I regularly read online and in paper form when I am in portugal, The Portugal Resident (INVALID URL They report a number of violent house robberies against english and irish home owners in faro and olhao. I'm telling you now that after I had been broken in to twice and my neighbour once where we live in the almancil area, its getting to the point that I prob will restrict my visits. My break ins were blamed on eastern europeans, as were these attacks. The portuguese goverment appear dissapointed by the numbers in the algarve being down but they have to realise that portugal isn't as safe as it once was. I gave up going to spain, canaries etc because of the crime but perhaps england isn't such a bad place after all!