After a hectic season, which culminated in him winning the Premiership title with Manchester United and picking up both the PFA Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards, Cristiano Ronaldo is enjoying a relaxing break this summer.

Last month he decided to take a well-deserved holiday at the luxurious Vale do Lobo Golf, Beach and Spa Resort, in Portugal's central Algarve, staying in a luxurious beach-side villa.

Dolphins are back in the Guadiana River thanks to the cleaner waters and the quantity of food available. However, they only risk going a little north of the international bridge that connects Portugal to Spain. The search for food, in particular mackerel, seems to be the main reason for these mammals to make a detour from their normal route.

It is impressive, made totally of wood and is clearly visible to people coming ashore on the Ilha Deserta. From the outset, voices were raised criticising the building of a "hotel" in the middle of the Ria Formosa Natural Park, but in fact it is just a restaurant. The Ilha Deserta, located off the coast at Faro, was an almost unreachable paradise until the end of the 1980s when José Vargas started to organise tourist visits by boat to what is regarded as one of the wildest islands in the Algarve.

A former water park will serve as the setting for one of the most eagerly awaited parties of the Algarve summer. The organisers promise music until dawn. The Austrians Makossa & Megablast will be topping the bill for the second staging of Algarve First Face, which this year will be held at the disused water park Aqualine in Castro Marim, on 28th July.

Lovers of the music of the 1980s will have a unique opportunity to let their hair down in the Algarve this summer, thanks to the return of names such as Elvis Costello, Joe Cocker, Lloyd Cole, Brian Ferry and even Boney M, who are getting on a bit. The joint effect of the recently created Allgarve programme and other events that regularly feature during the Algarve summer mean that there will be a wealth of concerts by some old stars over the next two months.