Opinion

This is my 50th article for the Resident, so pretty much a year’s worth of contributions, and another year living in Portugal upon which to reflect. It’s a good moment

Summer in the city Early June promised some warmer, sunnier weather to Londoners, tired of the long, wet, winter and spring of 2023/2024. At the top of the list of

In the end, they left with a whimper rather than a bang. Almost unnoticed, machines and material on the building site gradually started disappearing until suddenly there was nothing left

“My whole life has been about finding meaning, the pursuit of happiness and taking risks to do that … not being afraid to try different things,” says Brani, the man

Of late, I have been trying to practice the art of doing nothing, and I must admit that it is a far more challenging task than I imagined it to

I’ve written close to fifty articles for this, the Portugal Resident, and my challenge is never who or what to write about. More often than not, it’s what to not

For no particular reason, I sneezed 10 times nonstop the moment I woke up this morning. The first couple of sneezes were accompanied by sympathetic sounds of ‘Bless You’ and

American writer, New York Times journalist, and naturalist Hal Borland is reported as saying: “All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.” If you’d