuel Afonso took over running the BP petrol stations (then Mobil) more than four decades ago he sold 1000 litres a day, now on average he sells 20,000.

I ask Ingrid if the Marina is attracting too many people to come for their breakfast and not enough serious sailors?

The school will embody a new technological approach to 21st-century learning, whilst staying true to core old fashioned-values and the British curriculum.

There is a great deal of negative publicity nowadays surrounding zoos so I am keen to find out whether we should be supporting them or staying away.

Daredevil fisherman Bruno Dias braves the rough seas and craggy rocks of the Vila do Bispo coastline in order to harvest Perceves.

“The Arc is not about getting to the finish line, it is about the joy of being on the ocean.”

I uncovered a wonderful story of a family's struggle against adversity to create a now renowned business.

If, like me, you have driven past the Solar Farm near Continente and wondered who owns it and where the electricity goes, then read on!

There is no doubt that Zoomarine is a huge financial asset to the Algarve, frequently ranking in Trip Advisor´s Top 10 Best European Parks and employing 80 full time staff increasing to 450 in the summer months. But is it an asset to be proud of?

On arriving at the aptly named  Nova Vida recovery centre, I am surprised that there are no outward signs that the pleasant pink-hued villa is anything other than a normal property. As I walk in it feels like a home and not a clinic.

Chris Bartel fulfilled his dream of living in the Algarve by building a wooden truck as his home and creating handcrafted surfboards out of wood.

What happened in between is a heart-warming family history which has evolved around the Quinta´s thick white walls, which climb up the hillside, offering an array of terraces and verandas with far-reaching views.