A new review from the Sentinel Newspaper (online)

Heading south, The Algarve Experience: Life Through Foreign Eyes is a very different kind of read, and a wonderfully dippable one. Albufeira-based Anna Alcott, a Geordie who has lived everywhere from Lebanon to the Bahamas before the Algarve sun won her over, teamed up with our great mate Paolo Funassi to interview 90 people from 60 countries who now call the region home. The result is a chorus of honest voices rather than a glossy brochure. Some found life here better than they’d dreamed, others harder than the adverts promised, and all have something useful to say. Anyone weighing up a move south should read it, and anyone who has already made one will recognise themselves somewhere in it. With 90 short stories to choose from, it’s also the perfect book for readers who like to pick up a chapter with their morning coffee and put it down again with no guilt at all.