Opinion

It’s been seven years, pretty much to the day, since I moved to Portugal with my wife Louisa and our two young children. Since then, and in this truly marvellous

When I was ten years old, I used to catch the train, by myself, from Cascais or Estoril to Cais do Sodré in Lisbon, where I attended school. It was

Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with orange trees, and deep blue skies. Your vessel, called the Sunboat, is solar-powered. What better place than the Algarve, with her

Might I call this ‘pearly gates’ hospitality, where brilliantly warm hosts offer you a glass of chilled rosé, on arrival – made with Touriga Nacional grapes, plucked from vines you

I have observed that there is nothing particularly amazing about having siblings. However, we don’t have much of a choice in the matter because our parents, nature, and God are

After eight years residing in the Algarve and looking back to the end of summer, I have come to the conclusion that August is my least favorite month. I fully

When I ask: “are you ready for the fall?”, I mean of course autumn, as (quite rightly in my view) the British reader may prefer to refer to it, and

Last week, I shared a few ideas about what we can do should boredom ever darken our door, perhaps the blue or yellow-framed door of our new home in Portugal.

The earthquake that occurred in Portugal in the early hours of Monday, August 25 was the 10th largest since the 16th century and was followed by nine aftershocks, which were