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This year’s Carnival might have been chilly but the masses still turned out in force to enjoy the celebrations.

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GNR police registered close to 1,000 crimes of animal neglect in 2017.

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A new study has found that Portugal’s women are adopting increasingly risky behaviours in terms of drugs and alcohol consumption, particularly the more mature women.

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ANGLOPRESS Edições e BRENDAN DE BEER This year’s Carnival might not have been as w Publicidade, Lda N festivities in the north and centre of the count Copyright ©2005 Anglo Press century Lda. The Portugal News is force to enjoy the celebrations. part of the Portugal News Group established 1977. The Portuguese economy in 2017 grew quicker than the Depósito Legal Nº 80258/94 european union average, and also recorded the fastest DIRECTORS growth since the beginning of the millennium. This growth Paul Allen-Luckman [email protected] comes only three years after Portugal emerged from a Madeline Luckman painful and austerity-laden bailout. [email protected] CONTACTS flash estimate by now grown for the past 15 for 2017 were for growth of Postal Address: Statistics Portugal consecutive quarters. 1.7 percent, making the Apt 13 • 8401-901 • Lagoa A(INE) said this João Borges de Assunção, final outturn a “good re- Courier Address: week that Portu- a professor at Lisbon’s sult”. Rua Município de S. gal’s gross domestic prod- Catholic University, in com- Ascensão Costa also high- Domingo Urb.Lagoa Sol • uct (GDP) had increased ments to Lusa News lighted faster growth in Lote 3 r/c from 1.5 percent in 2016 to Agency this week, said the private consumption, 8400-415 Lagoa 2.7 percent last year. latest numbers represent which is seen up 2.5 per- ClassifiedClassified: +351 282 380 315 The Portuguese statistical one of the “healthiest [rates cent, as well as in invest- agency attributed this ex- of growth] since Portugal ment, “which went from Sales: +351 282 380 310 ceptional growth to an entered the single cur- growth of one percent in Accounts: +351 282 343 653 increase in domestic de- rency” in 1999. 2016 to nine or ten percent mand, especially invest- António da Ascensão in 2017”. NewsdeskNewsdesk: +351 282 380 313 ment, while the contribu- Costa, a professor at Lis- The chief economist at General: +351 282 341 100 tion of net external demand bon’s Higher Institute of mutual Montepio Geral, Email: remained unchanged. Economy and Manage- Rui Serra, meanwhile told [email protected] The latest figures follow an ment (ISEG), meanwhile the news agency that growth had accelerated Web: extended period in which told Lusa that it was “prob- www.theportugalnews.com the economy failed to pro- able that with 2017 growth thanks above all to invest- duce any wealth, with the GDP in real terms [exclud- ment, “which grew at a PRINT & DISTRIBUTION Printers: country’s riches shrinking ing inflation effects] has good rate last year”, al- Unipress, Oporto in all years except one reached the levels of 2010, though this entailed more between 2008 and 2013. before the troika, that is imports of equipment, Print-run: 18,621 copies this edition The expansion of the before the budget crisis”, to resulting in a “slight nega- economy is also under- more than €179 billion. He tive contribution to net Distributors: VASP lined by the fact that it has noted that initial forecasts exports”. Member of apct audited circulation PRODUCTION € Publisher: Banks charge 5 million a day in commissions Paul Luckman [email protected] Portugal’s five main banks charged €100 million more last year in commissions than in 2016. Editor: Brendan de Beer The five in question, Caixa Geral de Two other large banks in Portugal Novo [email protected] Depósitos (CGD), BCP, Santander Totta, Banco and Crédito Agrícola, have not pre- It did rain on some pa- – went ahead as usual, to Photos: BPI and Montepio collected €1.88 billion sented their 2017 accounts yet. rades, such as in the delight of the throngs LUSA • Press Association in commissions, €102.8 million more than Bank commissions have been de- Mealhada, but that did little who pitched up in their the year before. bated widely in recent years as banks to dampen the spirits of thousands. SALES MANAGER Each of these banks charged an aver- have altered their prices and started carnival-goers. However, figures from Sónia Seixas age of €5 million a day in commissions charging for routine operations such as Towns and cities policing operations staged [email protected] last year. maintaining the account or money trans- throughout the country throughout the country over ACCOUNTS MANAGER BCP charged the most, collecting €666.7 fers) to compensate for a drop in other exploded with hot Latin the carnival long weekend Gaby Rodrigues million from its clients from commissions, sources of income. rhythms, colourful skimpy are less pleasing, with [email protected] €22.9 million more than in 2016. TPN/Lusa outfits and showers of more than 40 people hav- streamers and confetti to ing been detained by PSP mark the time-honoured police in the 24 hours lead- WEATHER event, which is often seized ing up to the big event in to satirize national and Lisbon alone. global current affairs. A statement from the A few showers and slightly warmer temperatures This year the country’s force said between 9am processions ranged from Monday morning and 9am Seas and Oceans to Tuesday morning, opera- on the cards WebSummit themes. tions in the capital saw 44 Even though parties and people arrested for crimes The weather looks as if it will remain consistent for the weekend and coming week, with some parades had been held including drug trafficking, cloud around, maybe a few light showers towards the end of next week, and maximum over the weekend, the drink-driving, entering non- cloud around, maybe a few light showers towards the end of next week, and maximum pinnacle of carnival was on public places, and carrying temperatures a shade higher than they have been of late. Tuesday, which for many weapons. was an unofficial holiday. The GNR’s figures from Lisbon: The capital will be blan- South: The Algarve will also be North: After some heavier rain at Two of the country’s most its annual Carnival road keted by high cloud over the weekend, cloudy over the weekend and will also the end of this last week, even the famous parade’s – Torres safety operation are which will push maximum tempera- see temperatures rise slightly, to north is looking brighter and warmer Vedras, known as the ‘most equally as grim, with six tures up by a couple of degrees to highs highs of around 20 degrees Celsius for the foreseeable future. High cloud Portuguese carnival in deaths, 13 serious inju- of 18. The coming week will be bright for the foreseeable future. Showers on Sunday and Monday will clear up Portugal’ and which wel- ries and 292 walking- with some scattered cloud around, and are forecast for Tuesday, along with for a bright and sunny Tuesday, be- comed some 400,000 wounded during an op- possible light showers towards Thurs- lighter, scattered showers towards fore more cloud and light showers spectators, and Loulé, the eration that spanned from day and Friday. the end of the coming week. move back in from Thursday. ‘oldest carnival in Portugal’ last Saturday until mid- News The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 3 rave cold to being cheer to Portugal N News in Brief wet as forecast last week, when predictions were that rainfall could spoil Algarve ‘will have water for rest of year’ try, but it was cold, although that did little to deter the masses from turning out in Portugal is still crippled by drought but Algarve water com- pany Águas do Algarve has said the region will not suffer a shortage during the coming year. Multi-municipal company Águas do Algarve has said it will make sure the region is well supplied during the coming year both in terms of quantity and quality. The company said while there in enough water in the region’s dams to supply it in 2018, levels have been gradually decreasing, and it is necessary for the population to do what it can to save water. Fuel prices drop to 2018 low Fuel prices dropped to their lowest figure since the beginning of the year. International markets have seen petrol and diesel record substantial drops, with price reductions here slightly below those figures due to the dollar strengthening against the euro. Overall, unleaded fuel dropped by around 1.5 cents a litre whereas diesel saw its price come down by two cents a litre at pumps across the country. Portugal win Futsal European Championships Portugal are UEFA Futsal Euro winners for the first time after beating favourites Spain in last Saturday’s final in Slovenia. Portugal captain Ricardinho dominated the individual honours in a record-breaking personal tournament, and was elected player of the Euro. The European champions were welcomed by thousands of fans upon their arrival at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport. It was also announced that the squad will also be decorated at Belém Palace by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at a ceremony planned for next month. More than 1.3 million calls made to emergency medical number More than 1.3 million calls were taken by the Centre for Urgent Patients last year. This news was released by acci- dent and emergency service INEM, with Monday marking the European Day for the 112 emergency number. INEM ex- plained that people can call the 112 number in a number of emergency situations such as thefts or robberies, fires, acci- dents and sudden illness. The 112 number was created in 1991, and became the exclusive emergency number in the EU back in 2008. Skydiver seriously injured in Portimão after crashing into weather station A Saudi skydiver who jumped at Alvor aerodrome has been night on Tuesday. dents and deaths than Participants parade during the main procession of left seriously injured after crashing into a weather station upon The action clamped last year, having regis- Ovar Carnival, 11 February, 2018. landing. The incident happened on Sunday lunchtime and the down on popular carnival tered 962 crashes over (Photo: Lusa/Paulo Novais) 27-year-old was taken to Portimão hospital. This weekend the spots, and saw more acci- the four days. aerodrome will be hosting the 13th Freefly Championship. 4 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News Volta ao Algarve starts N News in Brief A total of 173 riders from 25 teams took to the road on Wednesday for the start Portugal set to emerge from ‘junk’ status of the 44th Volta ao Algarve. There are 19 riders from the top 100, including four Portugal seems set to have its junk credit rating removed in the coming months. Credit rating agency former winners of the race. Moody’s says it expected to upgrade Portugal’s sovereign debt from its current ‘junk’ status, thanks to “remarkable he 25 teams were improvements” in the public accounts and economy. presented before Moody’s is scheduled to review Portugal’s rating on 20 Tthe start of the first April and is the only leading international rating agency stage in Albufeira. that still rates Portugal’s debt as junk. The race itself started shortly after noon, ending Aljezur council helps finance work on after a 192-kilometre stage local fire-station five hours later in Lagos. Aljezur Council has given the local fire-brigade €80,000 The race takes place over for renovations and extension works on the station. The five days, with the stages amount equals the national tranche that should be between Sagres and invested in the project. Other financing, 85 percent of the Monchique, Lagoa, total is being sought from EU funds. New male and Almodôvar and Tavira female changing rooms will be created, along with other ending on Sunday with a operational areas, to modernize the original building, stage between Faro and which was inaugurated in 1989. Loulé. This year’s Volta ao Algarve Euromillions jackpot soars upwards cycling race is also being The jackpot in the Euromillions lottery has climbed to broadcast in 120 countries, a new figure of 151 million euros after no player and is being televised in managed to correctly select the winning numbers in five continents, to countries Tuesday night’s draw. The best result in the draw, which including New Zealand, was worth 138 million euros, was four second places Japan, and Canada. In claimed by players outside of Portugal. The highest Portugal the race will be winnings here were for 35,000 euros, collected by two Slovenian Primoz Roglic Lotto NL-Jumbo team celebrates his victory last year in the 43rd covered on Eurosport2 and players who won third prize. The winning numbers were Volta ao Algarve cycle tour. ´(Photo: LUIS FORRA/LUSA) TVI24. 10, 13, 17, 21 and 44 while the lucky star numbers were 1 and 10. Vilamoura Atlantic Tour 2018 gets Dog trainer admits to killing French-Portuguese girl underway The 16th edition of the Vilamoura Atlantic Tour 2018 got A former military dog trainer has confessed to “unintentionally” killing a nine-year-old underway today at the Vilamoura Equestrian Centre. It is French-Portuguese girl whose disappearance from a wedding party in the Alps last year prompted the biggest equestrian event in Europe and runs until 1 April. This year’s edition has attracted a record 1,200 nationwide concern and months of fruitless searching. participants, 200 of whom are Portuguese, and is expected to generate over €21 million for the region. Investigators at last had repeatedly denied investigators that he killed more than 200 potential found Maelys De Araujo’s wrongdoing. her accidentally, hid the witnesses, and hundreds of Government creates Circus animals skull and some other He was a guest at the body near his house and volunteers helped search working group remains on Wednesday in a same wedding in Pont-de- then returned to the the area for days. Portugal’s government has created a working group to snow-covered ravine six Beauvoisin, near the French wedding party. Police dogs found the look into putting an end to circuses that use animals. The months after she went mountain city of Chambery. He later dumped the girl’s scent but lost it in the Committee for Culture created the group this week after missing, according to Lelandais decided to child’s body in the remote wedding hall car park, the topic was debated in parliament in December with a Grenoble prosecutor Jean- come clean on Wednesday ravine. suggesting she may have view to reaching a decision next week. Some parties have Yves Coquillat. after investigators found His lawyer said Lelandais been forced into a vehicle or said the introduction of measures governing animals in Police were led to the traces of the girl’s blood in had let children at the got into one voluntarily. circuses should be gradual, while others are in favour of a remote site by chief suspect the boot of Lelandais’s car, wedding party look at dogs In his confession, full on ban. Nordahl Lelandais, who the prosecutor told he had in his car. Lelandais did not explain was arrested and charged reporters. After Maelys went the circumstances of the Portuguese cork oak nominated for after her disappearance but Lelandais told missing, police questioned girl’s death, the prosecutor European Tree of the Year said. “Lelandais asked A tree in Portugal has been nominated for European investigation judges to Tree of the Year. The Cork Oak is currently listed by the question him today, because Guinness World Book of Records as the biggest in the he had revelations to make,” world. The 14-metre high cork tree is located in Águas the prosecutor said. de Moura, in Palmela, Setúbal, and is a whopping 234 Afterwards, the prosecutor years old. said, Lelandais apologised New attraction at Alcalar Megalithic to the girl and her parents. Monuments site His lawyer Alain Jakubowicz described The Alcalar Megalithic Monuments site in Alvor, surprise at hearing Portimão, has unveiled a new tomb. Named tomb 9 by Lelandais’s confession of archaeologists, the new attraction is in the final stages of Maelys’s “accidental death”, preparation before being opened to the public. Despite but did not give further details being approximately 4,000 years old, Tomb 9 is thought about what happened. to be one of the more recent ancient finds, being 200 to The lawyer said he was 300 years younger than other monuments it shares the dropping his request for site with. Lelandais’s release. New firestation for Olhão brigade “I’m a father. Nothing worse can happen to you as Olhão’s local fire-brigade is to have a new fire station. a parent,” he said, choking Budgeted at €1.3 million, a tender for the building’s up. construction is being launched in April. The new Lelandais is also now municipal fire station will be located on land belonging to suspected of killing a soldier the Council in the eastern part of the city, near the A22 months before in the same junction. A project for the station has already been drawn region. TPN/PA up, and it will be mostly financed with community funds. The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 5 6 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News GNR register close to 1,000 animal crimes in

During the course of last year, the GNR police carried out several awareness-raising campaigns 2017 regarding the welfare and wellbeing of pets, as well as registering close to 1,000 crimes involv- ing animals, more than half of which were due to mistreatment.

ampaigns were by the GNR for cases of staged throughout animal cruelty to be re- Cthe course of the ported (Linha SOS year to raise Ambiente e Território, tel. awareness about public 808 200 520), which last health, responsible own- year took 3,942 ership, and to tackle situ- complaints. ations of abandonment The GNR also provides and neglect. training to owners of dogs Within that scope the considered dangerous or GNR logged 924 crimes potentially dangerous, as in the 12 months, of well as issuing certifica- which 588 involved ani- tions to dog trainers and mal cruelty and 336 were handlers of those breeds. cases of abandonment, Enrolments are open as well as issuing close online via website to 5,000 fines for non- www.gnr.pt, on the ‘cães compliance with laws for perigosos’ page. taking pets out in public, Special training for dan- During the namely a lack of compul- gerous and potentially- course of sory vaccinations and dangerous dogs was 2017, GNR proper registration of made a legal require- police dogs classified as being ment in Portugal in 2009. registered of a dangerous breed. Potentially-dangerous close to Last week, Lagos GNR dogs are dogs of a par- 1,000 crimes police rescued four dogs ticular build and nature of animal from neglect. that could cause injury or cruelty. The dogs were visibly death to humans or ani- (Photo: supplied) skeletal and chained up mals. There are seven outside a property in the listed breeds considered region. Their 24-year-old potentially-dangerous female owner has been from the offset – the Bra- formally identified and zilian Fila, Dogo ‘Pets in Restaurants’ law coming into force reported to the courts. Argentino, Pitbull terrier, A new law that will allow pets to be taken into compliant establishments has been approved in According to the GNR, the Rottweiler, American dogs were “in a rather Staffordshire terrier, Staf- parliament and will come into force in May. debilitated and under- fordshire bull terrier and The law was unanimously agreed being published in the Government will, and animals are banned from nourished” state. They the Japanese Tosa Inu. upon and passed last Friday, and will Gazette, which means it should be areas where food is served or kept. have been placed in the Dangerous dogs are allow pets to accompany their owners in effect from May. It is up to the owners of establish- care of the local kennel. those that have attacked into commercial establishments However, there are a number of ments whether they put aside a The GNR also said that a person, killed or injured such as shops and restaurants that rules to be abided by, such as the maxi- special ‘pet zone’ or make the en- last year 257 dog attacks an animal while out of its are properly-identified as being pet- mum number of animals allowed per tire premises pet-friendly, and were reported. owner’s possession, or friendly. establishment; that dogs must be kept guide dogs are an exception to the A special 24-hour have been declared so by It comes into force 90 days after on a short leash and not left to roam at rules. helpline has been set up the owner. The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 7 8 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News

Germany’s Fraunhofer NATO says Portugal’s growth to commit to allows for defence spending boost expansion of R&D activity in Portugal The secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Jens Stoltenberg, has called on Portugal to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute and take advantage of the economic growth that it is currently Portugal’s Foundation for Science enjoying to spend more on defence, while expressing and Technology (FCT) signed a confidence that all NATO members will be able to increase memorandum of understanding at spending to the agreed target of two percent of gross Thursday’s cabinet meeting in domestic product by 2024. Lisbon to expand the German institute’s presence and research Portugal has started to spending last year by NATO programme in Portugal. increase its defence members, saying that this was “budget and we see that, “much larger” than could have In a statement, the Fraunhofer said that with the economic growth been foreseen in 2014. the agreement “will not only renew the that it is recording, there is more “After years of decline, since research programme applied in Portugal, scope for increasing defence 2014 we’ve seen growth in in- but will also serve as a base for the crea- spending,” Stoltenberg said at a vestment in defence all across tion of new poles dedicated to research in news conference in Brussels on Europe,” he said. “National plans the area of precision agriculture in the Tuesday, on the eve of a meeting show that we can expect still universities of Trás-os-Montes and Alto of NATO defence ministers. greater growth. This year we Douro and of Évora”. The NATO secretary-general expected eight allies to attain the In 2007, the German institute and the recalled that each member has two percent goal, and by 2024 FCT signed an initial accord that led to submitted a plan outlining how it another 15 countries will do it.” the creation of Fraunhofer Portugal and will achieve the commitment While all this represents “sub- the constitution of its first R&D centre in made in 2014, when at a summit stantial progress”, he said, there Europe outside Germany, the in Wales the allies agreed that, is still a long way to go. Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center within a decade - to 2024 - they Stoltenberg also took the oppor- for Assistive Information and Communi- would ensure defence spending tunity to dismiss ideas that in- cation Solutions. reached two percent of GDP. creased investment in defence The accord to be signed this week aims At present, Portugal channels the by the European Union could at expanding the presence in Portugal of equivalent of 1.32 percent of lead to it competing with NATO in what claims to be “Europe’s leading ap- NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, gives a press GDP into defence. some way, saying that its efforts plied research organisation”, with “direct conference at alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 13 Stoltenberg hailed the five per- would be “complementary”. utility for private and public enterprises February 2018. (Photo: EPA/Olivier Hoslet) cent growth in overall defence TPN/Lusa and for society as a whole”. TPN/Lusa The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 9 10 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News Madeleine police ask for more funds Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have applied for more funding for the search.

he Home Office year until the end of confirmed that it is March. Tconsidering an More than €12 million application from has been spent so far on the Metropolitan Police for the probe to find the more money to keep the missing girl, who probe, called Operation vanished from the family’s Grange, going. holiday apartment in A spokeswoman said: Praia da Luz “The Home Office has in Portugal in May 2007, provided funding to the aged three. Metropolitan Police for Madeleine’s parents Operation Grange and the Kate and Gerry McCann, British police resources required are of Rothley, Leicestershire, have requested reviewed regularly, with have vowed never to give more funding in careful consideration up hope of finding their their search for given before any new daughter. Madeleine funding is allocated.” In 2011, the Met Police McCann, who went missing in Government funding for launched its own the Algarve in the investigation has been investigation into what 2007. (Photo: AFP agreed every six months, had happened to the Photo / Family with over €170,000 being toddler. Handout) granted from October last TPN/PA

European Parliament to shrink post Brexit TTTAP cancels London City flights following discovery of WWII bomb The European Parliament should shrink from 751 to 705 MEPs when the UK leaves the EU, whilst leaving room for possible new countries joining in the future. On Monday, National flag carrier TAP was forced to cancel its two daily flights to London City Besides reducing allocation would apply only if the 705 while ensuring no loss of Parliament’s size from 751 to UK actually leaves the EU. seats for any member state. airport after a 500kg undetonated WWII bomb 705 elected representatives, a Otherwise the current Currently under-represented was found in the River Thames, in the vicinity of proposed re-distribution of arrangements would stay in countries will get 27 of the 73 UK seats, approved by the place until further notice. seats available after the UK the airport, triggering its evacuation, closure, Parliament as a whole on A proposal by the leaves the EU. This will make Wednesday, would also place Constitutional Affairs Committee the European Parliament a and all flights to be grounded or re-routed. 46 of the 73 UK seats to be freed calling for a number of MEPs to fairer reflection of the citizens it up by Brexit, in a reserve. be elected from an EU-wide represents”. The airport reopened on Tues- heavy attack during WWII. Some or all of the 46 seats in electoral constituency, was Now that this legislative day after being shut down 24 It has been estimated that up to the reserve could then be rejected by the full House. initiative has been approved by hours earlier, following the dis- 16,000 passengers were reallocated to new countries The main proposal for a Euro- the full House, it will be put to the covery of the 1.5 metre German- affected by the closure. joining the EU or preserved to pean Council decision was ap- European Council (EU heads of made bomb during the early After being removed from the keep the institution smaller. proved by 431 votes to 182 with state or government) for a hours of Sunday morning. river by Royal Navy experts, the The remaining 27 British seats 61 abstentions. unanimous decision, and then The bomb was found at bomb was taken to a safe should be re-distributed among Portuguese MEP, Pedro Silva returned to Parliament for a final George V Dock on Sunday during location to be detonated. the 14 EU countries that are Pereira said: “This vote is an yes/no vote. The composition of planned work at the east London London City is the smallest of the slightly under-represented, to important step forward for the European Parliament for airport. five London airports, and frequently even out current inequalities in European democracy. The new 2019-2024 is one of the topics A security perimeter was set up used by business travellers flying to their representation in the allocation of seats means that expected to be debated by EU around the airport, whose runway and from destinations such as House, say MEPs. we will reduce the overall leaders during the informal EU runs alongside the river and is in a Frankfurt, Luxemburg, Brussels or They also stress that this number of MEPs from 751 to summit later this month. part of the city that came under New York. News The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 11 Portugal to have Kamov helicopters ‘operational’ by forest fire season Portugal’s Ministry of Internal Administration has said that it expects three Kamov helicopters that have been used to help fight forest fires in recent years to be operational in time for this year’s fire season, although they are currently out of action.

f the state’s three heavy Agency, the ministry explains that helicopters, one has the two Kamovs that are currently Ohad mechanical prob being repaired are being given lems since 2012, while their 10-year revision. The third is the other two have been awaiting operational, “although unavailable repairs since 2015 - none of these owning to lack of certification of a form part of the firefighting forces. component by the aeronautics The remaining three Kamovs that authority” and is set to go on for its are included in the force are also 10-year revision this month. currently out of action - two for However, the ministry says, these maintenance and the other be- three Kamovs “should be opera- cause of “lack of certification”. tional for [use] in fighting fires” A Kamov helicopter takes water from a river to help extinguish a forest fire in Viseu. In comments to Lusa News this year. TPN/Lusa (Photo: EPA/Nuno Andre Ferreira) Europe tourism keeps growing Police find cocaine in fake buttocks Europe welcomed 671 million international tourist arrivals in Police in Portugal have detained a man at Lisbon’s international airport 2017, translating into annual growth of eight percent when accused of carrying 1kg of cocaine in fake buttocks. compared to 2016. This means that Europe has, for the eighth Local media said the Brazilian citizen had Police said the drug seized would have arrived on a flight from the city of Belém, in been enough to make 5,000 individual consecutive year, been the leading destination worldwide. northern Brazil. It was not immediately clear doses of cocaine, but did not give an esti- how police discovered the case. mate of how much the quantity was worth. According to the latest Slovenia and Cyprus (both of notable arrivals growth European Travel Commis- +15 percent) also boosted for several European des- sion’s ‘European Tourism growth and have proved tinations aided by encour- 2017 - Trends and Pros- their success in overcom- aging economic condi- pects’, regional expansion ing seasonality. tions that support private was supported by the eco- Finland (+14 percent) consumption. nomic growth in major enjoyed a solid increase Russian outbound travel source markets and the fuelled by Chinese and has picked up following recovery of destinations Indian arrivals. years of declines. All but previously affected by secu- Established summer one of the reporting rity concerns. Almost all destinations Croatia (+14 destinations enjoyed a monitored destinations saw percent), Portugal (+12 strong rebound in arrivals increases in tourist arrivals percent) and Spain (+9 from this market. Despite with more than a half grow- percent) also saw healthy some recent softening, a ing in excess of ten percent. growth. stronger US dollar and “The upturn in the global In Spain, political ten- competitive air fares have economy paves the way to sions in Catalonia seem not contributed to growth in reorient European and have weighed down tourism tourist arrivals from the US, national policy to support demand while improved air up +12 percent in 2017 the drivers of tourism connectivity continues to compared to 2016. growth, promote long-term underpin Portugal’s strong In China improved air con- sustainable development performance. nectivity and its expanding and be a more effective Growth from the UK middle class continue to catalyst for job creation largely continued despite a drive travel demand. In in Europe,” said Eduardo weakened Pound with sev- 2017, Europe saw a re- Santander, Executive Di- eral destinations posting markable 16 percent in- rector of ETC. double-digit increases. crease from China, com- Turkey (+28 percent) France and Germany pared to the flat growth in experienced an impressive continued to be a source 2016. TPN/PA rebound in visitor arrivals with growth largely driven by Russian outbound flows (+465.2 percent). Ice- land (+24 percent), the fastest growing destination since 2012, showed robust results while its govern- ment considers measures to address “over tourism”. Destinations in South- ern/Mediterranean Europe Montenegro (+19 percent), Serbia (+18 percent) Malta (+16 percent), 12 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News Portuguese join in national Gold visa number slump in January UK day to celebrate migrants Investments related to the so-called gold visa scheme in This Saturday (17 February) will see the ‘1 Day Without Us’ campaign Portugal fell 29 percent year-on-year in January to €99.2 million euros, according to figures from the Immigration holding its second national day of action in solidarity with migrants in and Borders Service (SEF). the UK. In the first month of the year, the granted, of which 154 were in investment resulting from the return for real estate investments. Residence Permit for the Nine gold visas were granted Investment Activity (ARI) system, in return for capital transfer and also known as the Gold Visa one visa was granted for the scheme, totalled €99,169,840.74, creation of at least 10 jobs. down 29.9 percent compared to In accumulated terms - since January 2017 (€141,250,454.23). the gold visas scheme was Compared to December 2017, launched on 8 October, 2012, when ARI investment totalled until January - the total €30,403,224.2, the figure for investment raised by the ARI January more than tripled (226 reached €3,510,435,683.13 . percent). China leads the list of granted Of the total amount raised last residence visas (3,645 by month, the majority is related to January), followed by Brazil investment in property (493), South Africa (228), Russia (€90,038,633.75), while capital (200) and Turkey, which was transfer reached €9,131,206.99. listed for the first time in January, In January, 164 gold visas were with 131 visas. TPN/Lusa Portugal sets new record with close to 21 million tourists in 2017 Portugal last year welcomed a record 21 million tourists, which is a new all-time high for the sector, as well as notching up more overnight stays and more revenue.

The number of overnight stays percent in 2017 (up 11.5 percent grew again, with hotels having on 2016) and totalled 41.6 accommodated more foreign million overnight stays”, the INE and national tourists, according said in this week’s bulletin. to figures released this week by Total income from hotels Migrant groups, including those from the Portuguese community will be taking part in a day to celebrate the National Statistics Institute. amounted to 3.39 billion euros, immigrants this Saturday across the UK. (Photo: FeralX/Steve Eason) The overall number of tourists benefiting from an improvement that stayed in Portugal’s hotels in the results of all regions of the ommunities across residents vote to stay in the National organiser Laura last year grew by 8.9 percent on country, with best results being Britian will be putting on European Union during the Stringhett explains: “I, like many the year before, to 20.6 million, obtained in July and August Cevents proclaiming the Brexit referendum. others, moved to London close enough to the 21 million (€428 million and €502 million campaign slogan Meanwhile, and as part of the because it was a multicultural, benchmark that has this week euros). ‘Proud to be a migrant/Proud to preparation for the campaign in vibrant and welcoming city. been announced as a new The average stay, which had stand with migrants.’ London, the 1 Day Without Us These projections should remind record. been increasing for two A group of Portuguese London group has us that centuries of migration Overnight stays rose to a total of consecutive years, however residents from ‘Little Portugal’ in commissioned a series of have made London what it is 57.5 million, boosted by foreign declined in the last year. In 2016, London have confirmed they will projections onto Tower Bridge, now: a very unique and special visitors, who made up 72.4 tourists stayed, on average, 2.82 be participating, after a call to The Tate Modern and Waterloo place. To continue to be one of percent of nights spent in nights in the country, and action by Lambeth Deputy Bridge from the guerrilla the most dynamic cities in the Portugal’s hotel rooms. currently spend 2.79 nights, or Mayor, Guilherme Rosa. projectionist, FeralX, with pictures world, London has to attract and “External overnight stays slightly above in the Central and Lambeth saw 79 percent of its by photographer, Steve Eason. welcome migrants.” showed an increase of 8.6 Algarve regions. The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 13 14 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 News Portugal’s women increasingly turning to alcohol and cannabis A new study has found that Portugal’s women are adopting increasingly risky behaviours in terms of drug and alcohol consumption, and particularly more mature women.

sive frequencies and depend- However, it plugged the point ency” from 2012 to 2016/17, that there is a need to increase along with a “worsening in the supervision of selling to minors. female group and in the 25-34 SICAD elaborated “important and 35-44 years age groups.” health gains have been made in Conducted by the Intervention in terms of morbidity, in particular a Addictive and Dependent Be- decrease in hospital admissions haviours Service (SICAD), the with a main diagnosis of alco- document analyses the present holic hepatitis or cirrhosis”, but situation in Portugal in terms of did say that the frequency of alcohol and drugs, based on binge drinking has increased. statistics from 2016, and ages The recently-released report ranging from 15 to 74. revealed that cannabis was the However, SICAD stressed that, most commonly consumed based on the data available, drug in Portugal in 2016, with indicators relating to HIV and sixty-four per cent of cannabis AIDS infections associated with users surveyed by SICAD saying drug dependency and mortality that they consumed it four or are declining. more times a week, during the With regard to alcohol consump- year covered by the document. tion, the document highlights that In relation to other drugs, their it is now harder for younger use has remained stable or people to access drink, perhaps even decreased. in part due to a law change that SICAD stresses that the country Women are fast catching up with their male counterparts when it comes to alcohol and drug abuse, a new report has revealed. (Photo: Lusa/José Sena Goulão) came into effect in July 2015 remains below the European which makes all alcohol illegal to average values for the preva- ne of the main find- Addictions and Alcohol report drinking more alcohol. under-18s, and the onset of con- lence of recent consumption of ings in the annual was that women in the 25-44 The report warns of a “worsen- sumption among younger cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy OSolutions and Inter- age groups are taking more ing of cannabis consumption in populations is starting at increas- - the three most-consumed ventions for Drugs, drugs, namely cannabis, and the country” with “more inten- ingly later ages. substances. Portugal lacks strategy for higher education and science – OECD Portugal lacks a coordinated strategy for science, innovation and higher education, which leads to “inconsistent measures,” according to the conclusions of a preliminary report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD re-evaluated the sector in According to the summary of the report According to the OECD, the National Strat- projects, despite welcoming the tax incen- 2017, for the first time since 2006, at the and its recommendations, this approach egy for Knowledge and Innovation should tives granted to companies that invest in Portuguese Government’s request. leads to a duplication of efforts, inconsist- be the basis for a “new generation” of opera- research and development. The diagnosis and the recommenda- ent measures and different sources of tional programmes to support competitive- The final OECD report on the state of the tions made were presented at a public funding, especially in science and higher ness and “human capital.” These would be scientific, higher education and innovation session in Lisbon, attended by the Minis- education. supported by European funds for 2021- system in Portugal will be published in the ter of Science, Technology and Higher In the absence of a concerted strategy, 2028, and involve the ministers of Science, Spring. Education, Manuel Heitor, and Minister OECD experts call for a National Strategy Technology and Higher Education, Educa- Founded in 1961, the OECD is made up for the Economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral. for Knowledge and Innovation with clear, tion, Economy and Finance. of 35 countries, including Portugal, which According to the OECD, of which Portu- long-term guidelines for higher education, Despite the increased participation of was a founding member. gal is a member, the country has a “long science and innovation. Portuguese companies in programmes to The organisation’s mission is “to pro- tradition” of separating and differentiating According to the OECD, funding must be support innovation, national patent regis- mote policies to achieve sustained eco- policies for science and higher education predictable and set out based on trations remain below the OECD average. nomic growth and employment and to and supporting the transfer of knowledge multiannual frameworks reviewed every The OECD also calls for more system- improve the quality of life in the Member to companies. four to five years. atic direct State support for innovative States.” TPN/Lusa News The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 15 First batch of individual protection kit for € this week, Commanders of Portugal’s PSP, the police ‘cost 500,000’ main urban police force, received the first batch of 10,000 sets of individual protection equipment, costing a total €500,000, the Minis- try of Internal Administration said.

he handover of the kit, The 2017 law in question fore- Internal which is being issued sees total spending of €1 million Affairs Tunder a law approved on this first round of individual Minister last year, was marked protection equipment for the Eduardo on Monday with a ceremony in PSP, National Republican Guard Cabrita at a Santarém to be attended by Min- (GNR) and Foreigners and Bor- ceremony ister Eduardo Cabrita. ders Service (SEF). It also fore- during which According to ministry officials, the sees a further separate invest- PSP police equipment distributed to PSP ment this year of €1.5 million for were handed commanders is made up of high- the same purpose, officials note. equipment worth visibility jackets and individual According to the ministry, the €500,000. protection suits for use by mem- spending constitutes “the biggest (Photo: Lusa/ bers of the force’s prevention and investment in the last six years in Paulo Cunha) immediate reaction teams. this sector”. TPN/Lusa Dublin court holds hearing over death President to make state visit to Greece from 12 to 14 March of Portuguese fighter Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is to make a state visit to A Dublin court has found that a Portuguese MMA fighter who died after a Greece from 12 to 14 March, at the invitation of that country’s president, fight sustained 41 blows to the head during the contest. according to a draft resolution before parliament. According to the Irish Sun, João lance amid chaotic scenes. The dad-of-two MPs voted in favour of Sousa’s first visit to His first state visits were Carvalho, aged 28, was rushed to the died in a Dublin hospital two days after the “assenting” to the head of Greece of any kind since to the Vatican, Spain, nearest emergency department unse- fight. The court ruled the cause of death state’s trip, in a formality taking office as president Mozambique and cured on the floor in the back of an ambu- was blunt force trauma to the head. that is normal. It will be de in March 2016. Morocco. 16 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 BusinessNews

Portugal Portugal exports rise, imports up household Exports and imports increased “significantly” in 2017, by 10.1 percent and 12.5 percent compared to the previous year, with earnings still the trade deficit increasing to €13.843 billion at the end of the year, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported. below 2008

ccording to INE, in 2016, while the 12.5 per- €13.843 billion, a rise of cants, exports and imports The same figures showed levels the 10.1 percent cent rise in imports is a €2.622 billion over the grew by 9.1 percent and that trade between China Portugal is one of the Aincrease in ex “marked acceleration” com- previous year, leading to a 10.7 percent respectively in and the Portuguese-speak- Portugal is one of the ports in 2017 pared to the growth of 1.5 decrease in the coverage 2017 (+2.3 percent and ing countries totalled few countries where represents a “significant percent the previous year. rate of 1.8 percentage +5.1 percent in 2016) and US$117.588 billion last household earnings acceleration” compared to At the end of 2017, the points to 79.9 percent. the trade deficit was year, or an increase of 29.4 the increase of 0.8 percent trade deficit reached Excluding fuels and lubri- €9.754 billion, or an in- percent year-on-year. are still under 2008 crease of €1.665 billion Brazil is China’s main trad- levels, the European compared to 2016. ing partner among the Por- Commission (EC) said This follows news that tuguese-speaking coun- this week in a report Portugal exported products tries, with trade of this week in a report to China worth US$2.128 US$87.534 billion. China on employment and billion in 2017, an increase acquired products from the social situation in of 34.69 percent on year, Brazil worth US$58.302 the European Union. when trade between the billion and Brazil sold goods two countries decreased worth US$29.233 billion. The report said that the overall by 0.17 percent, Between China and Brazil, financial situation of EU officials said. trade increased by 29.5 per- families continued to im- Official figures published on cent, with imports from China prove at about 1.5 percent the Forum Macau website increasing by 28.4 percent a year driven by higher and based on the statistics and sales to Brazil growing wages and that almost all of the Chinese Customs by nearly 32 percent. Member State countries Services, show Lisbon sold China established the had seen household in- products to Beijing worth Macau Special Administra- come go up except Portu- US$2.128 billion (about tive Region as a platform gal, Croatia, Greece, Italy, €1.7 billion), while China for economic and trade Spain and Holland. exported products to Portu- cooperation with Portu- The biggest drops in gal worth US$3.480 billion. guese-speaking countries unemployment were in Although trade totalled in 2003, the year it also Portugal, which fell 2.4 US$5.608 billion, generating created Forum Macau, percent to 7.8 percent and a surplus for China, Portugal which meets at ministerial Greece, which dropped 2.7 paid China 13.81 percent level every three years. percent to 20.7 percent. less by value in 2017. TPN/Lusa TPN/Lusa Portugal’s growing economy has seen double-digit increases in both exports and imports in 2017 when compared with the previous year. (Photo: Lusa/ Mário Cruz) IRS 2017 - Taxation of Income Nº 4 Income from Capital - Dividends (Category E) Income is reported in different categories: A) Salaries, B) Sole Traders, E) Capital, F) Property, G) Capital Gains and N H) Pensions and is taxable in Portugal regardless of its DENNIS SWING origin. For non-residents, only income actually arising in GREENE Portugal is subject to assessment. When assessing Company profits, taxation occurs at flat rate of 28% (tax is final like bank interest) in a two-stage process: first, the Company pays or Corporate Income Tax on its profits (IRC), then b) Englobamento - Reporting together with other Shareholders pay Individual Income Tax on these income at marginal rates (0 - 48%). distributed profits (now called dividends in IRS). In this case, withholding at source acts as a tax This assessment procedure is referred to as credit applied to final assessment due. “economic double taxation”. 2. Dividends paid by EU Companies Almost all countries in the EU have adopted one i) Tax Withheld at source: of several methods to mitigate “economic” double a) Assessment at source is limited by DTC’s taxation - some via the Company, some via the (Double Taxation Conventions); Individual. Regardless of the method, the end b) Balance of withholding is to be refunded as per result should be the same: dividends reported by DTC procedures; the Individual should be after the elimination of ii) Elimination on “Economic” Double Taxation any “economic” double taxation. - 2 options Subsequently, on “in-bound” dividends (from a) Englobamento - declaring only ½ of Dividend other EU countries), “international” double together with other income taxed at marginal rates taxation is eliminated according to the rules of the (0 - 48%; or respective Double Tax Convention (DTC). b) Tributação Autónoma - Declaring the full dividend - independent flat rate assessment at 28%; + Current Practice c) Elimination of “International Double Taxation”: To eliminate “economic” double taxation, apply international tax credit as per DTC; Portugal has adopted the “Half Income Tax 3. Dividends paid by Companies in other countries Method” (only 50% of reported dividends are worldwide subject to marginal income tax rates) minus a tax a) Reporting Income: declaring along with other credit for withholding tax at source. If one elects income (englobamento); to have dividends assessed autonomously from b) Assessment: at marginal rates (0-48%); other income, the full dividend is taxed at a flat c) International Double Taxation - Double Tax rate of 28% and no tax credits apply. Treaty rules apply. Next: Rental Income Different Assessment Scenarios Dennis Swing Greene is an International Tax 1. Dividends paid by Portuguese Companies Specialist and Chairman of euroFINESCO s.a. a) Tributação Autónoma - Withholding at source www.eurofinesco.com The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 17 18 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 WorldBusiness View

GWYNNE Jobs: Moravec’s Paradox vs. AGI N DYER Don’t bother asking if jobs are being lost to computers. Of course they are, and the current wave of populist political revolts in Western countries is what Luddism looks like in an era of industrialised democracies.

France and Germany. The same elled on the human brain. phenomenon may well play a big Horoshi Yamakawa, a Japan- part in Italy’s election next month. based leader in AGI, sees two And the robots are soon going to advantages to this approach. be able to take out the rest of the “The first is that since we are People walk jobs too. Moravec and his col- creating AI that resembles the past the Artificial leagues were working with the human brain, we can develop Intelligence computers of thirty years ago, AGI with an affinity for humans. (AI) banking which were really simple-minded Simply put, I think it will be easier system and single-minded. Today’s and to create an AI with the same during the tomorrow’s AI is running on com- behaviour and sense of values as 21st World puters that are orders of magni- humans this way.” Congress on tude more powerful, and that “Even if superintelligence ex- Information allows them to do different things – ceeds human intelligence in the Technology like ‘deep learning’, for example. near future, it will be compara- (WCIT) in Taipei, The operating instructions don’t tively easy to communicate with AI Taiwan, only come from the top (human designed to think like a human, staged last beings) any more. More and and this will be useful as ma- autumn. more often, the AI is told what the chines and humans continue to (Photo: EPA/ result should be, and works out live and interact with each other.…” Ritchie B. how to get there for itself by ‘deep Feeling reassured now? learning’, a trial-and-error proc- Thought not. There’s never much he right question to ask Often the newly unemployed find reach of the robots. No surprise, ess that only becomes feasible reassurance to be had when is: what KIND of jobs other work, but it is generally in really: those skills in human be- when you have a number- thinking about the future. Most of Tare being lost? the low-income service sector. ings are the products of a billion crunching capability magnitudes the jobs are going to go sooner or Moravec’s Paradox These disinherited lower-middle- years of evolution, and indeed greater than in the 1980s. later, including the skilled predicted the answer almost 30 class and upper-working-class are largely unconscious in us. Then the path opens to (among manual jobs and the high-level years ago. people are the foot-soldiers of the So the jobs that robots can most other things) Artificial Intelligence management jobs that presently Right now, it’s the jobs in the populist revolutions. easily take are mid-level manage- that has human-level sensory seem safe. We’ll have to get used middle that are at risk of disap- Back in the 1980s, Hans Moravec, a ment jobs and semi-skilled, highly and motor skills. Not right away, to that, just like our recent ances- pearing. Not high-level profes- pioneer researcher in artificial intel- repetitive manual jobs – and there of course, but in due course. tors had to get used to working in sional and managerial jobs that ligence (AI), made the key observa- goes the middle-class meat in the There go the rest of the jobs, you cities not on farms. require sophisticated social and tion that “it is comparatively easy to sandwich. What’s left is a small might think, and certainly a lot will But maybe the robots will grow intellectual skills and pay very make computers exhibit adult level group of rich people (who own the go. There goes the need for human up to be our colleagues, not our well. Not poorly-paid jobs in de- performance on intelligence tests or robots), an impoverished mass of beings altogether, the more pessi- overlords or our successors. If we livery or the fast-food industry playing checkers, and difficult or people who provide them with mistic will think, and maybe that’s take the trouble to design them either, although automation will impossible to give them the skills of services of every kind or have no true too. But the latter outcome is that way, starting now. eventually take jobs in the service a one-year-old when it comes to jobs at all – and a level of resent- still a choice, not an inevitability. industries too. perception and mobility.” ment in the latter that is rocket fuel A significant number of AI spe- But the middle-income, semi- The paradox is that activities like for a populist revolution. cialists are now working on what Gwynne Dyer is an skilled jobs, mostly in manufac- high-level reasoning that are This dystopian vision is common- they call ‘artificial general intelli- independent turing or transportation, that used challenging for human beings place nowadays, pushed to the gence’: AGI. Rather than teach a journalist to sustain a broad and prosper- are easy for robots endowed with top of the agenda by Brexit in the machine to use symbolic logic to whose ous middle class are dwindling AI. Simple sensory and motor UK, the election of Donald Trump answer specific kinds of ques- articles are fast. Western societies are being skills that are easy for the average in the US, and neo-fascist elec- tions, they are building artificial published hollowed out by automation, just one-year-old child, on the other tion successes (though not yet neural networks and machine- in 45 as Moravec’s Paradox predicts. hand, are far beyond the current victories) in the Netherlands, learning modules loosely mod- countries. Motoring The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 19

Having dominated the electric vehicle mar- Nissan turns out a new Leaf ket since its initial release, the Nissan Leaf is back - but can it pick up where it left off?

his is the new Nissan out using the brakes. It’s easy these cars will be driven, it’s quiet and the dashboard plastics have car priced at just under €31,000. Leaf, the second gen- to use and really helps to extend and stress-free. In fact, wind and a more expensive look to them, In the face of increased competi- Teration of the bestselling range. tyre noise are kept to a minimum even if they are still quite hard to tion, Nissan has really stepped electric vehicle. It’s The second generation Leaf even at motorway speeds, which the touch. One negative is the up to the plate with the new Leaf. loaded with advanced technol- debuts the fourth generation of is admirable with no internal large pillars in the corners of the On the face of it, it looks better, ogy, has a new look and a longer Nissan’s electric powertrain. combustion engine to mask the car - they impinge on front and goes further and provides better range. Nissan says 12,000 or- With a 40kWh battery, up from sound. rear visibility quite considerably, value, but the improvements go ders have been taken since it 30kWh, the system makes 150hp To put it politely, the old Leaf had which isn’t ideal for a city car. further than that. The ride is com- was revealed three months ago, and 320Nm of torque, and is a polarising design; the awk- Electric vehicles are notoriously posed and there’s a real sense of with 7,000 of those being from plenty punchy out on the road. ward, bulbous styling did nothing more expensive than petrol and refinement from a decent interior previous Leaf owners. It’s also What’s more important though, is to fight the mainstream buyer’s diesel models, but that’s begin- and lack of noise intrusion from the poster child for Nissan’s ‘In- the fact that range has now in- perception that electric vehicles ning to change, with the new outside. It steers well enough telligent Mobility’ ecosystem. The creased to 380 kilometres on the aren’t to be taken seriously - Leaf’s starting price cheaper and the electric motor provides Japanese firm is branching out to standard NEDC cycle (though though it didn’t harm sales than before. enjoyably punchy acceleration. promote a more sustainable Nissan prefers to tout the 285- among EV buyers. The second Nissan Portugal are currently As an overall package the new society, using renewable energy kilometre figure, which comes generation car moves the game only selling the Leaf in the Acenta Leaf is impressive - expect its and allowing owners to plug their from the new, more realistic on substantially. It’s a handsome trim level, but offering a discount domination of the pure EV market vehicles into the grid to support WLTP combined cycle testing). looking vehicle, with a sharply close to €3,000 which leaves the to continue for some time. the national network. Coupled with the e-Pedal, this is styled front end that works better Pretty much everything is new, entirely achievable, particularly if in front of you than it does in pic- from the uprated battery and you resist the urge to really make tures. What’s perhaps more im- motor system underneath, to the the most of the high-torque ac- portant is that now it looks like a styling of the exterior and interior. celeration the motor offers. serious car that ordinary people There’s also Nissan’s ProPilot Few C-segment rivals - at least could buy, not an oddball EV that semi-autonomous driving assist- those that promote low running takes some explaining. ance features, which appear in costs – could keep pace with the The interior’s vaguely similar to the UK for the first time here on Leaf off the line. The instant that of the old Leaf, but it’s been top-spec cars - one of these is torque from the electric motor is improved in just about every way. essentially adaptive cruise con- incredibly satisfying, and useful The central tablet-like display trol and the other parks the car when darting into gaps in traffic embedded into the dashboard itself. The other standout feature or making an overtake. Attack a features a larger screen at seven is e-Pedal. It’s a glorified version winding back road and the inches and menus are easy of the driving mode found in weight of the batteries quickly enough to navigate, though the many electric vehicles that ramps overcomes the low-grip graphics are a bit outdated. Else- up the regenerative braking ef- economy tyres making swift where, the new flat-bottomed fect, but here it’s tuned so that progress hair raising. But around steering wheel, with a slim central 90% of driving can be done with- town, where the vast majority of hub, adds a more premium feel, 20 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Letters to the Editor

Re: Scandalous dinner and produced The opinions expressed here are those of our readers smiles, obrigados and and not necessarily of The Portugal News. The editor Let’s Walk in the Algarve even the odd tear. The staff reserves the right to edit letters or refuse publication. EN125 Tuesday 20 February – up into the hillsides, with the were amazed when we SIR, Having just read the Send your letters, which must include your Let’s Walk in the Foothills: spring flowers begininning to article about the scandal- presented them with a name and full postal address and should A moderate walk of about 2.5 appear. 10.30am start. Meet by ous EN125 as described by hamper of treats to thank N preferably be under 300 words, to: hours in the hidden foothills of the church in the centre of the vil- the head of Portugal’s them for all their hard work The Portugal News, Apartado 13, 8401-901 Monchique – magical. There are lage. Drive to Loulé and take the Automobile Club, I feel I during the year. Lagoa. Email: [email protected] some gentle climbs and amazing ring road around the town and must reply. However this is not all that views to enjoy! 10.30am start. then the exit for Querença/ Having lived and driven in we have to thank people Meet at the Café do Manel. Exit Barranco Velho (EN396). After Portugal for 10 years now, I for. The activity room in the frequent what is left of the 2. What qualifications do the A22 for the autódromo / Mx about 6.5km turn left for think the improvements Home caught fire and the building. they have? In the UK, the Grande or turn right at the Querença and after about 300m made on the 125 are insurance would not cover Previously, when building FCA insists that IFA’s must roundabout on the EN125 after left again signed ‘Querença’ – the Mx Grande and follow signs for church is at the top of the hill excellent. However I do the cost of the repairs. Peo- work has been done that obtain QCF level 4 issued sympathise with certain ple rallied round and the would disturb a stork’s nest, the autódromo, at the rounda- with cafés close by. by recognised institutions. bout by the entrance take first Next walk: Tuesday 27 Feb- comments I hear. room was repainted, re- the builder had to move it or 3. Who they are regulated For example, on my local wired, an airconditioner provide an alternative site. exit right (Alcalar). After about ruary - Let’s Walk on the cliff by and where can you get 2km take the road to the left for tops near Salema. Details next bit of the 125 through and items of furniture were This was done when the information from the regu- Casais and Monchique. Drive issue. Alcantarilha, from the Aldi donated and the arts and storks were moved for the lator? Steer clear if they are crafts materials were for about 3km when you come There is no need to book please roundabout to the Armação new Câmara building, and a unregulated! to a T-junction, to the left just just come along wearing shoes roundabout, the putting of largely replaced through new chimney was provided. 4. Ask about the mis-sell- donations, so a big thank around the bend is the café on the suitable for country walking and bollards down the middle I am not aware that their ing history of the advisor right. please bring a sense of humour! you for these things too. means you cannot move protected status has and company anywhere in Friday 23 February – Let’s There is a nominal charge of €5 over for the Emergency Also the donations through- changed, and if not why is the world. There are no Walk from Querenca: An per person which includes a services to pass. out the year of towels, this project destroying their penalties for serial offend- easy /moderate walk of just over donation to charity. If the weather This is the same on other bedlinen and curtains have nests right at the beginning ers either nationally or 2.5 hours to the Fonte de looks doubtful please call stretches of the road. made life easier for staff of the breeding season. internationally. The indi- Benemola and beyond, climbing beforehand - Julie 965 753 033 Most of the accidents are and residents, so thank you PAUL, By email vidual who lost me serious usually caused by drivers for these too. Please con- money is working in the overtaking at speed and tinue these donations, Advice industry in the UK. Bowls Algarve meeting head on. I have things do not have to be 5. Is the advisor an em- met a few coming my way new to be useful! SIR, I note the increase in ployee of the organisation A bright, sunny Saturday 10 Week eleven of the Super 10’s February morning for Algarve Competition has Albufeira con- on several occasions so We hope that we can con- marketing activity for inde- they represent? It may be these bollards certainly tinue to count on your sup- pendent financial advice bowlers. Closing in on the end of tinuing to hold the top slot with more difficult to obtain the League season and in League fifty-four points whilst Valverde make it safer in that respect. port, Christmas seems to companies. Having suf- compensation from the l can’t help but think if the come around more quickly fered serious loss when A, Albufeira Cats are at the top have forty-six points. company if they are agents with sixty-seven points, pulling The Cameron Cup came to an drivers had generally every year! mis-sold investments or franchisees, especially if away from Floresta Foresters on end this week, with Valverde slowed down a bit these JENNIFER A. HERRTAGE, whilst living here, I thought I the individual has left the By email would write a few caution- fifty-four points. In League B, taking the silverware on twenty- measures might not have country. Valverde Vipers are holding on to three points, managing to just ary words. been called for. 6. Ensure that the risk profile their lead with seventy-four beat Floresta to the top by only STEVE SMITH, Alcantarilha Storks displaced 1. Independent? UK advi- you complete is accurate points and Alvor Amigos are a single point. 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and I now know how difficult team their when, so do only should advice the giving person The Please send your letters to: written statement of the it is to get compensation. Answer: total amount and % rate of NAME AND ADDRESS [email protected] commission. WITHHELD, By email Miriam Hare Club & Community News The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 21 TOFFS first outing in 2018 CASA Lunch in Alvor MGAP Spring Fair This year’s Fifty CASA members and In addition to being able to first outing of the guests met in Alvor for lunch at the welcome several new members to TOFFS (The Old Pôr do Sol restaurant on Saturday the club at this lunch, we are also Fogies Friendly 10 February. We have used this expecting more to join at our Society) was held lovely restaurant a number of times AGM & Dinner which takes at Oitavos GC on over the years as we know it to place on 3 March at the Portimão Monday 5 Febru- provide consistently good food and Naval Club. Full details of this ary, where nine we were not disappointed. and all our planned events, which members of the We had several new members are also open to non-members, attending this lunch so were society took part. can be obtained from the club very pleased that everything website - www.casasocial.club After the game, worked well for them; in fact one or from Margaret Brito on 282 we headed for the of our newer members won the 495 475 or by email to Restaurante free raffle. [email protected] Tasquinha de Luís The Winners in Fontainhas, Once again, the MGAP the best plantings, colours and where we were joined for lunch lunch a few missing TOFFS (Mediterranean Gardening As- shapes to bring harmony and by another three active society badges were noticed, and these sociation Portugal) will be hold- balance to your environment and members and also ex-member were either hastily “found” or ing its annual Spring Fair on Sat- thus, to your life. Axel Beselin, in all totalling thir- compensated for by sharing the urday 3 March from 10am to The afternoon schedule will teen participants who were cost of some free tots of whisky 4pm at Quinta da Figuerinha, be concluded with a hosted visit present to congratulate the for everyone! The delicious near Silves. See www.qdf.pt for to the MGAP Barrocal Botanic day’s winners. First prize went lunch rounded off nicely a very directions. Garden, just a short walk from to David Wright with 30 points, pleasant day out. There will be excellent oppor- the plant stalls. winning on a countback from The next outing was an- tunities to buy the most appro- Weather permitting, Profes- second-placed Lars Ryberg, nounced for Quinta de Peru on priate plants for your garden and sor Celestino Ruivo, will be dem- to benefit from advice and guid- onstrating the fun of solar cook- while David Gray took third Monday, 2 April. ance from knowledgeable nurs- ing and offering the chance to place with 29 points. During Adi Hüttl, Captain 2018 ery suppliers. sample his delicious creations. It’s a rare occurrence to get the There also will be a range of chance to browse such a diver- organic produce and products World Day of Prayer 2018 sity of offerings in one location – for sale and of course the MGAP this can be invaluable to the keen stall, offering specialist garden- Women, men, and children in This year’s service will be held across the globe on the day of cel- in response to the concerns raised gardener seeking the very best ing books, wildflower seeds, more than 170 countries and re- on 2 March at 3pm at the Inter- ebration. Each year a different by the writer country. plants, shrubs, trees, and herbs. advice and information. gions will celebrate World Day national Christian Fellowship in country’s committee serves as For more information, con- After completing your pur- Entrance fee is €1 per person of Prayer on Friday 2 March. Portimão, followed by tea. St the writers of the World Day of tact the national office of World chases or if you need some time (under 16’s free) and there is free This year, the women of the Vincent’s are also holding a serv- Prayer worship service. And Day of Prayer USA to consider the choices available, on-site parking as well as the WDP Committee of Suriname ice at St. Lukes in Monte da each year, we are called to action (www.wdp-usa.org). you can enjoy one of the free popular plant crèche where you call us to worship considering Palhagheira. talks. can leave your purchases in safe the words “All God’s creation Invite your friends, family, This year there will be a pres- hands while you continue to is very good!” With these words and communities of faith to join Algarve Activity Bike Rides entation from Dr. Gerhard enjoy the many attractions of as a backdrop, we are invited to the women of Suriname in Zabel, the proprietor of Quinta the day. Here are the details of this Activity Algarve Bike Rides page. learn about Suriname’s history prayer and song to support ecu- da Figuerinha, on the subject of More information and up- week’s rides: If a ride has to be cancelled for any and rich cultural diversity. The menical efforts toward justice, drought and fire-resistance in dates will be posted on the Saturday 17 February - No reason, such as bad weather, women of Suriname share their peace, healing and wholeness. plants and trees. MGAP Facebook events page Ride due to work commitments. notification will be via text.We stories of intergenerational wis- World Day of Prayer is a The second presentation of www.facebook.com/events/ Sunday 18 February - Bike reserve the right to cancel any ride dom, traditions, and experi- worldwide ecumenical move- the day is from Christiane 177142883058782/ and the Ride starting in Boliqueime: if less than 5 people are signed ences of God’s profound love ment of Christian women of Grimm of Feng Shui Solutions. MGAP website www. We meet near Bolitasca at up.Price for participation is €5 and acceptance. The focus is on many traditions who come to- Christiane will be discussing a mediterraneangardingportugal.org 9.15am ready for a 9.30am start. per rider per ride. Genesis 1, the story of creation. gether to observe a common day different approach to the design Specific queries can be di- This will be a mostly easy ride For more information please The Bible study and worship of prayer each year on the first of our gardens and outdoor rected to Susan Finlay, fairs co- of around 35kms with a café contact Paul Beesley on tel: service invite us to explore is- Friday in March. World Day of spaces taking into consideration ordinator. [email protected] sues of climate change, natural Prayer was founded on the idea break somewhere along the way. 913226954, email: paul@ disasters, pollution, and human that prayer and action are insepa- If you would like to come algarvebikeholidays.com, abuse of the environment—all rable in the service of God’s king- along to one of these rides, see our website: www. Please send your Club or Community news to: affecting God’s good Creation dom. Services begin at sunrise in please confirm either by text, algarvebikeholidays. com, or and God’s people. the Pacific and follow the sun email or on Facebook via the Facebook: AlgarveBike Holidays. [email protected] 22 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Life & Leisure Eating Out & In Animal World First aid for your pet More than just a Thanks to the low-to-no alcohol trend - and If your pet swallowed something they shouldn’t, or was involved in an accident, would you know drinking less but better when we do - more and what to do under pressure? Many of us have a basic understanding of first aid for humans, but when more bars are adding imaginative and complex it comes to pets, lots of us wouldn’t know where to begin. variations to their non-alcoholic cocktail lists, According to the PDSA, life- to do so. and replicating the ritual of a well-made classic threatening emergencies Rebecca adds: “It’s also require speedy action, so important to be prepared (so no more sipping those overly sweet, without it’s important to know what for an emergency. So keep a trace of sour, concoctions...). to do should something a ‘pet-friendly’ first aid kit at happen to your pet. There home and with you while And if you fancy putting your Blood Orange and Sage are many veterinary-led travelling, in case an emer- own spin on a mocktail, Margarita First Aid courses for pets, gency should arise. This then Dry: Non-Alcoholic There is never a wrong and attending a course can you will be more likely to they have a pulse/heart- can include bandages, Cocktails, Cordials And time for a margarita in my help you prepare for and be able to help your pet if beat? A veterinary-led first wound dressings, tick re- Clever Concoctions, filled book. The wonderful tart, respond to emergencies. you remain focused. aid course will provide prac- mover, and a foil blanket, with dozens of inspiring salty tang of the drink is “Knowing how to respond Animals that are in pain tical CPR training. for example. recipes to help you experi- captured here and given in an emergency, and be- can bite or scratch. Ap- Call your vet. If something “Save the number and ment with some grown-up depth with the hibiscus ing prepared, can make proach them from the front happens to your pet, give address of your vet in your alternatives while you take syrup. The sage provides the difference between life so they can see you, talk your vet a call first. They phone and have it next to a break from booze, is the an aromatic back note. and death in some in- softly to them and if may need to give you vital your landline at home. If book for you. IIIngredients: 125ml blood stances”, says PDSA Vet needed use blankets to information, or they may you do need to call them in “A few of the recipes need a orange juice, 2tbsp freshly Rebecca Ashman. “There cover your pet’s head while want to get set-up for your a hurry, you won’t waste little forethought and some squeezed lime juice, 1tbsp are some basic precautions you are doing your checks arrival to save precious time searching. do include the odd unfamil- hibiscus syrup (see below), and steps that can be taken Check your pet for time. Keep a pen and pa- “Learning CPR for pets can iar ingredient, but most can 3 sage leaves (reserve one to stop things from becom- wounds, bleeding and any per to hand to be ready to be beneficial in some situa- be knocked up with what to garnish), wedge of lime, ing very serious, and poten- abnormal areas. If an area write down instructions of tions. Speak to your vet for you’re likely to have to hand Himalayan salt. tially life-threatening.” is bleeding excessively, what to do. advice on attending a vet- in the kitchen or garden,” Hibiscus syrup: 500ml To help pet owners get up bandage or wrap a towel Don’t let your pet have erinary-led first aid course, says author Clare Liardet. water, 90g white sugar, to speed, here are around the area. Nappies anything to eat or drink to learn how to deliver CPR Just remember, you’ll need 35g light brown sugar, 12g Rebecca’s top tips on first or sanitary towels placed unless your vet says it’s ok in the safest way.” a shaker, buckets of ice, dried hibiscus flowers, zest aid and what to do if an directly on the wound are and an eclectic set of glass- of 1 lemon. Add all the emergency should arise. good absorbers. PPPETSETSETS FORFORFOR ADOPTION ware; mocktails should ingredients to a pan and Don’t panic. If your pet is If your pet is unresponsive look as good as the real bring to the boil. Reduce involved in an accident, it’s check their ‘ABC’ vital signs: deal. Here are 4 recipes for heat and allow to simmer important to remain calm. A – check the Airway is clear, inspiration... until the sugars dissolve While seeing your pet in B – are they Breathing? C – pain will be distressing, check their Circulation – do

GEM is a young (9-months-old) JACOB is a happy, outgoing energetic girl; she is sterilised, dog, he is estimated to be about vaccinated, about 23kg and a year old, castrated, vaccinated desperate for a home. She needs and ready for his new home. If to go to dog school to learn some you are interested in this manners but will make a lovely cheerful chap please contact dog. Please contact Kerry on Kerry on 916731831. 916731831 Eating out & in Life & Leisure The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 23 Restaurant of the Week mocktail Saudade – Bursting with and flowers soften. Re- move from heat and steep the syrup for around five flavours and creativity minutes until the flavours combine. Strain the syrup Since opening last year in Faro Saudade has into a sterilised bottle gone from strength to strength, drawing on its through a fine-mesh sieve. passion for Portuguese gastronomy. Press any solid ingredients with the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible before discarding. Method: Put the blood orange juice, lime juice, hibiscus syrup and two sage leaves in a shaker with ice, and shake until chilled. If you like a salt rim, run a wedge of lime around the rim of the chilled glass and dip it on to a saucer spread and a ripe pear is a lus- from heat and allow to cool. with salt. Strain the mixture double cream, 250g good- Established by female strong point is good quality, cious and fragrant treat, Strain the syrup into a steri- into the glass and garnish quality dark chocolate, trio, Catarina Estevens, Portuguese gastronomy particularly when paired lised bottle. with the third sage leaf. grated. Put the cream in a Catarina Evaristo and and the attention given to with a hint of warm, woody Method: Combine the Method: pan and heat gently. Bring Patricia Vicente, Saudade traditional products. The rosemary. pear juice, lemon juice and Pomegranate Negroni just to the point of boiling was the combined dream whole restaurant overflows IngredientsIngredients: 60ml pear rosemary syrup in a cocktail The cherry concentrate and stop it from boiling of all three women, who with a Portuguese feeling, juice from 2 small pears, or shaker with ice, shake well. gives an extra layer but isn’t over. Add the grated choco- have brought together their making you feel like you’re good quality shop-bought Strain into a rocks glass and essential. However, I recom- late and whisk until culinary knowledge and at Grandma’s house. It is a pear juice (not from con- top with a splash of spar- mend keeping the cherry smooth. Transfer to a steri- passion for Portuguese welcoming place and we centrate), 30ml freshly kling water. Garnish with a concentrate in the fridge as lised container and store in gastronomy to showcase want our guests to feel that squeezed lemon juice, sprig of rosemary and a a sugar-free cordial. It’s also the fridge. It will keep hap- the best of what Portugal they are truly at home”, the 25ml simple herb syrup slice of pear. For a longer delicious with hot water. pily for up to a month, but has to put on the table. founders say. made with rosemary (see drink, add more water and a Ingredients: 200ml keep it well covered so it Now the team are cel- The restaurant itself is below), sparkling water, a dash of lemonade. pomegranate juice, 2tsp doesn’t absorb any fridge ebrating a year since open- located in an old traditional sprig of rosemary and slice Montmorency cherry con- flavours. ing the business on 17 house, renovated three of pear to garnish. Method: centrate, 3 good dashes of After Eight Martini Method: Put a tablespoon February 2017, with a spe- years ago, which still Simple Herb Syrup: 200g This is a real after-dinner Angostura Bitters, a twist of of ganache into a pan with cial dinner menu for only boasts original features sugar, 200ml water, 2 treat, rich and chocolatey orange peel. the cream and mint syrup, 10 euros per person, high- and a décor that are typical sprigs of rosemary. The with a hint of mint - it MethodMethod: Pour the pome- and heat very gently until lighting some of their best of the Algarve and Portu- intensity of a herb’s flavour doesn’t take long to make granate juice and cherry the ingredients are dishes including couvert, guese architecture. It is varies throughout the year, and is also delicious concentrate into a glass of blended. Allow the mixture garlic shrimps, alheira located in the historical so you might need to ex- whisked into a cup of hot ice, then stir well before to cool, then pour into a croquettes, curd tiborna part of the city, on a quaint periment - just use a tea- milk on a cold, grey after- shaking in the Angostura shaker with some cubes of with almond honey and backstreet. “We try to use spoon to test the strength noon. Bitters. The drink should ice, and shake. Pour the orange sand, mushrooms the best local products, as it simmers, and adjust Ingredients: 1tbsp have a bittersweet tang, so Ingredients: drink into a chilled Martini stuffed with farinheira and working in direct contact as necessary. Put the sugar chocolate ganache (see add more Angostura if glass and garnish with a sweet potatoes and all with professionals of the and water in a pan on a low below), 50ml double needed. Twist the orange sprig or leaf of mint. finished off with the house area. We try to use prod- heat, stirring constantly, cream, 30ml simple herb peel on top of the drink to Mousse Saudade. ucts like award-winning until the sugar dissolves. syrup made with mint (see release the oils. Recipes extracted from So much more than a Algarve olive oils, tinned Bring the syrup to a simmer, recipe above and replace Dry: Non-Alcoholic Cock- mere eatery, it brings to- foods from the Algarve, add the rosemary and con- rosemary with mint), mint Pear and Rosemary on the tails, Cordials And Clever gether a pastry shop and a honey from the Serra da tinue to simmer for a further leaf or sprig to garnish. Rocks Concoctions by Clare dining area. The restaurant Tavira, Castro Marim salt, five-10 minutes. Remove Chocolate ganache: 235ml This is an elegant drink Liardet. TPN/PA came to fruition as Faro among others”, the trio announced a wide-ranging elaborates, adding: “We revitalisation project that seek excellence in the aims to attract more na- products we serve, accom- tional and foreign visitors to panied by a “relaxed” but the city. Saudade – a Portu- personalised service and a guese word that famously very affordable price. Our has no direct translation intention is to promote our but roughly means ‘long- country and its character- ing’ or ‘to miss’ – serves istics, namely the gas- typical lunches and dinner. tronomy and the Lunches include tradi- hospitality.” tional dishes such as cod- Portuguese music fish á bras and duck rice. events, such as Fado These dishes are included nights or Portuguese gui- in a menu offering excel- tar, are also regularly held lent value for money, con- at Saudade, which has sisting of starter, main grown to become a truly course, drink, dessert and unique space for food coffee for only 7.90. lovers. The dinner menu con- Saudade is open daily sists of traditional Portu- from 12pm – 3pm and then guese snacks, such as from 7pm until midnight. octopus skewers, salads, Mention The Portugal stuffed mushrooms, and News when you visit and tibornas, among others, receive a free ginja liqueur! accompanied by quality For more information, national wines and please telephone: desserts. 964228358 or email: “We believe that our [email protected] 24 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Life & Leisure Gardening Up the garden path There are so many occasions where you look at your garden and wonder where to start. Often you think the only solution would be to totally re-landscape, but a bit of sprucing-up can have a dramatic effect.

ichard Burr re- Rake out size and depth of your slightly with the back of veals how to Wait for a dry day before joints, as well as how big your trowel to spread it out Rre-point a shabby you begin. Now it’s time to your path or patio is. As a on the sheet. Pick up some old path in five get on your hands and rough guide, for a path mortar on your trowel, flop steps and you’ll be amazed knees, so get knee pads or around 0.7m by 10m, I this into the joint between at the difference it makes... something soft to kneel on would use about 2 x 25kg paving slabs and, using the - you’ll thank me for this tip! bags of cement and 8 x edge of your trowel, chop it Prepare your path You need to get the broken 25kg bags of plastering into the gap. Keep doing If you’ve got a patio or a path mortar out of the joints and sand. this until you’re flush with made up of any type of bag it up in rubble sacks as Lay a heavy duty plastic the top surface of your pav- jointed paving slab, the you go - you’ll be surprised sheet on the ground, put ing stones. To flatten the chances are, if you haven’t how much comes out. your wooden board on top mortar to the level of your taken care of it, it’ll look pretty There are a few tools you’ll of this and tip two bags of paving stones, smooth the tatty. Plants and weeds grow need for this job: a hand sand into the middle of trowel towards you with the in the joints and fluctuations brush (that you don’t mind your board. Add half a bag flat of your trowel. Chop the in temperature can blow the ruining), a pointing trowel, of cement on top of this and next bit of mortar in and mortar out a little bit more a hammer and a tool called use a shovel to mix this always smooth this into the each season. a cold chisel. together (a bit like flour and mortar you’ve already Fear not! To start, you need This is a tool I’ve probably cocoa powder when you’re done. Keep going until to clear your area. This used every week since the making chocolate cake!). you’ve run out of mortar (or means getting a sharp day I started building. You’ll Once this is mixed to- energy) and then mix up spade or shovel, finding be surprised by how many gether, pile it in the centre some more. the edges of your path and uses you find for it - prising of your board and use your cutting away all the vegeta- stuff, wedging things open, shovel to make a deep well Mark up any repaired tion that’s grown over the cutting heavy-duty things. in the middle. Pour about slabs top of it. Even doing this will You’d blunt a lot of wood five litres of water into the As you work, there may be make the task ahead look chisels before you even well and mix this in with some paving slabs that pop 100 times more manage- made a dent in one of your shovel. up. This can be because able. Use a stiff broom to these, and it’ll probably last This process is quite sub- roots have got underneath sweep the path and lift any you a lifetime. jective, and dependent on them, but it could also be AAA bit of sprucing-up willwillwill have a dramatic effect on a path loose debris sticking to the Start at the beginning of how wet your sand is in its an ants nest undermining that needs re-pointing. (Photo: PA Photo) face of your stones. your path and work your bag. For this quantity, I can them, for example. Lift your way along. Prise-up your use anything from five to slab, scrape out or cut mortar with a pointing nine litres to get the right away what has made it pop trowel if it’s loose, or a consistency. You should be up, and put down a layer of hammer and cold chisel if able to pick the mortar up mortar to lay the slab on. it’s hard. As you clear the with your hands without it This can’t be a smooth mortar, use your hand dripping through your fin- layer or your paving stone brush to get all the dust out. gers, but not so dry it crum- will have nothing to bed-in Be sure to pull out any bles as you hold it. to, so chop the mortar in - roots, weeds or bits of as described before - and green as you find them, Re-point until you run out put a chalk cross on this and dig out to the depth of of mortar slab, so you know not to the paving stones. Cut out about 30cm tread on it. Mortar doesn’t squared of your plastic take too long to dry, but Mix your mortar sheeting and dollop about make sure you don’t walk Wherever you mix it, ce- a honeydew melon-sized on your path until at least ment will stain, so you amount of mortar onto this. the following day. need a large wooden Flatten the mortar down TPN/PA board (at least a square metre) as a surface. Calcu- lating how much cement and sand you need can be difficult, but thankfully it’s sold in every DIY store, so it’s very easy to get more if you run out. However, make sure you get the same type of sand, or the colour of your mortar will look different. The reason it’s difficult to calculate is because it depends on the Interiors Life & Leisure The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 25 What’s New Revamp your bathroom with Filled with Flavour Discover the fresh, exciting and delicious food Fancy tackling the job yourself? Follow Chloe and drink at the Flavour Café, now open in new grouting Kent’s step-by-step guide. Tavira near the Gilão River. othing puts a downer on the start of the day like stepping Ninto the shower - and lock- ing eyes with blackened, moulding grout around your tiles. Maintaining bathroom grout can be a nuisance, but putting the job off for months (or even years!) only leads to bigger problems. While it’s always important to clean your grout regularly - think at least once a week - to prolong its longevity, the time will eventually come where it needs replacing. Grout is a very po- rous concrete, which will inevitably It’s important you crack open a window Applying the new grout begin to rot no matter how clean your to ventilate the room, as there will be a Mix up the new, fresh grout accord- home is - but there needn’t be a fixed lot of dust flying about. If this isn’t possi- ing to package instructions, or if it’s cycle for re-grouting. It’s a process ble, then you must wear a breathing pre-prepared, then just squeeze it The bright and modern scones straight out of the which ought to be conducted as and mask instead; the cement particles in into your grout spreader and get café is the perfect place to oven and enjoy a sandwich when necessary, and this will obvi- the air won’t do your lungs any good. going. enjoy breakfast, lunch, and white coffee for only ously be less often when you main- It’s also vital you protect your eyes Work the fresh grout into the joints - snacks or light meals or to €1.40. tain good household hygiene. behind some tight-fitting safety gog- and don’t worry too much about any simply sit on the terrace If you are looking for top If it’s looking aged, but not quite ready gles for the same reason - a grout mess at this stage, it really doesn’t with a coffee or tea. quality food in a welcoming for replacement, then try out a grout particle to the eye is not the reason you need to be perfect. 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Re-grouting isn’t necessarily the ardu- strip out old grout. Starting at the Let the grout set for about 20 min- Try the huge variety of For further information, ous task you’ve been fearing. With the corner of your tiles, allow the blade utes until a film develops over the salads, bagels and ba- please visit their Facebook right tools and safety precautions, you teeth to cut into the grout, slicing firmly tile, and then thoroughly clean the guettes or sample the page @FlavourCafeTavira could get the job done in as little as an in one direction. The grout will then area. Wipe away the excess grout bread, croissants and fresh or call 965 865 047. afternoon. Granted, it’s not the most spiral free or become loose enough and film off the face of the tiles with a exciting way to spend your day off, but to be gently pulled away. damp sponge, rinsing often. it’s one of the easiest DIY tricks you An electric grout remover is ideal on can add to your arsenal. Plus, it’ll save larger areas, as it is much less labour Finishing and polishing you money to work on it yourself, rather intensive. When using an electric grout Using a grout finishing tool (you can pick than paying someone else. remover, be sure to start in the middle these up at hardware and DIY stores), of the tile joint instead of the corner, as drag the rounded end evenly over the Preparation the rotating blades could otherwise joints with smooth, sweeping motions to Make sure you cover and protect cause your tiling to become chipped. create an even looking finish. around the area you’ll be re-grouting Begin on the vertical joints before mov- Leave to dry again for around three with a dust sheet. If you’re working ing onto the horizontal ones. hours, then use a soft, clean sponge to above a sink or bath, then take care to Strip the grout to the thickness of the polish away any film which has formed put the plug in too, to prevent any tile. Once the grout has been re- over the grout. And finally - congratula- grout from going down the drain and moved, wipe over the entire surface tions - you’ve thoroughly re-grouted causing blockages. with a damp sponge. your bathroom tiles! TPN/PA 26 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Life & Leisure TTTravel

Pyeongchang may be playing host to the Winter Olympics, but South Korea’s capital Seoul is not the type of city to sit Seeing the sights in Seoul meekly in the shadows.

presents a new and daz- 1958, during the city’s rapid zlingly modern multimedia expansion, it was restored exhibition about the origins in 2003 and has become a and culture surrounding much-cherished institution what claims to be the by locals and tourists, who world’s healthiest food - amble along its banks including, if you dare, free while working life roars on tasting. Tickets from relentlessly overhead. W5000, closed Mondays. Hongdae Nam June Paik Memorial The bustling suburb of House Hongdae, close to the Tucked away in a quiet Hongik University, buzzes back street in Dongmyo, a with restless spirit and the small hanok - a traditional shrieks of its innumerable Korean wooden house - street vendors and stall- harbours an interactive holders. But it is at night display in tribute to argu- time when Hongdae really ably the nation’s most fa- comes alive with its mous and controversial eateries and bars ensuring artist, Nam June Paik. Paik its tight streets stay packed Seoul cityscape. (Photo: PA Photo) was one of the pioneers of well into the early hours. video art in the 1950s and ith its potent fiery Korean cuisine the South Gate, one of the Museum Kimchikan 1960s. Find it at 12-1 Jong- Korean Cuisine blend of an current global trend, there city’s most recognisable Kimchi, a dish of fermented ro 53-gil, entrance free. Seoul’s seriousness about cient palaces, has arguably never been a landmarks, for free access cabbage or other vegeta- food is made plain in its W Cheonggyecheon sizzling street-food stalls, grand sky- better time to visit. to the front courtyard, while bles in a spicy marinade, is scrapers, sizzling street- exploring the inner court- found all over Korea, ac- Those in need of respite while the most unprepos- food and glaring neon, Gyeonbokgung Palace yards and the Palace Mu- companying almost every from the frantic pace of sessing of exteriors mask Seoul is fast-emerging as Translated as ‘Palace of seum costs W3000/ meal, so it seems only modern-day Seoul can stunning, all-you-can-eat an Asian destination to rival Shining Happiness’, W1500. The exuberant natural that there should always escape to this river hang-outs selling the likes of Tokyo and Gyeongbokgung is a Ceremony of the Guard be a museum in its honour. which flows right through bibimbap and other rice- Beijing. sprawling site of halls and Change, which takes place Museum Kimchikan the heart of downtown. based dishes for less than With the K-Pop phenom- gates. Built in 1394, it pro- outside the South Gate (Insadong-gil 34-5) Covered in concrete in five euros. TPN/PA enon exporting a bright vides a glimpse into South three times per day except new brand of Korean cul- Korea’s former royal pa- Tuesday, is worth catching. ture the world over, and tronage. Walk through the Dongdaemun Dongdaemun, the Great East Gate, is another or- namental palatial struc- ture which now stands more or less in the centre of the city, in the middle of a major traffic intersec- tion. The broader area in which it sits, Dongdaemun, is packed Seoul with markets and food nightlife. stalls, including the bus- (Photo: tling, labyrinthine corridors PAPAPA of Gwangjang Market. Photo) The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 27 28 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Health & Beauty YYYour health Is your desk job harming your health? Millions of us have sedentary jobs, often weaker. Sitting down can spending nine or 10 hours a day sitting hunched also cause hip flexor mus- cles to shorten, leading to over a keyboard and staring at a screen. problems with the hip joints.” ew research has ent areas of the body and found that substi- our overall health. It could make you eat more Ntuting time spent than your body needs sitting for stand- Sitting doesn’t use many It’s thought that excessive Too much screen ing six hours a day could muscles sitting causes the metabo- time can lead to a loss of help people lose 2.5kg A different number and lism to slow down, which peripheral over a year. The study, volume of muscles are Dr Morrison says “can vision later in published in the European involved in sitting com- affect the ability to regulate life. (Photo: Journal of Preventive Car- pared to standing. When blood sugar and blood PA Photo) diology, found that stand- we stand, more muscles pressure. But sitting could ing burned 0.15 kcal per are engaged and stretched also mean you take in minute more than sitting, to fight gravity and bear more food than you need and the effects were more weight. as well. pronounced in men than GP Dr Clare Morrison from Dr Dimitrios Paschos, women. MedExpress says: “Sitting consultant psychiatrist at Standing desks are popu- down for too long can lead Re:Cognition Health, says: lar in offices in Sweden, to muscle atrophy in the leg “You’re more likely to eat Denmark and Germany, and gluteal areas. Essen- unhealthy food when you and it’s slowly catching on tially, the body is ‘shutting stay at your desk, which here. But is sitting down for down’ while sitting, and can not only affect health in long periods of time really there is little muscle activ- the long term, but also that bad? Here’s how ex- ity. This means muscles impair your concentration perts say it can affect differ- become weaker and later on in the afternoon,

Walk up and down and try to do some stretches at least every hour. (Photo: PA Photo) YYYour health Health & Beauty The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 29

and you might suffer from mal keyboard and mouse to shortness of breath, lethargy. We also tend to to plug in, as this makes it clouded thinking and eat faster when at our much easier to use the even heart and vascular desks, which means the laptop in a more ‘spine disease. stomach doesn’t have friendly manner’.” “When we’re sat down our enough time to send sig- John Kiely, senior lecturer bowel functions less effi- nals of fullness to the brain, in elite performance at the ciently than when we stand. causing us to overeat.” University of Central Lanca- This is why people who are shire, adds: “If you sit bedridden for a long period Your posture is probably slumped over at a desk for of time, tend to suffer from poor whenever you sit long periods, your muscles bowel issues,” she says. This won’t come as a sur- and tissue will begin to prise, but we were de- adapt around this position, Eyesight can be affected in signed to move and sit up which can often lead to the long-term straight. “Not many people skeletal problems in the Long days staring at a com- will have their desk set up back and hips later in life. puter screen followed by correctly with each compo- Long periods of sitting in the evenings and weekends nent in the right position. same position is also bad staring at a TV or other Sitting in an awkward posi- for your heart, as it prevents devices like smartphones, tion for extended periods proper circulation.” means modern lives can will contribute to back pain involve a lot of screen time. as tension builds up in Some organ functions are Dr Morrison says: “The tiny different areas of your neck reduced muscles inside your eyeball Your posture is probably poor whenever you sit. (Photo: PA Photo) and back,” says When we sit down, it’s can grow tired from focusing chiropractor Rishi Loatey, probably not long before on a single point. In some but the more we focus on a down for seven to nine sit all day Dr Steve Iley, from the British Chiroprac- most people unintention- cases you can no longer screen, the less able we hours per day, showed a medical director at Bupa tic Association. ally find themselves in a focus. Issues are typically are to do this as we age.” 90% greater risk of devel- UK says to “sit back, with “Ideally, you shouldn’t sit at slouch, hunched over the short-lived, however, there’s oping diabetes and an your shoulders straight your computer for more keyboard. “Did you know some evidence that bright The longer you sit, the 18% higher chance of back rather than rounded than 40 minutes, and sit- that leaning or hunching light can damage your reti- worse the effects dying of heart disease or and with both feet flat on ting correctly at your desk is too much can affect your nas irreversibly.” “In a recent review of scien- cancer than those who sat the floor.” He adds: “Avoid important - feet flat on the lung capacity by as much While Kiely says: “Too tific studies, it was found less, “ says Richard crossing your legs or twist- ground, with bent knees as 30%?” says Dr much screen time can lead that the more hours people Holmes, director of wellbe- ing your spine. Getting up and a downward slope Morrison. “This means to a loss of peripheral vi- sat, the higher the number ing at Westfield Health. and moving around regu- from your hips to your your heart and brain don’t sion later in life. We are of negative health out- “And fit people who exer- larly will help to reduce the knees. If using a laptop, it is receive as much oxygen- evolved to be able to notice comes. ‘Heavy sitters’, cised regularly were not pressure on your lower a good idea to buy a nor- ated blood, and can lead things on either side of us, defined as those who sat immune, risks rose at the back. Walk up and down same rate for every hour and try to do some spent seated.” stretches at least every So if you absolutely have to hour.” TPN/PA 30 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018

when I come across good practice it is Marley and Mum a revelation to me. I have arthritis in my feet and to walk When you’re disabled or have a loved one with difficulties on the uneven cobbled pavements you always look for ways to make life a little easier. In the and roads is simply excruciating. I suspect that if one is in a wheel- Algarve it’s not always as easy as one may imagine or take for chair, that one’s journey is a very granted. bumpy and uncomfortable one. In KATE INACIO addition to which, anyone pushing N someone in a wheelchair will prob- ably find it much more tiring than on a have come to discover others by sharing our journey. I smooth surface. many positives and diffi- hope articles in the The Portu- Many roads are difficult to cross as culties within the systems gal News help others too! access to them is often limited, if in a Ihere in Portugal with my six I’ve had and continue to receive wheelchair. year old son, Marley. Marley was amazing support, however noth- Access to buildings in the main is born with various medical prob- ing ever prepares you for what you often poor,and only yesterday we lems including muscular dystro- need to be ready for. The emo- observed a man in a chair being phy and a congenital bone condi- tional battle aside, what about the hauled up a flight of about 5 steps to tion. He has a global delay which day to day? I have come to meet access a block of flats. affects many things in his body many disabled children over the One does not see many people with such as his speech, hearing, last few years through the hospital mobility problems in the streets and understanding etc. Despite this and found it so interesting that this this must affect their quality of life. he is a super-hero! is such a hush-hush topic. But People with visual handicap must also be at a disadvantage as they Just to give you an idea, Marley why should it be? Why should will probably be more prone to trips loves football, Mario super broth- these issues be hidden? and falls given the dips and holes in ers and the colour green. His I strongly believe we were all put the pavements. dream in life is to probably be- on this planet for a reason, and my These are just a few of my come a minion and is the happi- son is definitely mine. The more I observations. est boy in the world. try and find ways to make his life Hope this is useful to you. When I heard about TTThe Por- easier in the Algarve the more I JANET STOWE, by email tugal New’s initiative I really see how many other people wanted to be involved as I have would benefit knowing some of SIR,SIRSIR Whilst there is a lot to be many ideas and thoughts about the tricks of the trade and may find criticised about Portugal’s health care disabled issues here in Portugal. I some support or comfort reading and its accessibility, it is only fair to have already started writing many about our journey. mention some of the good things. articles through my blog Having spent most of my adult life here www.marleyandmum.com Read more from Kate on her I know only too well the enormous I started the blog and YouTube blog, in future editions of TheTheThe advances that have been made in channel for two reasons. One is to Portugal News or join her for a both health care and assistance for give more information on Cabaret Evening with live music, the less fortunate and elderly. Marley’s journey and have a hub auction, raffle and a three course Whilst there still may be a long way to discuss our fundraising events meal in aid of Marley, being held to go, Portugal is not alone in its concerns. Many Portuguese nurses, and latest news. The other, and on 15 March at Quinta do Paraiso doctors and other health workers are most importantly, is I want to help in Carvoeiro (See advert below). currently helping to prop up the N.H.S whilst the Algarve struggles to cope with a growing population, an influx of accident prone tourists plus new arrivals hoping to make this their new home. I have personally experienced the Marley with Mum Kate bad, the good and the excellent and having reached an age where a new ache or pain seems to arrive on a daily basis I just hope for the latter. One excellent service is the help provided at the lovely new Faro LETTERS airport. If like me you are not normally a wheelchair user but unable to walk SIR, The letter from Stephen counters with the medical services long distances, e.g. Plane to pass- Parsons shocked me! No wonder here, like A&E after tumbling off bicy- port control at Gatwick (seemingly the British National Health Service is cles, irregular heartbeat discovery and endless) then the service is first rate. having problems, with patients like treatment etc. I have used it several times and him clogging up “Accident and The treatment on production of without exception the drivers of our Emergency”. our E 111 has been as good, if not loaned vehicles have been courte- While a sinus problem is very better, in some cases here in Portu- ous and friendly depositing us near a unpleasant, it is neither an Accident gal. We pay 4.50euros to see a table or seat to wait until we need to nor an Emergency! There are many doctor, which I believe is the same get to the plane then push us good private doctors in the Algarve, price residents pay. A recent exam- through the queues and on to the who will usually make an appoint- ple is my wife visiting Alcoutim plane or external lift (which some- ment the same day, for the very Health Centre on a Saturday after- times doesn’t work but hey..this is reasonable charge of €40, and in my noon to be greeted by an empty the Algarve) experience, as an ex-patriate resi- waiting area and immediate attention I just wish there was some way to let dent, the care is excellent. by a caring doctor, it is open appoint- them know we need the chair at the My Doctor in Albufeira will see me for ments on Saturdays - Brilliant. door and didn’t have to get all the way as long as necessary, not the 10 min- I am sorry to hear of Stephen’s to check-in first. utes time limit experienced in the UK. experience and would ask you to JENNY GRAINER, by email VALERIE CHAPMAN, by email email this reply to him, in the hope that he returns to Paradise soon. If you have a story about SIR, We respond to the letter of MICHAEL BORRILL, by email accessibiliy in Portugal to Stephen Parsons, last week’s edition. tell, an issue to raise or It seems his ‘modus operandi,’ is very SIR,SIRSIR I am a retired Occupational information to share then similar to ours, i.e. spending winter in Therapist and am currently in the please contact us today. Portugal for the last few years. Algarve for a month’s holiday. email We own a field in the eastern Al- There are so many issues regarding [email protected] garve and have, being old, had en- poor accessibility in this area, that 32 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Prestige Property

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SATURDAY 17/02/18 SUNDAY 18/02/18 MONDAY 19/02/18 TUESDAY BBC One 12.30 Dancing on Ice. BBC One 11.25 The Voice UK. BBC One Weather. BBC One 14.30 Britain’s Best Walks with 12.55 ITV News and Weather; 14.00 James Martin’s American 06.00 Breakfast. Julia Bradbury. 06.00 Breakfast. Weather. 06.00 Breakfast. Adventure. 06.00 Breakfast. 10.00 Live Winter Olympics 15.00 Celebrity Catchphrase. 07.55 Match of the Day: FA Cup 13.00 The Harbour. 09.15 Live Winter Olympics 15.00 Tenable. 09.15 Live Winter Olympics 2018. 16.00 Tipping Point. Highlights. 13.30 The Cruise: Return to the 2018. 15.59 ITV London Weather. 2018. 12.00 Football Focus. 17.00 The Chase. 09.00 The Andrew Marr Show. Mediterranean. 13.00 BBC News at One; 16.00 Tipping Point. 13.00 BBC News at One; 13.00 BBC News; Weather. 18.00 ITV News and Weather. 10.00 The Big Questions. 14.00 What Would Your Kid Weather. 17.00 The Chase. 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Hammer. 16.45 Nigel Slater’s Middle East. 15.35 A Place in the Sun. 16.15 Lifeline. 14.00 The Simpsons. 12.00 Daily Politics. 09.35 Frasier. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 17.45 Tom Kerridge: Lose 16.35 The Secret Life of the 16.25 Songs of Praise. 14.25 The Simpsons. 13.00 Live Winter Olympics 10.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen 12.00 Daily Politics. Weight for Good. Zoo. 17.00 Back in Time for Tea. 14.55 FILM: The SpongeBob 2018. Nightmares USA. 13.00 Live Winter Olympics 18.15 Hugh’s Wild West. 17.35 The Supervet. 18.00 New York: America’s Movie: Sponge Out of 18.00 Eggheads. 11.00 Undercover Boss USA. 2018. 19.15 Winter Olympics - Today 18.30 Channel 4 News. Busiest City. Water (2015). 18.30 Great British Railway 12.00 Channel 4 News 18.00 Eggheads. at the Games. 19.00 Penelope Keith’s Coastal 19.00 Winter Olympics - Today 16.45 FILM: Rio 2 (2014). Journeys. Summary. 18.30 Great British Railway 20.15 David Attenborough’s Villages. at the Games. 18.35 Channel 4 News. 19.00 Winter Olympics - Today 12.05 Couples Come Dine with Journeys. Natural Curiosities. 20.00 Britain at Low Tide. 20.00 Dragons’ Den. 19.00 Posh Pawn. at the Games. Me. 19.00 Winter Olympics - Today 20.45 Dad’s Army. 21.00 FILM: Ted 2 (2015). 21.00 Life and Death Row: The 20.00 The First Brit: Secrets of 20.00 Only Connect. 13.05 Posh Pawnbrokers. at the Games. 21.15 QI XL. 23.15 FILM: Dracula Untold Mass Execution. the 10,000 Year Old Man. 20.30 University Challenge. 14.10 Countdown. 20.00 Back in Time for Tea. 22.00 Imagine - Mel Brooks: (2014). 22.00 The Mash Report. 21.00 Homeland. 21.00 Collateral. 15.00 A Place in the Sun: 21.00 Flatpack Empire. Unwrapped. 00.55 The Last Leg. 22.30 Live at the Apollo. 22.15 FILM: Our Kind of Traitor 22.00 Two Doors Down. Summer Sun. 22.00 Mum. 23.15 FILM: Young 01.50 Hollyoaks. 23.15 Cleverman. (2016). 22.30 Newsnight. 16.00 A New Life in the Sun. 22.25 The Archiveologists. Frankenstein (1974). 03.55 Four Rooms with Sarah 00.05 FILM: Guess Who’s 00.20 The Supervet. 23.10 Weather. 17.00 Four in a Bed. 22.30 Newsnight. 00.55 FILM: The Producers Beeny. Coming to Dinner (1967). 01.15 The World’s Most 23.15 Horizon - My Amazing 17.30 Extreme Cake Makers. 23.10 Weather. (2005). 04.50 Location, Location, 01.50 Sign Zone: Question Expensive Food. Brain: Richard’s War. 18.00 The Simpsons. 23.15 Generation Gifted. 03.00 Weather for the Week Location. Time. 02.05 Obsessive Compulsive 00.15 Odyssey. 18.30 Hollyoaks. 00.15 Generation Gifted. Ahead. 05.45 Superfoods: The Real 02.50 Sign Zone: Holby City. Cleaners. 00.55 Odyssey. 19.00 Channel 4 News. 01.15 The Super League Show. 03.05 BBC News. Story. 03.50 Weather for the Week 03.00 Four Rooms with Sarah 01.40 Sign Zone: Countryfile. 20.00 Dispatches. 02.00 Sign Zone: The New ITV London BBC Four Ahead. Beeny. 02.35 Sign Zone: Shane: For 20.30 Food Unwrapped. Builds Are Coming: Battle 03.55 BBC News. the Love of the Game. 21.00 24 Hours in Police in the Countryside. 06.00 CITV. BBC Four 19.00 The Dark: Nature’s ITV London 03.35 Sign Zone: Hugh’s Wild Custody. 03.00 Sign Zone: Celebrity 07.30 Scrambled!: Scrambled! Nighttime World. 19.00 Only Connect. West. 22.00 First Dates: Valentine’s Antiques Road Trip. 07.35 Scrambled!: The Tom and 06.00 CITV. 20.00 Wild Scotland. 19.30 University Challenge. 04.35 Sign Zone: Royal Special. 04.00 Sign Zone: Royal Jerry Show. 07.30 Scrambled!: Scrambled! 20.15 Winter Olympics Extra. 20.00 Winter Olympics Extra. Recipes. 23.05 Married at First Sight. Recipes. 07.50 Scrambled!: Fangbone. 07.35 Scrambled!: The Tom and 21.00 Modus. 21.00 Akala’s Odyssey. 05.20 Weather for the Week 00.10 The #1 Houses: Britain’s 04.45 Weather for the Week 08.10 Scrambled!: The Jerry Show. 21.45 Modus. 22.00 FILM: In Order of Ahead. Cheapest Street. Ahead. Powerpuff Girls. 22.35 Top of the Pops: 1985. 07.50 Scrambled!: Ben 10. Disappearance (2014). 04.50 BBC News. ITV London 01.05 The Job Interview. 08.30 Scrambled!: Be Cool, 23.10 The Joy of the Bee Gees. 08.10 Scrambled!: Mr Bean: The 23.50 From Ice to Fire: The 02.00 Obsessive Compulsive ITV London Scooby-Doo! 00.10 Southern Rock at the Animated Series. Incredible Science of 06.00 Good Morning Britain. Cleaners. 09.05 Scrambled!: Wishfart. BBC. 08.30 Scrambled!: Spy School. Temperature. 08.30 Lorraine. 06.00 Good Morning Britain. 02.55 One Born Every Minute. 09.25 ITV News. 01.10 Sings Neil Diamond. 09.05 Scrambled!: Wishfart. 00.50 The Secret Life of Books: 09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 08.30 Lorraine. 03.50 Four Rooms with Sarah 09.30 James Martin’s Saturday 01.40 The Joy of the Bee Gees. 09.25 ITV News. Cider with Rosie. 10.30 This Morning. 09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. Beeny. 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BBC Four Empire. 03.45 BBC News. 19.00 Beyond 100 Days; Cameras. 04.00 The Question Jury. 01.55 Sign Zone: The Hairy 19.00 Beyond 100 Days; ITV London Weather. 02.05 Sign Zone: Horizon - My 04.55 Location, Location, 19.00 Beyond 100 Days; Bikers’ Mediterranean Weather. 19.30 Top of the Pops: 1985. Amazing Brain: Richard’s Location. Weather. Adventure. 19.30 The Taff: The River That 06.00 Good Morning Britain. 20.00 Winter Olympics Extra. War. 05.50 Superfoods: The Real 19.30 The Taff: The River That 02.55 Sign Zone: Great British Made Wales. 08.30 Lorraine. 21.00 From Ice to Fire: The 03.05 Sign Zone: Royal Story. Made Wales. Railway Journeys. 20.00 Winter Olympics Extra. 09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. Incredible Science of Recipes. BBC Four 20.00 Winter Olympics Extra. 03.25 Sign Zone: Grand Tours 21.00 Queen Victoria’s 10.30 This Morning. Temperature. 03.50 Weather for the Week 21.00 PQ17: An Arctic Convoy of Scotland’s Lochs. Children. 12.30 Loose Women. 22.00 Wild Weather with Ahead. 19.00 World News Today; Disaster. 03.55 Weather for the Week 22.00 Wellington: The Iron 13.30 ITV Lunchtime News; Richard Hammond. 03.55 BBC News. Weather. 22.00 Byzantium: A Tale of Ahead. Duke Unmasked. Weather. 23.00 Storm Troupers: The ITV London 19.30 Top of the Pops: 1985. Three Cities. ITV London 23.00 The Genius of Turner: 13.55 ITV News London; Fight to Forecast the 20.00 Winter Olympics Extra. 23.00 Dreaming the Impossible: Painting the Industrial Weather. Weather. 06.00 Good Morning Britain. 21.00 The Old Grey Whistle Unbuilt Britain. 06.00 Good Morning Britain. Revolution. 14.00 James Martin’s American 00.00 Top of the Pops: 1985. 08.30 Lorraine. Test Live: For One Night 00.00 Stories from the Dark 08.30 Lorraine. 00.00 Forest, Field & Sky: Art Adventure. 00.40 Top of the Pops: 1982. 09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. Only. Earth: Meet the Ancestors 09.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 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Joint Art and Sculpture Tavira Pop Choir - Fonte need to bring their own Seasons Fairways (Quinta do Balaia Bowls Club, Olhos 149 839 email Exhibition at Vale do do Bispo. If you are interested racquets and pay a small fee Lago, Almancil) 10am to de Agua, Albufeira - roll-ups on [email protected] Lobo - Contemporary art in joining a fun and enjoyable to cover costs. More 12noon. Wed at Mesquite Tuesdays and Fridays at exhibition by Rodrigo Ferreira Pop Choir, then come along information contact Sue on near São Brás from 10.30am 09:45am. Tuition available if Latin and Ballroom and Paula Castro Freire. Until on Sundays at 2pm-4pm. We [email protected] or to 12.30pm, 2.30pm to required. Please telephone Classes - Tuesday 8 Mar at the Vale do Lobo would like a choir/musical call 910 108 730 4.30pm. Tel. Terry Reed, tel: Richard on 935367492 or Jill mornings 10-1.30 at Alvor Community Centre. Art Gallery, Mon-Fri 9am-6pm. leader to conduct and 289 845 561 on 935701155 Wednesday evenings 7-8.45 Free entry. organise the various singing Bridge lessons – Mid Algarve Hash House Carvoeiro Clube de Ténis. www.valedolobo.com talents we have at present. January start of course of 10 Duplicate Bridge - Come Algarve Hash House Please contact Gillian lessons for beginners and start and join us. Friendly Club, all Harriers meet weeklyweekly. Call Beginners, Improvers, Jive, Exhibition of the 17th Tel.966 006 436 of follow-up course of 10 nationalities and levels 289 413 854 or 918 806 044. and Intermediate/Advanced. Corrida Fotográfica de Email. [email protected] lessons for those who have welcome. Every Mon & Follow us on Facebook & visit Please contact Caroline on Portimão - As well as the done the beginners course. Thurs at the Cristal Hotel, www.algarvehhh.org 961916821 / Email usual winning photographs SOCIAL Every Monday afternoon or Carvoeiro. 1.45pm for 2pm. strictlydancingcarvoeiro@ Valverde Lawn Bowls and the best of the eight Wednesday morning in Tel: 282 357 953 or 282 357 hotmail.com Duplicate bridge – Come Albufeira. For information call Club - Almancil, now open presented themes, a lot of 657. Meet people and make and join our friendly Frank Spelbos at 937 802 110 five days per week. Come and subaquatic photos taken friends. Learn to play bridge. international club. Thursday or email to [email protected] Duplicate Bridge - Come join us for our roll-ups on during the archeological Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri & Contact the Vale del Rei prospecting in the Arade river afternoonsafternoons, 3pm start at along to our friendly Restaurante Solar da Poeta in Crown Green at Alvor International club on Tues SunSunSun from 10am. Tuition is Bridge group. Beginners will be on display. The winners sessions starting in January. Almancil. Or Friday bowling club every Friday at afternoons, 1.45 pm for a 2 pm available if new to the game, of the photographic race were: Tel 968457888. afternoonsafternoons, 2pm start at 10am, bowls available free of start. At the Aroma di Mar holidaymakers are welcome. 1st Margarida Santos, 2nd charge. For more info please Call Jen on 282 332 628 or Museu do Trajo in Sâo Bras de Restaurant in Olhos de Água. Music Improvisation and Marco Oliveira, 3rd Alexandre contact Peter or Janette Tel;- 937 264 287. Alportel. For pre-registration For further details call Mary Ensemble Skills - Sat 3pm- Mendes Cabrita and the 966169747 or 965700536. Prémio Jovem went to and information call Frank Moore: 289 416 199. Walking football at 5pm Costume Museum, São Spelbos at 937 802 110 or Browns in Vilamoura. Brás de Alportel. Exploring the Catarina Guerreiro. Exhibition VVVale de Milho Golf Club New Duplicate Bridge email to [email protected] Tuesdays at 9:30am. Come technical & theoretical aspects until 15 Apr in the Portimão members meet at 9 am on Club at Lagoa Hotel on the try it out! Contact of improvising in different keys Museum. Open Tue 2:30pm- Coro dos Amigos do Tuesdays and Fridays for EN 125 in Lagoa, next door to [email protected] or & applying these new skills 6pm and Wed-Sun 10am-6pm. Museu. We are an golf competitions. It is a O Casarão Restaurant. Thurs 289 322 740 within a small-group www.vivaportimao.pt international four-voice choir friendly club and visitors are 1:45pm. €5 including welcome. For more information environment. All instruments & MARKETS based in São Brás de Alportel. refreshments. No joining fee. WORKSHOPS & abilities welcome. We sing sacred and secular contact Hazel Hopps 282 358 All welcome. 022 COURSES The Car Boot Sale normally music from medieval to 21st 282 352 022 / 969 174 130 Scottish Country century, with concerts several Dancing will be held on held on the first Sunday of Walking Football for the SPORT Learn Mindfulness for times per year. We rehearse Monday evenings from 7:30 each month at the Old School 50+ - Every ThurThur. 9.30am - Life - New courses starting on Thursdays from 6.30pm. to 9:30pm at the NOBEL House, Vales, Aljezur, is now 11am, at José Arcanjo Walking Football begins 20 Feb and 22 Feb in Loulé Ability to read music is an International School Algarve. on its winter break and will Stadium, Olhão (behind again at Boavista Spa on the and Lagos. Learn how to advantage, but not essential. Please contact Mardie resume on 1 Apr 2018. McDonalds EN125) Fitness, N125 between Lagos and manage stress, anxiety, If you think you would like to Cunningham on 282 356 029 fun & friendship. Only €3 / Luz. Every Wednesday sleeplessness and pain in a MUSIC join us, please contact David or email [email protected]. session. Contact: 916504903 9:30am -11:30am. Everyone different way. To find out more on 'Fad' Nu' - [email protected] over 50 welcome. call 968837136 Musical Instrument 'Fad' Nu' - an intimate and [email protected], minimal interpretation of Fado contact:[email protected] Classes - Guitar, Ukulele, or on 289 489 374. Meet other people, Central Watercolour Lessons - music, grounded in tradition Watercolour Lessons - Keyboards, Mandolin, Banjo, Algarve... New social club. Tavira County Lawn Venue Change.. from 151515 but also exploring unique Barbershop Chorus etc. Beginners lessons [email protected] Bowling Club - Cerro do Feb.FebFeb Every Thursday 10am - new paths. A different "Bella a Cappella" available: Tuesdays- Leiria, Santa Caterina, Fonte 12:30pm at the Church Hall musical experience with Cátia Welcomes new members. Men Come and learn bridge. FridaysFridays, Intermediate players Bispo, Tavira. Praia Da Luz (behind the Alhandra (voice) and José and Women from all Vale del Rey. Tel 968457888 can join our Show Band. Tel: 963 997 582. Church). Tel: Sandie Croft 912 Alegre (guitar). Saturday 24th Almancil centre. 919 968 768 nationalities, to experience joy Friendship group, Os February 3.00 pm. Quinta and fun in Harmony singing. Amigos, meets on the 333rdrdrd das Alagoas, near Almadena. Rehearsals Tuesday Tuesday of each month, for Entrance, by reservation evenings in the lagar in walks, lunch, and other only, €19,50 including Moncarapacho. activities. For details contact refreshment buffet of wine, For details go to [email protected] cheese and homemade www.bellaacappella.net products. Info and or call Andrea: 962932978 Duplicate Bridge - Come reservations Tel 924 204 and join us in a friendly 343. Email Bridge; Friendly social informal atmosphere. All levels [email protected]. game Tuesdays & Fridays and nationalities welcome. 1:15pm Marina Club Suite Wed & Fri afternoons at Vale Fado /Live Music - O Hotel Lagos. Just tip up or call d‘El Rei Hotel. Please contact Navegante restaurant is 963977642 —partner not 911 561 224 or 282 358 885 proud to announce live necessary music/Fado every Friday Chess Club All Levels in from 8:00pm. Menu from afpop Badminton in central Algarve. €16,00. You are welcome to Silves Come and try [email protected] for join us. Try our delicious and Badminton. This is a regular details. varied cataplanas, Stone Thursday evening slot Steak and fresh fish. Booking booked for Badminton players Painting for Pleasure recommended: at the pavillion of the Escola Classes, water colours, 282 315 399 / 968 305 515 EB 2,3 Dr. Garcia Domingues oils or acrylics - Beginners in Silves between 8pm and onwards, individual tuition on Every Friday - New Orleans 10pm. Badminton players will Tues mornings at Four jazz with The Dixie Kings at Casa Inglesa, Portimao - dinner reservations 282 416 290 details www.neworleansjazzalgarve.com/ index.html Every Sunday - The New Orleans Jazzband play a dinner/concert at O'Navegador Restaurant, Alvor - reservations 282 412 375 or 962 541 124 www.neworleansjazzalgarve.com/ index.html 17 Feb - St. Valentine’s dinner/dance/concert with New Orleans Jazz from the Dixie Kings from 6:30pm at Casa do Povo, Moncarapacho - reservations [email protected] or 935 086 365 www.neworleansjazzalgarve.com/ index.html

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Golf gadgets N NEIL CONNOLLY lato once said that, good chance to getting you Pros always stand directly ground just past the hole, “Necessity is the out of the house and work- behind the ball, looking at and the other end should Pmother of inven ing on your game. Great the target before every be about half a metre be- tion.” I feel that stuff, no issues there at all. shot. They are setting up hind the ball, or enough so sometimes isn’t the case Remember though, it is the ball-to-target-line so you have a comfortable with regard to the golf in- more likely to be a ‘band aid that when they set the club backswing. The purpose is dustry when you see all of solution’ than a ‘cure all behind the ball they can to be able to train yourself the golf gadgets on display situation’. Meaning that after point it accurately to a point to line up to any breaking on TV, YouTube and in the you have followed the advice about two to five metres putt with confidence. If the Golf magazines. Don’t get and instructions, then vigor- ahead of them. putt has been read as a me wrong here, there are ously worked on the method The second must-have in ball outside right lip then some really good ‘game for more than ten minutes, your bag, are two nine-inch the line of string should be helpers’ out there but they there is a healthy chance nails and a piece of string set up to go towards that are few and far between. that you don’t see any im- connecting the two. This is point. Hit the ball along that It seems on a weekly basis provement at all. to be used on the putting line and if the pace is good my clients bring in a revolu- The first must have in the green, with your alignment and the ball starts off along tionary piece of equipment bag for the dedicated fol- sticks too. How? Bear with the string and goes in the recently purchased from lower of golfing practice me and all will become hole, you have read the putt Ebay, asking me what I are alignment sticks. I clear. One of the most com- correctly, and just as fectly set up. When you do than you first thought. Good think of this latest gadget rarely see a player with mon mistakes made by importantly, you have hit you will be surprised how luck with these aids and if which is likely to be taking poor alignment when they amateurs is that they rarely the ball along that line. many putts you hole. You you need any more help, up floor space in an attic or have ready access to them. read enough break into a Chances are you will need a may also be surprised that get in contact with us at the garage sometime in the If they have poor putt. So what you do is, find couple of adjustments to the break of the putt was Golf Integrated Academy at future. You probably see alignment, then shame on a putt with some break, left get the line and pace per- significantly more severe Vila Sol – 912 263 555. where I am going with this them. Your ability, and I to right or right to left, it already. However, I will, as stress ability, because it is makes no difference. Just this article develops, give a learned skill to use these, so long as it doesn’t have you my insight into the best is central to your too much break on it. Start tools and pieces of equip- development. If you can’t here and then work up to ment out there which will line yourself up to the ball- putts which have more grace any Tour Pro’s bag to-target-line accurately, break. Make sure the string and should be in yours too. then you are guessing and (attached to the nails) is at The good news is that nei- have little chance of dis- least two and a half metres ther of the gadgets will set patching the ball target long and can be pulled taut you back more than €20 bound. It’s all about using so that any wind doesn’t total. parallel lines whilst com- move the string. The good news about the mitting to put your feet fac- Now, put the ball on the ‘gadget’ situation is that it ing away from the target yet green, directly underneath helps the player parallel to the ball-to-tar- the string. One nail should reinvigorate his/her enthu- get-line. be the indicator of the line siasm for practice. It has a This why you see the Tour and be pushed into the 48 The Portugal News 17 Feb 2018 Sport

Benfica end Portimonense revival N CHRIS WRIGHT FC Porto thrashed Chaves to maintain top spot in the Primeira Liga whilst the Lisbon duo of Benfica and Sporting overcame Portimonense and Feirense after hard-fought games.

shot past Felipe. Ivorian’s goal in the sev- Soares doubled the Drag- enteenth minute for a foul ons’ lead on the half-hour that existed sometime mark with a well-hit volley before his finish, even inside the box and after Feirense had man- Moussa Marega almost aged to recoup and then grabbed a third just two lose possession in the minutes later but was build-up to the eventual denied by Maras’ heroics strike. on the line. Once again the VAR FC Porto kept up the pres- ‘robbed’ the home sup- sure in the second-half as porters of a penalty on the Marega’s deflected shot, brink of half-time, which twelve minutes after the the referee initially break, found its way into awarded but which was Benfica celebrate after scoring in their 3-1 win over the the bottom corner of the cancelled out after con- weekend at Portimonense. (Photo: Lusa/Antonio Cotrim) net. Sergio Conceição’s sulting the video replay. men continued to look The dissatisfaction from dangerous, having al- the home support served ready hit the woodwork to roar the Lions on in the he Eagles trav- Benfica’s lead as he through Soares and second period, yet it elled to the Al floated a free-kick over the Majeed Waris before, in needed a crucial save by Tgarve to face a wall and in off the post. the 90th minute, they Rui Patrício, as he revitalised Deep into stoppage time scored their fourth. Sérgio pushed Edson Farias’ Portimonense team that Andrija Zivkovic, deputis- Oliveira controlled Héctor goal-bound effort onto had scored seven goals in ing for the sidelined Filip Herrera’s pass on his the post, to stop Feirense their previous two games Krovinovic, made it 3-1 chest before smacking a from taking the lead. against Rio Ave and when he skipped around magnificent volley into the William Carvalho brought Marítimo but the home a tackle inside the box back of the net. an enormous sigh of relief side’s defence was before picking his spot Sporting were still miss- among the home fans breached as early as the and slotting the ball past ing the injured Bas Dost twelve minutes from time sixth minute when Franco Lucas Possignolo. so Jorge Jesus looked when he broke the dead- Cervi fired home from Portimonense now have a towards Fredy Montero lock from a corner. close range. difficult trip to Feirense and Seydou Doumbia to Montero then added a Portimonense rallied this weekend before en- supply the goals at the second in the final minute against the early setback tertaining Porto at home Alvalade, as Sporting as he guided Gelson Mar- and midway through the on 25 February. looked to bounce back tins’ pass across goal into second-half drew level FC Porto took the lead from the previous week’s the back of the net with an when Felipe Macedo after fifteen minutes defeat by Estoril. outstretched leg. headed home from a against GD Chaves as Doumbia had the green FC Porto lead the table by corner. Sergio Oliveira created an half of Lisbon celebrating two points from Benfica Twelve minutes later Cervi opening for Tiquinho prior to VAR’s curious and Sporting who are joint was on hand to restore Soares to squeeze his intervention, ruling out the second on 53 points.