London Calling – Power to the people
Battersea in South West London is famous for lots of things. There is a beautiful riverside park with a wonderful Buddhist Peace Pagoda; nearby is the school at which the
New Year’s resolutions for 2023
This is my 50th column for this newspaper, which represents over four years of me trying to keep track of the expat experience here along the southern coast of Portugal.
Six scary things for Americans moving to Portugal
Portugal is all the rage in America right now. When I first started wintering in the Algarve five years ago, an American sighting was like seeing a Yeti in your
2022 “hottest year in mainland Portugal since 1931”
Average air temperature was 1.38 degrees Celcius higher than normal 2022 has been described as the hottest year in mainland Portugal since 1931, with a total of six heatwaves recorded,
Catholicism has its ups and downs
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVl has been buried. Pope Francis has mobility impairment. The Catholic religion is in decline. However, the Sanctuary of Fátima in Portugal is surging ahead and this
Strategic financial planning for 2023
This New Year, make it one of your resolutions to check your financial planning is on track to meet your needs and protect your family’s long-term financial security in Portugal.
Smart goals for 2023!
As we say goodbye to 2022, we look back at what it gave us; a war in Europe, the death of a much-loved monarch and lots of talk, doom and
Is it just ME? Pandemonium
Wild uproar, unrestrained disorder, tumult, chaos – the capital of hell in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Welcome to 2023! Whilst the pandemic, which blighted our daily lives over the past two
The missile that came in from the cold
Christmas is over and in Portugal we are facing the challenges, and hopefully the delights, of a new year. For Orthodox Christians in Ukraine, however, Christmas falls this Sunday, January
Big biodiversity breakthroughs
There is reason to be fairly optimistic about major advances in international attitudes towards ending the devastation humans have been causing to other forms of life on the planet. The