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The captivating tale of a charismatic journalist from Aljezur
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!
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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!