At Flores in the Azores

The view from our sitting room window is not supposed to look like this in August:- As I type this, it's now dark and the rain is l...

Well we weren't betrayed by EDA this time but by RTP Açores themselves because one page on their website said it was on at 20.45 while ...

Oh dear, an awful long time since I wrote anything on here, in fact since the power cut in the middle of the World Cup Final. Well my psyc...

The image above is plucked from the website of EDA,  Electricidade dos Açores , our electricity supplier. It depicts a contented young ...

There are two things we do here which we didn't do when we lived in Edinburgh which are (a) eat puddings; and (b) watch Eastenders. Pu...

In the 1990s the BBC ran a very successful sitcom called "One Foot in the Grave" about the trials and tribulations of a grumpy ...

In haste at half time between Germany and Australia, one of the biggest talking points of Dois Mil e Dez so far has been the vuluv ..., vez...