Brits with lives on hold due to bureaucratic incompetence
Dear Editor, Quite right! When I travelled from London to Lille (France) on Eurostar three weeks ago, my passport was stamped by the French with the simple explanation that France
Tap Portugal double billed me and won’t return funds
Dear Editor, Tap Portugal double billed me $1,252 on August 2, 2022 and has had no refund for the double billing after a half dozen calls, emails, and request on
TAP passenger treatment
Dear Editor, I only wanted to add that sadly enough things did not get any better on precisely the weekend that followed both Mrs Ourmières Widener’s poor excuse and empty
Readers letter: A frustrated woman
Dear Editor, My son and fiancé were flying from Lisbon to Nice July 22, 2022. They started from Faro in the morning, then to Lisbon and connected to Nice. TAP
Heated clashes over the climate
COMMENT Amid the wildfires and droughts in Portugal and across the European continent, there has been no sign of a return to China’s co-operation agreement with the United States in
Exchange of foreign drivers licences
The government’s recent announcement about supposedly now recognising foreign driver’s licences is very misleading and does not begin to address the real issues. That people from certain countries do not
Global warming here and now
Events over the past two weeks have surely scuppered any Trump-like delusions that climate change is not happening or not threatening all forms of life on planet Earth. For example,
Beat the heat
It’s roasting out there! I must say that while the rest of the planet descends on our shores, this is not my favourite time of the year, and I can
Growing up to be a physiotherapist
Children often say what they want to be when they grow up. A dancer, a chef, a doctor, a footballer, a racing car driver … Yet, how many actually do
Disastrous trip to Madrid with TAP
Dear Editor, This is a horrendous story about my experience of flying with TAP. They must be the worst airline in Europe. Their customer service is almost non-existent. Their IT