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10 years ago Tara Donovan was looking forward to a romantic weekend with her husband Jonathan. Little did she know that she would come home with a lot more than duty free! They were headed to Olhão, a working fishing town in the Eastern Algarve in Portugal, a previously prosperous place where the polish had faded but the charm had not diminished. Tara had never been to Portugal, didn’t speak the language and at that point would have struggled to differentiate her cobra from her downward dog yet a decade later she is the proud guardian of Casa Fuzetta, named by CNTraveller in 2024 as one of ...

The Table Is Yours is a journey through the quiet corners of our communities, one café at a time. Hosted by J.D. Murgolo, each episode begins with a simple invitation: to sit down and share the human interest stories that often go unheard. These are entirely unscripted conversations shaped by trust, coffee, and the kind of silence that finally lets the truth come through. We move beyond the surface to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, proving that every person has a story worth telling if someone is willing to listen. Join us at the table for a masterclass in presence and the art of the...

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar...