Via Verde contravenes EU law on equality
Dear Editor, No EU country charges any foreign national vehicle differently for driving its highways. This is tantamount to “Highway Robbery”. I am a regular tourist in a Spanish-registered car with a
Disgraceful behaviour of Brits in the Algarve
Dear Editor, Following the disgraceful behaviour of youths in Praia da Rocha and reading reports of a group of mainly Welsh hooligans in Albufeira, I have to wonder why the
Collecting … matchboxes!
All my life I have collected things as a hobby. I have been a philatelist (stamps), a deltiologist (post cards), conchologist (shells), bibliophilist (books) and an arctophilist (teddies). Nowadays only
Full speed ahead for electric vehicles
There is much support in Portugal for the European Union’s proposals to demand that, from 2035, all new cars, vans and trucks must be electric-powered. While there are national differences
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