The captivating tale of a charismatic journalist from Aljezur

Algarve Addicts

Natasha Donn

Natasha is an engaging and delightful character, brimming with personality and juicy tidbits of life in the Algarve. She is a career journalist, reporting on all the fascinating stories in the Algarve. Let me tell you there are some miraculously scandalous stories about! Listen on to her engaging tale:

Show notes

• On journalism in the modern day.
• Natasha always wanted to be a journalist, ever since the age of 9.
• Living in a whorehouse in Portsmouth at college.
• The Surrey and South London News Group: "The Balham and Tooting News".
• "Journalism is writing what someone doesn't want to see in print, everything else is just PR".
• On being threatened with defamation and staying out of jail!
• A part time job filing in the basement of a multi-millionaire turned into being his personal assistant around the world for a few years.
• Natasha fell pregnant and moved over with the father of her child to Portugal.
• "Picked up Portuguese in 5 minutes" and absolutely loved it whilst in Praia da Luz.
• She started writing for Discover Lagos in 1990 and has been writing ever since.
• Scratching under the surface of the Algarve and there are some pretty gritty stories to uncover:
  • The ongoing story of Premier FX
  • Salgados Development
  • Algarve Oil story
  
  
• Natasha mentions stories about bullfighting.
• We talk about PAN, the Portuguese political party.
• Paul Rees' Algarve Daily News.
• Natasha's recommendations:
  • Cordoama and Castelejo Beaches.
  • Ingrina, Zavial and Salema on the south coast.
  • "Do not go to Albufeira".
  
  

• Natasha currently writes for the Portugal Resident, look for her name on the bottom of each article. Here's a good one about a person falling into a sculpture!