Country Matters

WITH CONTINUING heat and no appreciable rain since February, the leaves are turning on our neighbour’s vines. Although both bunches and fruit are small compared with last year’s crop, the

I HAD a chilling sense of déjà vu when watching Sky News on Thursday July 21. Two weeks since the bombings in London, and once again public transport was under

WHEN WE came to Portugal in 1986, Lagos was a pleasant working port, from which trawlers set out on a daily basis, and Odiáxere was a rundown village with strong

The stamp for my car is a drop in the ocean but, if everyone else paid their dues, surely something could be done to improve the general condition of the

“Stop the world I want to get off” – sometimes it begins to feel like that and then I look from my office window into a stand of eucalyptus trees.

SUBSEQUENT TO our application to be connected to broadband for speedy and unlimited access to the internet, we have had nothing but trouble. When Viatel – a branch of Portugal

‘This rising generation has so much going for it, especially those with the courage to step outside their comfort zone’ Birthdays are an annual reminder of one’s own mortality and,

WITH THE big Eight-O coming up for a member of the family and the need to celebrate like an itch that must be scratched, it was imperative to give our

“Spring is sprung, de Sun am riz, I wonder where dem boidies is? Dem boids is on de wing! But dats absoid-de wing is on de boid!” Trivial but true.

IT SEEMS that half of the Algarve has gone down with, or is recovering from, a nasty virus. A ‘flu vaccination given in good time covers only a few types