Algarve Addicts: A Thriving Community Of Healthy, Outdoor People Connected By The Algarve, Portugal.

Professor Luis Coelho Meet Professor Luis Coelho from the University of the Algarve. He is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and is a respected voice in the community, writing for an online magazine as well as his day to day work and being invited to sit on various conference panels. I thoroughly enjoyed our chat and I am sure you will too. Listen here --> Show notes The vagaries of professional titles in Portugal - different to other places in the world. Luis was born in Beja, just north of the Algarve in the Alentejo Province. A dream of being a footballer, became a desire to being a vet and then he actually studied economics at the University of the Algarve. Studying at the UALG, what life was like... as an outsider (a non Algarvio). Early impressions of the Algarve and Monte Gordo in particular. Investments in the Algarve: beautifying the cities, sewage improvements, and how clean the tap water is. A short history of the Algarve through an economic lens: canned fish industry, Faro airport was constru