The Sovereign Art Foundation Prizes
I have once again organised the Sovereign Art Foundation’s (SAF) Student Prize Portugal, a prize for secondary school students which has been running since 2017. This is a prestigious art
Small talk
I can not say whether it is my advancing years or my insufficiently powerful vocal cords, but I do not seem to enjoy making small talk anymore. In fact, even
A foreigner’s (optional) guide to Portuguese politics
I will begin this week’s column with a confession, hoping for your understanding and forgiveness. Between you and me, one of the reasons (or excuses?) I have for not immersing
From Vice President to The Linen Girl – Best Promotion Ever
A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I were once again rhapsodizing about our incredible lives here in the Algarve. I reflected that the only thing missing in my perfect
A kind of hunch
If one is relocating to Portugal, the first thing one must do is purchase a drill machine along with a tool kit, and the second thing one should do is
Caring for the unloved ones
“The disintegration of traditional family life has destroyed much of a former pattern of elderly parents being cared for at home” Elderly people can be cantankerous, unamusing, uncompromising, smelly,
Pearls of wisdom
As soon as I entered the plush interiors of the dental clinic in Lourinhã – our dinosaur town on the Silver Coast of Portugal – the first thing that caught
Sephardic Identity: Europe’s richest businesswoman of the 16th century
In 1492, the Mendes Benveniste family of Spanish Jews was one of the 600 who were granted asylum in Portugal in return for a payment of 100 cruzados each in
Portugal as personal growth (‘The Power of Não’)
When I say “I love Portugal” – and believe me I often do – what do I mean? I certainly don’t love politics or the increasing sense of social injustice.
Two poems for the first day of November
The withered crone sat on her stone Of riven granite grey And through her crystal ball did see The thrall of a humanity All Saints and Sinners too Just like