Is It Just Me?

I REALLY enjoy the work I do: I travel all over Portugal, I get to meet lots of interesting people and I research all sorts of interesting things. I am

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it. JUST A footnote to my reflections a fortnight ago… My papal deliberations, in accordance with copy deadlines,

Have you ever travelled by train to Lisbon or Porto or any other major cities here in Portugal? I have and I enjoy it. The trains are on time, they

Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it. AHEAD of my main topics this week, a brief postscript to my latest deliberations in a ‘A

WHAT’S a bitsa? You know, bitsa this, bitsa that – a real mix of things this week, just for a change. Let’s start with my last piece about bad debts,

I AM a man of a thousand wishes, a child speechless in the biggest sweet shop in the universe, a cripple vocally inarticulate. I am not from Mars, I come

A QUESTION for all small businesses or freelance independent workers: are you owed money by large companies? Yup, me too. In my 10 years of working here in the Algarve,

THIS WEEK’S set of experiences reflect on life in Portugal’s main tourism region, because it is here that the greatest variety of that strange species, the tourist, can be found.

I WAS encouraged at the enormous amount of coverage that was given to the potentially carcinogenic colourant, Sudan 1, finding its way into the human food chain. Sudan 1 is

PORTUGAL may have just lost out to Greece in the football stakes last year, but a recent worldwide study has now crowned the Portuguese world champions at…not sleeping! According to