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

Episode 10 / Paul Rees, Editor of the Algarve Daily News Paul Rees owns and runs the Algarve Daily News, a digital news outlet that comprehensively covers issues of regional interest in the Algarve. His entertaining weekly email newsletter is read by thousands and keeps one abreast of many of the scandals and sometimes wildly outrageous issues of the day. We chose to chat about his home city of Olhão. Show notes All show notes from the Algarve Addicts podcast follow sequential order. Let me know if you'd like time-stamps in here too? Armação de Pêra in the 80's and the first cars. Algoz in 2003. "What a life!" the memoir of Donald Frank Rees. Moving to Olhão: "fishing, prostitution and drug use". A city without a beach, similar to Faro. Olhão, a breakaway town from Faro, a settlement of outlaws and an overriding sense of independence. The Olhanense repelled the French invaders from Olhão (and as a result from the Algarve) in 1808 and sailed across the Atlantic in the Bom Sucesso to notify the Portuguese King