Following the Press Release:

Following the successful cookery course held at the Portugal Tourist Board's Catering and Hotel Management College in Faro at the end of November afpop announces 2 further dates for additional courses that have been arranged with the College. The first will be held in Faro on Tuesday 30 April and the second at the College in Portimão on Tuesday 7 May.

Both courses will start at 08.30 with a visit to the market to purchase ingredients, then on to the College for a presentation about the course and advice on cooking techniques before starting the food preparation and cooking.

Suggestions for the starters are: Scampi with tartar sauce and a shot of lemon grass; Monkfish kebab with white butter sauce; Razor clams with aneth foam.

For the main course the suggestions are: Octopus casserole with seafood; Pork tenderloin confit with citrus.

The dessert is: Carob tart with honey.

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As in the past, there will 3 IRS Seminars held in January and February 2013 held by afpop and euroFINESCO.

For the 17th consecutive year afpop has arranged for euroFINESCO to present a series of IRS Tax Seminars to provide the information that residents in Portugal and people moving to Portugal need to know about their obligations for presenting their Tax Declarations to the Finanças.  The seminar subject will include the latest information about personal allowances, how and when to submit the annual Declaration and penalties for false declarations and late submissions.

The presenters from euroFINESCO will give impartial advice about all matters to do with individual taxation and will answer questions of general interest in open forum.  They will also be available to give more specific advice on individual cases after the group session has ended.  Where advice requires euroFINESCO staff to undertake enquiries on behalf of an individual, this would be done on a professional basis outside of the seminar.  But where they are able to offer advice about an individual or unusual circumstance, they are generally happy to do so at the seminar.

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During the Winter brake in the Algarve the german Bundesliga Teams Hannover 96 and Bayer Leverkusen 04 played against each other during a Mini-tournament on Monday, 7 Jannuary 2013, at the Cascade Resort in Lagos. The match ends 2:0 for Hannover 96. Following some impressions from the match:

(c) All images Alexander Hammer

In the Twelfth-Day occasion, nothing like music to celebrate this festive times. At 9.30pm, at Igreja do Carmo in Tavira, on the January 5th, and at Teatro das Figuras, on the January 6th, Orquestra do Algarve will perform Twelfth-Day Concerts with the British conductor Stuart Stradford in musical direction. The program includes works by Arvo Pärt, Benjamin Britten and Haydn, promising to enchant the audience with sounds from classic to contemporary.

For more information see the Website.

TWELFTH-DAY CONCERTS

Saturday, 5 Jannuary 2013
TAVIRA| IGREJA DO CARMO
9.30pm
Paid Admission
Tel: 289 860 890

Sunday, 6 Jannuary 2013
FARO| TEATRO DAS FIGURAS
9.30pm
Paid Admission
Tel. 289 888 110

Programme:
 
Arvo Pärt (1935)
Cantus in Memoriem Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

F. J. Haydn (1732-1809) 
Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”