Hi everyone To cut a long story short both myself and one of my blog readers is having problems with their accountants and I must admit a year after complaining about my own I have failed to find a decent recommendation for a good one. You can read my original post here: http://livinginthesun.info/p...

Thanks guys

I appreciate the thumbs up and I will give them a go!

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It will be my dad's 60th birthday party in two weeks and I know I have left it a little late but can anyone recommend a good place for getting a birthday cake. We are looking for someone that does proper cake decorating and with it being a major birthday we didn't want to just buy him one from the s...

That sounds good - I didn't know it was that cheap to get them and will certainly look into it.

I have to ask - can you get prescription goggles in the algarve as I could really do with some and a recommendation would be great.

The reason I didn't take to silves is because they fined us for staying in the pool too long and never told us before hand that this would happen. We were only in the water for 95 minutes and that included getting changed/washing my hair etc. And I was fined more for the extra 5 minutes than the ori...

Yes we are going to monte santo and really looking forward to it.

It turns out that my beauty therapists ex flat mate does the lessons - just shows what a small world we live in!!!

Thanks Andy

I have just rung them and my boy is booked in for lessons tomorrow.

I cant believe I have never noticed this complex before I've looked on the net and it looks massive.

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To cut a long story short we are taking our 10 year old son to disney in Florida in June and he cant swim and we would love to take him swimming with the dolphins while we are on holiday. So we are looking for some good swimming centres to take him too. We live in Silves but don't like the swimming ...

Hi Guys

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU.

I have just had my first appointment with Sarah and she did a wonderful job.

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Thanks for the thumbs up on sarah and I have made an appointment with her for next week

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Hi everyone I have been using the same salon in silves for the past few years and standards have gone downhill and I was looking for a new one. Does anyone have any personal recommendations for salons that are in the silves/lagoa areas or mobile beauty salons that cover these areas. Preferrably ones...

I hope you have a wonderful time here!!!

I have been in the algarve (silves) for over 3 years now and absolutely no regrets!!!

Hi expatlife.......No, the charity shop I mentioned on the " out" road is in Carvoeiro : about 50 meters from the end, almost next door to the motorcycle hire place....sound like the place Sam has benn to! I have seen some quite decent sofas, armchairs and a dining room suite upstairs . Don't know ...

I recently bought a nice quite modern faux leather 2 seater sofa at the Donkey charity shop in Carvoeiro, on the out road just before the roads merge. Also worth checking out the cheaper shops for new furniture that have sprung up in the region, eg Conforama Hi Sam I will have a trip to the other d...