Blogs from Portugal

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Harry

Here we are in February. It is cold and changeable a few bright sunny days with that fabulous, brilliant blue, cloudless sky and then misty rain and…

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Harry

It’s sunny here in Portugal now, enough to get a sunburn if you’re not careful. Certainly warmer that the UK and with less of a chance of…

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Manuela

While researching calçada portuguesa (Portuguese paving), I came across a source that claimed it to have started because of an Indian white rhino named "Ganga". The story…

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Manuela

Summer is slowly returning to Cascais, bringing with it bright clear, almost cloudless days and stunningly intense dark turquoise night skies. Walking my dog Guinness along the…

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Live Blog Team

Article by David Butler-Cole The Algarveans Experimental Theatre   It was pre-war Nazi Germany and fearful Jewish parents sent 10,000 children abroad to face the challenges of an alien…

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Live Blog Team

From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Theresa May MP Part of: Brexit 19 October 2017 As I travel to Brussels today, I know that…

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Eddi Pitcher

With St Valentine and his perfunctory bunch of roses around about every Lisbon street corner, the call of the wild provides a much needed alternative romantic escape…

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Eddi Pitcher

  If you want to escape the crowds of Lisbon, it's really not that far you have to go. Even without a car it's possible to reach…