The following is a condensed version of comments made by John Tranmer, Managing Director of AlmaVerde Village & Spa at the SB10 regional conference on Sustainable Building held at the Hilton, Vilamoura on 17 – 19 March, during the Plenary Session VII Financing and procurement.
John Tranmer
Our own local guru of sustainable tourism and yoga teacher Gordon Sillence is asking us all to support the UN-backed idea of 16 days of Worldwide Truce during the London 2012 Olympics.
Gordon Sillence
An exhibition by Polish artist Kasia Wrona entitled “Flames of Inspiration” opens at the Lagos Cultural Centre on 27th March and will run until 22nd May.
“Flames of Inspiration” is an exhibition of works primarily inspired by the intense and disturbing experience felt by the artist during and following the forest fires that devastated Serra de Monchique in 2003
Kasia Wrona
Homes Overseas Magazine interviewed Tom and Gill Blades from Streatham, London, who have been living in Algarve since 2006.
Tom Blades, 60, a composer and Gill, 53, a freelance counsellor, had originally planned to buy and renovate a Portuguese farmhouse. Tom said:
“We did not want to buy on a golf course or similar development. But we were attracted by the thinking behind AlmaVerde and impressed by the quality and type of construction and villa styles.”