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Rural Fire Protection – Cleaning Your Land – UPDATE

Since this post, Safe Communities Portugal have published another Newsletter entitled “5th Definitive Guide to Rural Fire Protection and Land Cleaning”…….the link is provided here :

As can be seen by the title, information regarding this is being updated and clarified regularly:

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/SCP-Newsletter—A-Definitive-Guide-to-Rural-Fire-Protection-and-Land-Cleaning—2018.html?soid=1116729122011&aid=jwVzIMwyYpc

 

Courtesy of Safe Communities Portugal:

The ICNF (the Government authority for forestry management and land cleaning etc.) have issued posters showing the correct way to clean your land.  These are new official up to date versions released in February 2018 and supersede earlier versions.

The PDF can be downloaded in either English or Portugeuse:

http://www.safecommunitiesportugal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Protect-your-House-against-Rural-Fires-ICNF-v-2018-English.pdf

http://www.safecommunitiesportugal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Proteja-a-sua-Casa-dos-Incendios-Rurais-v-2018.pdf

 

Amovate Calendar of Events

AMOVATE

Car Boot – Old School House – 1st Sunday every month (from April –  October)

 

Proposed Events :

25 May 2018 – Charity Event in Aid of the Aljezur Bombeiros – featuring The Bottles – at Restaurante Fonte do Vale

16 June – Petanca Competition – to be held at the Old School House Vales

 

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Insurance For Amovate Members

Amovate has formed a partnership with local insurance brokers Fidelidade in Aljezur to offer members an additional discount on all kinds of insurance cover.

If you are soon to renew your insurance, or plan to switch from your existing brokers, you can take advantage of the discount simply by producing your membership card when you sign up with Carla and Manuel Cristo at their office in Rua 25 da Abril, Aljezur, near the bridge.

Carla says they can already go up to 62% discount in their original quote. But as an Amovate member you will get an additional €10 discount on any insurance policy you take out with Fidelidade.

Carla, whose company handles the public liability insurance for Amovate’s “Family Days”, says they also offer the discount in transfers from other insurance, and goes on:

“Here in Fidelidade we offer house insurance—this also covers swimming pool leaks (but not simple cracks)—and storm damage to the pool plumbing; basically the pool has the same guarantees that the building has.

“We now offer the top level cover for building contents, such as accidental damage to computers, smart phones, tablets etc.

“And our range of services also includes health and car insurance, pet health insurance and liability insurance for pets, guns, house rental, travel, life insurance, personal injury and funeral costs.

“Overall, the services we offer are mostly related to insurances, professional consultancy, claims management and clients needing our services in an emergency can contact me on my mobile phone 24 hours a day”.

 

 

Amazigh Guest House

Have you got family and/or friends coming over this summer, looking for accommodation?

Maybe we can help!

Amovate, working with the Amazigh Guest House and the Amazigh Hostel, has arranged special discounted rates for our members and their family and friends.

The Amazigh Guest House is located up here on Vale da Telha and the Amazigh Hostel is within Aljezur’s historic centre.

João Carvalho, who owns them both, is offering a 10 per cent discount on their normal prices to Amovate members who book for themselves or their families through the Amazigh on-line booking service which you can find below.

Rooms can be booked on a daily basis and João says he will also negotiate further discounts for Amovate members who wish to book for a group or for longer stays, such as one or two weeks.

The two establishments are beautifully furnished in a North African style—the name “Amazigh” comes from the Berber or Nomad peoples and means “free people” or “noble men”—and the guesthouse (about 200 metres from the Pines Roundabout has a large swimming pool and tennis court.

João himself is from Lisbon and he began coming down to the Algarve west coast 30 years ago to enjoy the surfing. Eventually he moved to Vilanova de Milfontes and then, in 2009, to Aljezur, keen to launch his own business in what he saw as an area with huge tourist potential.

Here, below, are the full details of both the guesthouse and the hostel, with details of how to book, and we have also provided a price list and photographs. (Click on any photo and they will present themselves in a larger form)

João will have an up to date list of members, to confirm it is an Amovate Member making the booking.

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AMAZIGH GUEST HOUSE & AMAZIGH HOSTEL

Located on the Rota Vicentina in the centre of the Costa Vicentina National Park.

GUESTHOUSE AMAZIGH

Urbanização Paisagem Oceano 110, Vale da Telha, 8670-158 Aljezur, Portugal

The guest house is local within Paisagem Oceano in the Vale da Telha area just 2.5km from both Arrifana and Monte Clerigo and Arrifana beaches. For location see Google maps—Amazigh Guesthouse.

The guest house has a total of 23 en-suite rooms—17 with twin beds, seven with double beds—18 of which have a balcony and five of which have a TV.

Overall, the guest house can sleep up to 46 people.

The communal areas include a lounge and breakfast room, and the 4,000sqm gardens feature a large swimming room, with children’s pool, and a tennis court, with equipment available in reception.

The guest house also offers free Wi-Fi and João hopes to have a fully-stocked bar available near the pool from next year, subject to licensing approval.

To book, e-mail:

Booking@amazighGH.com

Tel: (+351) 282 995 149. Mobile: (+351) 962 424 632.

Website:

www.amazighguesthouse.com

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HOSTEL AMAZIGH

The hostel is located in the historic centre of the village of Aljezur and can accommodate up to 44 people. For location see Google maps—Amazigh Hostel.

There are nine private rooms sleeping one to four people in each rooms.

There are two dormitory-style shared rooms sleeping between six and 10 people.

The private rooms and the shared rooms all have their own wc.

The communal areas include a communal kitchen, a lounge, sun terrace and a patio.

The hostel offers free Wi-Fi.

To book, e-mail:

Booking@amazighhostel.com

Tel: (+351) 282 997 502. Mobile: (+351) 917 998 182

Website:

www.amazighhostel.com

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From the prices shown above, Amovate members, families and friends receive a 10% discount. This discount is valid only for bookings made through

Booking@amazighGH.com and Booking@amazighhostel.com

Prices are per room per night, with breakfast included.

Single rooms are available only from January 1st to March 23rd and from November 1st to December 29th.

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FYI:

The word Amazigh means “free people” or “noble men”.

Berbers or Amazighs are an ethnic group of nomadic travellers indigenous to North Africa. They are distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River. Historically, they spoke Berber languages, which together form the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.

 

 

Drilling For Oil In Aljezur

FrackingBREAKING NEWS!

Drilling For Oil In Aljezur

José de Sousa Cintra, the businessman who created Vale da Telha through his Somundi development company, now plans on drilling for oil in this area. Alarming news!

 

 

From The Algarve Daily News:

MapPortfuel, owned by local millionaire businessman José de Sousa Cintra, (pictured below), has obtained the concession to drill for oil in the Algarve near Aljezur in the west and Tavira to the east – within the brown blocs marked on the adjoining map.

Portfuel announced the concession today and will be at first using traditional well drilling to see if and where oil reserves lie.

José de Sousa Cintra, a former chairman of Sporting, signed the deal for ‘prospecting, exploration, development and production of oil.’

The National Authority for the Fuel Market, Paulo Carmona said that the concession agreements, research, development and production of oil in the areas designated for Aljezur and Tavira are only for land based activities using ‘traditional drilling methods’ for a period of four years.

Of enormous concern to the Algarve’s environmental lobby, there is no requirement for an environmental impact study for these planned drilling activities despite a 100% likelihood that the environment will be impacted.

There will have to be a study if there is any later exploration or drilling using ‘unconventional methods’ such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas.

Sousa Cintra

José de Sousa Cintra

Such environmental studies are paid for by the proposer and in the case of fracking it is unlikely that there will be a sensible scientific study of the impact fracking will have on the Algarve’s underground water supply systems, property values and the affect of the activity on tourism nor the long term result of the injection of toxic chemicals into the subterranean Algarve.

Paul Carmona sagely noted that Portfuel Oil and Gas Portugal has shown interest in land drilling “because it believes that it is possible to find oil,” noting that these will be the first oil test drilling activities for both locations.

In an unsuccessful attempt to downplay the serious nature of the new land based concession areas that cover most of the Algarve, Carmona said that since 1981 there have been 27 test wells drilled at a costs to the industry of about €1 billion in attempts to find oil.

“All holes were abandoned because they were dry or because the amount of oil found was insufficient to justify the investment,” said Carmona, adding helpfully that drilling holes in the Algarve helps us to have a deeper knowledge of the territory.

Also since 1981 the Algarve has developed into one of the Europe’s most attractive tourist areas with property prices second only to Lisbon.

How Algarve homeowners will react to oil drilling on their doorstep, whether relatively unregulated test drilling or full fracking activity, can only be guessed at.

The offshore oil and gas drilling is going ahead with plans to turn the Algarve’s near offshore into a large industrial zone but there has been an underwhelming response to anti-oil petitions despite the broad impact such activity inevitably will have on the region.

Currently, several companies, such as Repsol and Partex, have permission from the government to search for oil and natural gas in the Algarve, but only in offshore blocs.

With the anti-oil fight now coming onshore and threatening people’s homes and land, protests may attract more interest from those that may be adversely affected financially.

http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/6774-onshore-oil-drilling-concession-signed-for-tavira-and-lagos-blocs