Earth, fire and water – Part 2
The symbolic reversion of the hour to “normal” time on October 26 will bring long evenings and a return to consuming roasted chestnuts and hot toddies by glowing embers in
London Calling – October 2025
Going underground London’s famous underground railway system, colloquially known as ‘The Tube’, is the oldest and probably best known in the world, having opened in 1863. The ‘London Metropolitan Railway’
Hacking, interference and crowd-funded government websites?
If a regular reader here, or Good Morning Portugal! show viewer over on YouTube, you’ll know I meet some fascinating and fabulous people on a very regular basis. Last week
Portuguese data centres – an overview
The exponential growth of large-scale data storage systems and cloud computing has led to the adoption of a new unit of capacity measurement: the petabyte (PB). To illustrate its enormity,
Feeling ‘exhausterwhelmulated’? Try this!
This meme-borne neologism (or newly coined word to you and me) had exactly the kind of emotional onomatopoeia I speak of, describing the state of being “simultaneously exhausted, overwhelmed, and overstimulated.”
Carlos Moedas – the Lisbon mayor who left no stone unturned
From renovating over a thousand properties for social housing, creating a better health infrastructure for people over 65, an ambitious rainwater drainage system on a monumental Bazalgette scale, to putting
Housing: the urgent need for revolution
The existing methodology for the conveyancing of residential property in Portugal is crippled by: For the average sale of a home, approximately 20% of the value can be attributed to
After the passing of Gabrielle
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1 and will end on November 30. After a slow start, there has recently been back-to-back tropical cyclones expected to whip
Off-Grid and Entertaining in Portugal – Coming up for air – surviving the silly season
It was the low-season of skateboarding ducks, surfing dogs, extended sports coverage and odd tales that would never normally make the evening news. The world has changed in the few
Choose Portugal if you want, but please choose
Did you see that recent UK Guardian ‘article’: “Why are so many Americans moving to Portugal? Apart from the obvious reason…”? And did it irk you like it irked me?