Free reading – a summer holiday pleasure!
School’s out for summer! For children of all ages, that means a very welcome rest from homework and academia. It also allows for many a break from being told exactly
Spiritual but not religious
Our monthly feature seeks to offer open-minded, clarifying, and meaningful responses to readers’ questions about spirituality. Send your questions to The Resident. Q: What’s next? Dear readers, I have been
The world should try to be more English
For those of you familiar with the phrase ‘tongue in cheek’, you will all undoubtedly understand the context and self-mockery of the English within the following article. But for any
Here comes the summer!
Summer holidays are here, and I know from personal experience that for some parents this is a joy and a pleasure and for others a struggle to juggle work, childcare
Modern love
“Love: a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to
Letter from Cascais
Summer in Cascais – our second summer under the impact of the Covid pandemic! Our municipality is part of the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, which has become a new high-risk
There is another way
There is a line in one of Shakespeare’s plays that says: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” Over the last year and a half,
Winter stays
I read with interest that Portugal feels it is well placed to recover from the loss of trade and restrictions that the pandemic has induced to us all. I really
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CTT 1 More news about the iPad sent by my daughter and husband on January 29. It still has not arrived. Enquires by a friend who finally managed to talk
Algarve losing its charm
There was a time when you travelled in the Algarve and you saw mostly houses built in the traditional Portuguese regional style. The region had a charm which attracted people