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10 FEATURES GREAT TRAIN JOURNEYS 16 Portugal’s best rides STAYCATION Boutiques hotels for when 2O we get the travel okay LOOMA AHEAD Staying in the shade, stylishly 28 , and making lighting a focus TOP MARKS Looking good... our pick of 32 the t-shirt replacements ABSTRACTION Art with direction, expressing 46 personal feelings JESUS STATUES Guarding the territory, 52 commanding the views 20 WRITE ON Our guide to self publishing

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Welcome We’re back in print! Back in full distribution. Back to the start of lazy, hazy summer days with just a bit more freedom than in previous months. The past few weeks have been all about soft openings, slowly, slowly and with great care. And rightly so. Look at other countries whose COVID-19 figures continue to soar, while people are protesting, placards in hand, loud-speakers at the ready, trying to take matters into their own hands and defying the restrictions that have been set up to protect them and their families. Here in Portugal, our homeland of choice, it has actually been super calm. We’ve stayed home, learned new skills, enjoyed our privileged surroundings and shared conversations and companionship, ideas and inspirations with friends and family, sometimes discovering things we didn’t kmow about each before. So it has been a learning curve all round, and that is a good thing. With shops and restaurants and art galleries opening their doors, decorators and designers meeting new clients, the season will start to gather momentum. Of course we don’t as yet have the weight of tourists on our doorstep, but we are fired up with renewed interest and the readiness to go adventuring and discover more about this country. This issue of AlgarvePLUS brings plenty to whet your appetite: people, places, tastes and treats. Enjoy it all.

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FRONT COVER: Restaurants are now open but are required to comply with regulations that have been Here’s comes summer. Beautiful landscapes all around us and that established in order to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Customers will be required to use wonderful ocean that shimmers santiser or soap and water when arriving and leaving a restaurant; seating arrangements have necessarily been reconfigured to maintain that minimum two-metre distance, although this does not apply to groups from the same household. Staff have been trained to meet rigid health and hygiene standards and that includes sanitising dishes, glass and cutlery and using high temperatures (80-90°) in dishwashers. Menus should have been replaced by handwritten boards, or online menus, or laminated menus that can be disinfected after each use. These are just a few of the rulings. Because restaurants will only be able to serve around 50% of their usual numbers, it is important to book early and also to double-check opening hours, which may be different to the previous ‘norm’.

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The Holiday Inn Algarve, Armação de Pêra is very proud to be a part of the growing #MyTravelPledge campaign to offer free short breaks to healthcare workers giving them something to look forward to and to boost morale at this hugely difficult time. Ian Rutter and Andrew Watson, owners of Casa Higueras in Andalucia, have reached out to a growing number of accommodation providers across the world who are all pledging to offer free short-breaks to healthcare workers once the coronavirus outbreak subsides. And closer to home, the NEW FROM boutique Magnolia Hotel, in Quinta do Lago, has offered 100 free rooms to healthcare workers to show appreciation and thanks. COLECTIVO 28

Sigues is an ecological jewellery collection made from newsprint, 09 08 handmade by designer Sílvia Rodrigues. No two pieces are A SLICE OF THE alike and all are waterproofed. In WEDDING ACTION 2019 the brand launched its first prestige collection, Amar Cássima, Many a wedding has had to be at the Municipal Museum of Loulé HOLIDAY INN HOLIDAY

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TIME AT HOME HAS GIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE AND INVESTIGATE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES AMONG OTHER THINGS. READY FOR A DREAM JOURNEY? PORTUGAL BY TRAIN SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY

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Opposite page top: Dom Luís Bridge, bottom: Porto, Ponte 25 de Abril, Lisbon, This page top: Gourmet cuisine on the Presidential, bottom: Tavira Station

Meanwhile, rail access to the south of the country had begun but it would not be until 1899 that it would finally reach Faro – but not by the route we currently use. From North to South passengers and goods from Lisbon would cross the Tagus by ferry to Barreiro and then by rail to Vendas Novas on to Casa Branca south west of Évora and on to Beja. From Beja, the line would go to Almodôvar and then west to Funcheira where it would head south to Tunes and finally reach Faro. There were commercial and geographical reasons for this route: it would enable smaller branch lines to reach the 11 centre of the country to places like Portalegre and Elvas that would subsequently join the Spanish rail network and it would extend economic reach into the agricultural heartlands of the Alentejo. Geographically, there was no short cut to

Faro from Almodôvar because the Serra do l PLUS ALGARVE Caldeirão was in the way and, as anyone who has driven the N2 from São Brás de Alportel north will testify, its hostile twists and turns would make railway building a very expensive prospect. The line reached Faro in 1889, Vila Real de Santo António in the east in 1906 and finally Lagos in the west in 1922. The line from Funcheira to Setúbal a little south of Lisbon, the Linha do Sado that we use today, was not completed until 1925. The entire project began in 1861. The branch line that runs from Faro east towards the Spanish border was an important stretch as it served the fishery towns of Olhão, Tavira and the former blue-fin tuna fishing base at Praia de Barril. The narrow gauge Early start line that once served the former fishing HERE IS a moment of drama, an intake of breath and The first railway in Portugal was built in 1856 and community is now used to run visitors to the then a hushed ‘wow’ comes from the passengers on was 35 kilometres long. It ran between Lisbon beach, the Cemitério das Âncoras or ‘Anchor the train journey to Lisbon. It happens when the train and Carregado north east of the capital and was Cemetery’ and also to the restaurants and leaves Almada on the south side of the River Tagus, the first stage of a line that would eventually cafés there. The junction is at Pedras del enters a long dark tunnel and minutes later bursts into reach the southern bank of the River Douro at Rei. The railway ends at Vila Real de Santo the bright sunlight. And there you are, 70 meters above the Porto in 1864.This was to become Portugal’s António on the Rio Guadiana where there sparkling blue estuary upon the magnificent bridge, Ponte premier route. It would not be until 1877 when is now a bridge access to Ayamonte in T25 de Abril, with the beautiful Lisbon cityscape beckoning the Ponte de D. Maria Pia, which is upriver of the Spain, but prior to 1991 it relied on a from two kilometres across the water. iconic Ponte Luís I, would bring the train to Porto ferry service – that still exists, and The bridge which is not unlike the Golden Gate Bridge proper. Incidentally, both bridges were designed never fails to delight – to carry goods in San Francisco, was inaugurated in 1966 but the train by Gustav Eiffel. to and from the Spanish market. deck was only added in 1999.

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Do it is style Train travel is about to undergo a resurgence The Linha do Douro is a very popular line in popularity because of for visitors who want to experience Kings and Queens of Portugal its low environmental the vineyards of the region. The in splendour. After the impact and its ease of line hugs the bank of the Rio reinstatement of the use. Unlike air travel, Douro for 160kms. In the Republic in the early part there is no need to turn summer months from of the 20th century, the up at a train station June to October, an train was renamed three hours in advance historical train pulled The Presidential and of departure. The sleeper by a steam locomotive was used on state trains across Europe takes passengers who business. It fell into offer the opportunity have been transferred disrepair, but in 2017 to have a good night’s from Porto to a station was restored and it rest and arrival at your at Régua and then on now takes passengers destination refreshed. upriver for 30kms to on a lavish day trip Another advantage is that Tua stopping at Pinhão to the Vesuvio wine most train stations are ART along the way. This is estate. It doesn’t come in city centres, unlike both a sightseeing and a cheap – tickets for the 12- airports, and the pace is gastronomy tour complete hour journey cost €750. Along slower, less frantic; there with local entertainment. the way the guests are treated to are no major luggage On a higher scale there is another gourmet cuisine prepared by Michelin restrictions and the views train that runs along this line. It is called The Star chefs. The train looks splendid in its vivid are better. Presidential. The carriages were built in Paris blue livery and the experience has won a number Take a trip on a 130 years ago and were used to transport the of prestigious awards. Portuguese train, it could be the start of beautiful 13 friendship. As the author Paulo Coelho wrote, The Linha do Douro is a very popular line for visitors who “Sometimes the wrong want to experience the vineyards of the region. train can take you to the The line hugs the bank of the Rio Douro for 160kms. right place”. Stations to explore l PLUS ALGARVE

There are 2,650 kilometres of reflect the goods and produce work on the the tiles are railway in Portugal, approximately that passed through; agriculture platforms and polychromatic 234 train stations and a greater and cork production from central ramps within is (multicoloured) number of apeadeiros or ‘halts’. Alentejo, while the Algarve is spectacular. azulejos depicting While most of the stations represented on the wall tiles of But perhaps the best forms of transport used are pleasant and functional the building. But it is the roof that known train station in the entire by people in various parts of the there are a great number that is remarkable; brown ceramic country is Estação de São Bento country. The artist was Jorge are masterpieces of design and tiles are fashioned in the shape of in Porto. It is a UNESCO world Colaço and he made use of 20,000 decoration. One of the most scallop shells, thousands of them, heritage site and the entrance tiles in the realisation of the work intriguing in southern Portugal that represents the ocean out to halls explain why. Inaugurated which took 11 years to complete. is on the Linha do Sul that runs the west. in 1916, the walls are covered Other stations that use azulejo from Faro to Lisboa and it is at In Lisbon, the train station in panels of azulejo tiles in murals as decoration include Funcheira. This station was built at Rossio – once the central monochrome executed in blue Aveiro, Évora, Caldas da Rainha, on an important junction that station – is an example of Neo on white depicting scenes from to name a very few. One notable serviced Moura, Beja, Castro Manueline design, reminiscent of Portuguese history – the Battle of example worthy of special Verde and Aljustrel to the east and the Torre de Belém on the river, Valedevez (1140) and Henry the mention is a small station out the Atlantic coastal towns to the with two huge horseshoe-shaped Navigator’s conquest of the Moors on the historical Douro line at west. The designs on the building portals to the front. The cast iron in Ceuta. Higher up at roof level Pinhão.

In Lisbon, the train station at Rossio, once the central station, is an example of Neo Manueline Going the distance Opposite page top: São Bento station, Porto; design, reminiscent of the Torre de Belém on the Faro and Ho Chi Minh City, two cities worlds apart but linked by the longest uninterrupted train journey on bottom: Rossio Station, Earth. Separated by 17,000kms the journey takes 14 days. For those willing to take on this epic journey the Lisbon. This page top: river, with two huge horse shoe shaped portals to The Presidential; bottom route is laid out as follows: Faro to Lisbon and then to Hendaye in the south of France via Spain on the Sud left: Leaving Faro; right: the front. The cast iron work on the platforms and Express overnight train. Next, Hendaye to Paris, Paris to Cologne via Brussels, Cologne to Warsaw and from arriving Ho Chi Minh City there to Moscow. Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia aboard the Trans Siberian Express. Beijing to Hanoi. Hanoi ramps within is spectacular. to Ho Chi Minh City. And you’re there! FOOD PLUS

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dinner, with carefully arranged seating that observes social distancing but still, because of the design of the restaurant itself, has an ambience of elegance and intimacy. 15 Only 50% capacity is permitted currently, so you need to get your reservation in early. Ingredients are sourced locally and from suppliers with whom Piet

has long-standing relationships. His l PLUS ALGARVE beef, however, comes of the same butchery in Ireland who have been delivering dry aged black Angus fillet Florian Restaurant steak to him weekly for more than 17 years, and long before it became the THE SUN IS OUT THE TABLES ARE SET... TIME TO foodies' thing. GET READY FOR A CULINARY FEAST And fillet steak is, unsurprising, one of the stars on Piet's very varied menu, served with triple-fried chips F YOU are into seriously known for. Piet, from a family of FOOD and Bernaise sauce. Home-smoked good food with the sort of taste snack-bar owners, left school at 14 Wonderful meat hams, a perfectly-spiced pastrami touches that only a master chef and worked in a butcher's shop for dishes, fish and and sausages are all produced Ican produce, then you will five years while attending butchery vegetarian in-house, as is everything from the certainly have been to Florian in classes one day a week. He then breads at the start of a meal to the the past. A bit off the beaten track, trained as a chef. What this man ice creams at the end. tucked behind Vale Verde at the doesn't know about quality, cut and Fish-lovers will leave well-satisfied entrance of Quinta do Lago, it has flavour simply isn't worth knowing. too, after a prawn risotto or turbot been under the ownership of Piet During lockdown, under the 'Chef DECOR with beurre blanc served with Warink, master chef, and his At Home' banner, Piet was producing Sunfilled relaxed asparagus and mashed potatoes. wife Karin, front of house, since a dazzling array of dishes and having terraces, elegant Puds include – again all made under interior 2000, when they took it over from them delivered across the Algarve. Piet's watchful eye in the Florian fellow Dutchman, Frank. Today, rather than continue offering kitchens – some great classics such Now the restaurant is open again that much-appreciated service, Piet as creme brulée, New York-style after lockdown, and rigidly following will be available to cook for clients cheesecake, and an exemplary goverment guidelines, those in their own home – creating that PRICE coffee mousse. hankering after fantastics cuts of perfect private lunch or dinner party. The wine list is dazzling, with a Starters from meat served in style, will be back. Meanwhile he and Karin have €13.50; mains from choice of more than 300 varieties, And it is meat that Florian is opened their restaurant doors for €27.50; puds all €9 mainly from Portugal.

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FORGET PLANE JOURNEYS TO FARAWAY PLACES AND QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS, PASSPORT RENEWALS AND LUGGAGE ALLOWANCES, AIRPORT QUEUES AND JETLAG. CHOOSE INSTEAD TO SPEND TIME IN ONE OF PORTUGAL’S MAGICAL BOUTIQUE HOTELS

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HE PAST TWO MONTHS have given us a Casa Mae For those who romanticize farm-to-table living time to reflect and embrace the concept of by the ocean (think 5,000sqm orchard and farm) and free- slow living. Willingly, as part of our civic duty range eggs (think 200 hens), then Casa Mae may indeed be

we have stayed home. We have dreamed the place for a weekend getaway. Their environmentally- l PLUS ALGARVE online and scrolled through myriads friendly estate house, located in the heart of the charming of photos saved on our digital devices, depicting life town of Lagos, has been lovingly renovated and filled with BC – before Covid. For summer 2020, there is a Portuguese vintage furniture. If lazing in a hammock on Tnew perspective. Our pristine beaches will not your private patio is a must, then the boho-chic cabanas be crowded; in restaurants we will not be are for you. From €220 per night. packed like sardines. For those based here in Rua do Jogo da Bola 41, 8600 – 712, Lagos Portugal, our summer plans will be geared 968 369 732 towards the Staycation, holidaying in our casa-mae.com own country, supporting the local economy, reducing our carbon footprint. Sounds good. We have put together some of our favourite boutique hotels and home-tels, whittling down our list based on positive client experiences and personal site inspections.

Algarve Villa Alegria located in the traditional fishing village of Salema, not only offers an exquisite location just steps from the sand, but is primarily an oasis of privacy with attention to the smallest details. Just pack your bag and let the staff take care of your needs. Start your morning with a dip in your private infinity pool overlooking the coastline. With daily housekeeping services, and option of a private chef, this luxury 4-bedroom villa, part of the Vila Vita Parc collection, ensures you are treated to a well-deserved staycation. Salema 8600-074 282 310 151 Villavitacollection.com This page: Casa Mae, Lagos. Opposite page top: Areais do Seixo, Lisbon; centre and bottom: Quinta da Pacheca, Cambres, in the Douro Valley ALGARVE PLUS l 18 and tickling your taste buds with vegan meals and ticklingyourtastebudswithveganmeals embracing yoga,pickingsprigsofherbsfortea Lisbon willhaveyoukickingoffyourshoesand friendly haven.Aone-hour’s drivenorthof programme ofbody, mindandspiritatthiseco- recommend thetwo-nightnaturalrebalancing disconnect (noair-conditioning andnowifi). We after weeksoflockdownarereadytodetoxand overlooking theAtlantic.Forhippiechicguests,who Prata (SilverCoast)issetromanticallyatopacliff Areais doSeixo,locatedalongPortugal’s Costade hermitagecastelo.com 783 772 963 Lisbon 1200-815 4, Esperança da Rua serves theupperfloors.From€ floor isaccessiblebyastaircaseonlywhereanelevator ten-minute walkfromChiado.Goodtoknowthatthefirst serviced withequippedkitchens,CasaChafarizislocateda this opportunitytoreserveoneofthefiveapartments.Fully their son,Jules.Consideringacitypied-a-terre?Thentake paintings orphotographsofLisbontakenbyAntoineand simplicity andwarmth–wallsareadornedwithKatarina’s Katarina andAntonineMonnier. Theiraestheticechoes of SantoshasbeentastefullyrenovatedbyParisians Pombaline buildinglocatedinthehistoricalneighbourhood Casa Chafariz,abeautifullypreserved18thcentury Lisbon 162 pernight. Opposite pagetop: Porto; below: Vila 1872 River House, Nossa Senhora do This pageabove: Alegria, Salema. Douro 41, Porto Quinta NovaQuinta de Valley, bottom: Carmo, Douro

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LOOMA HANDMAKES LAMPS LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, USING THE VERY BEST OF PORTUGAL’S NATURAL Amori joined her husband in his fine art gallery business. RESOURCES AND THE CREATIVE Two children later, and then a full-time mother, she started TALENTS AND OVERWHELMING an educational fund to help boys living on the streets of Cape Town to resettle back in their communities or be PASSION OF THE TWOSOME BEHIND moved to a residential care facility. THIS EXCLUSIVE LABEL A few years ago the family decide to adventure and came to the Algarve. “We all fell in love with the country and its Words: SUSI ROGOL-GOODKIND people. This is a magical place to raise children and we feel blessed to be able to call Portugal home now,” she says. Sol and Amori share a fascination for the traditional crafts of Portugal, so soon after they met, they signed up to a Palma Algarvia (palm weaving) class at the Lagoa I N T H E S H A D E School of Art. “Palma is one of the oldest crafts in this part of Portugal, and it is incredibly sad that the art form is slowly disappearing,” says Sol. “But, thankfully, some really forward-thinking designers are bringing it back to life. I love following the beautiful work of Palmas Douradas, a Portuguese designer based in São Bras de Alportel who makes the most beautiful items from palma. Her work is simply stunning.” It was in that class, with the two of them embracing a wonderfully meditative activity, that the seed for their future business, Looma, was sown. One weekend, the duo took the train up to Lisbon, and popped into two shops that had a tremendous impact on 21 them: the first was the Retrosaria Rosa Pomar wool shop in the Chiado neighbourhood, which celebrates the native sheep breeds of Portugal, and creates its own beautiful ranges of wool from Portuguese fleeces. The second was the Burel shop; the Burel Factory, based in the Serra da

Estrela, creates an exquisite range of fabrics and items l PLUS ALGARVE made from Portuguese wool. Sol and Amori dug deeper into the wonders of wool and have never looked back. They took part in some “life- changing” wool workshops in Porto, at the Saber Fazer headquarters, run by Alice Bernardo, another passionate ambassador of all things wool-related. “We learnt about felt- manipulation where you can achieve all kinds of sculptural effects using felt made from wool, from felt artist Ana Rita de Albuquerque,” says Sol. “We also learnt about wool as

OL MUNIAIN is a Spanish/English artist fascinated by natural colours and dyes; Amori Borman is a South African creative, passionate about wool and art. Both have adopted the Algarve as their home, and have used Portugal as inspiration for their beautiful hand-made lamps. Sol was born in Madrid of a Spanish father and SEnglish mother) but spent her formative years and early career in the UK. While her background is in publishing and e-commerce, she is a hugely talented artist with a special interest in semi-abstract landscapes. Sol and husband Michael and their three children moved to Portugal three years ago, and live in the heart of the Silves countryside. “The landscapes around Silves are a huge inspiration to me – the russets of the soil, the myriad of wild flowers, the delicate almond blossom, the heady scent of jasmine… it is heaven,” she says. DÉCOR PLUS

“The first time we experimented with wool and light, we were bowled over by the effect. I have the first lamp we made in my lounge.

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44 impossible. the new Nokia 800 Tough. These concerns are addressed by And it really is tough, designed to the Satmap Active 20, a British-made withstand a drop of 1.8m onto concrete and electronic map system specifically designed immersion for up to 30 minutes. for walkers. The unit is robust and waterproof, with But the really interesting feature for both walkers buttons down the side of the touch screen so it can and sailors is the keypad with proper mechanical keys, be operated with gloved hands. The screen is super- so you can operate even when the screen is wet and l PLUS ALGARVE bright to be visible even in direct sunlight or in snow. you are wearing gloves, something that is very often And it has Bluetooth so data can be exchanged with impossible with a touch screen. other Satmap units in the party, and the unit can be The 800 Touch also features an incredible battery life paired with heart rate monitors and various cycling – a single charge can keep the phone on standby for over accessories. four days. And it has a proper torch instead of using the A hikers map of Portugal is available on a memory camera’s flash. card from satmap.com. Another good option is Garmin’s The downsides are that the screen is tiddly and the rugged GPS touchscreen devices that display the camera is not inspiring (just 2MP). And the phone uses company’s TOPO range of maps. The Portugal map is a new operating system specially for non-touchscreen TOPO Light, which is based on open source mapping phones called KaiOS, so the range of apps available is with much less detail than Brits are used to with OS. very limited. You get the usual messaging apps, plus WhatsApp, and Google Maps. There are a couple of useful apps that gives you your GPS coordinates and compass bearing so the phone could be used in combination with a printed map, ensuring you always know exactly where you are. Despite its limitations, the Nokia 800 Tough is good value at around €129.99 and available from Worten and FNAC. At that sort of price, it is worth investing in one just to ensure you can stay in touch whatever happens. If you are planning on hiking through really remote regions with dodgy cellular coverage, satellite communication is a reassuring thing to have. The Garmin InReach Mini is a very compact satellite communicator with GPS, so you can send texts via the The Garmin InReach Mini satellite communicator is Iridium satellite constellation. In emergency, the system small in size but big on alerts people at GEOS who get help to you wherever you delivery and the way to are. The InReach Mini is just over €300 but getting on play it safe out in the satellite network involves a subscription that will the wilds top up your monthly outgoings.

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BIG BROTHER’S CHRIST THE REDEEMER RIO DE JANEIRO, LITTLE ETURNING FROM a visit to BRAZIL stating that “Imitation is the sincerest form of Brazil in 1934 the Cardinal flattery”. Visualizing the Cardinal’s concept, the LOCATE D Patriarch of Lisbon heaped praises on the statue Corcovado Mountain at a Apostles movement went on to conceive Portugal’s Rof Christ the Redeemer. Completed just two years Christ the King elevated on a cliff top overlooking BROTHERS height of 700 metres before his visit, it stood impressively on top of Rio PEDESTAL the city of Lisbon. A site on the left bank of the de Janeiro’s Sugar Loaf Mountain. His mission to 8 metres River Tagus was earmarked and they set about THE CHRIST STATUE OVERLOOKING RIO DE JANEIRO IS TRULY build a similar monument in Lisbon turned out to STATUE fund raising. MAGNIFICENT, TOWERING UP TOWARDS THE HEAVENS AND SEEMINGLY be an epic project. 30 metres, made from It took them 15 years – and God knows how There were those who ridiculed the copy-cat- reinforced concrete and many prayers – before the initial cornerstone of the PROTECTING ALL AROUND. LISBON’S FOLLOW UP TOOK DECADES FROM cardinal for coming up with such an unoriginal idea. soapstone tiles pedestal was laid. Formed by four enormous arches VISION TO ACTUALITY, IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER BUT EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE Didn’t Portuguese Catholics have a more innovative ARCHITECT and a flat platform on which Christ the King would project of their own to support? Some Brazilian’s Heitor da Silva stand, the figure was designed by Francisco Franco Words: CAROLYN KAIN did not approve. After all the Art Deco figure of R E ACH E D de Sousa. He is slightly smaller than his older Christ with arms outstretched in a gesture of peace The foot of the pedestal brother in Rio and has a sacred heart emblazoned by Corcovado Rack Railway; was their design. In Portugal an influential group, the foot of statue by lifts, on his chest. The monument was inaugurated in the Apostleship of Prayer supported the Cardinal’s escalators and walkways May 1959 giving special thanks to God for sparing project. They countered the Brazilian’s criticism the country from entering World War II. 47 46 l PLUS ALGARVE l PLUS ALGARVE VISION PLUS

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LOCATE D Almada at a height of 133 metres PEDESTAL 82 metres STATUE 29.5 metres, made from reinforced concrete ARCHITECT Francisco Franco de Sousa R E ACH E D The foot of pedestal by a lift from the riverside; the foot of statue by lifts inside the pedestal

In a Mass in Rio dedicated to front-line healthcare workers, the Christ statue was illuminated to look like a doctor 48 To Westerners a less well-known statue is that of Christ the King For the majority of the population wanting independence of Dili. He stands on a globe, atop the summit of the Fatucama for their country, the statue was regarded as an unwelcome Peninsula in East Timor. Like Christ the Redeemer, his country gift. But three years later, under the United Nations act of became a Portuguese colony in the 16th century. In 1975 – nine self-determination, Indonesia was forced to withdraw its days after Portugal relinquished its control – the country was troops allowing East Timor to become a sovereign nation. It invaded by Indonesian military under the direction of President would have been understandable if the people had destroyed

l PLUS ALGARVE Suharto. Terrible conflict ensued which East Timor was the statue but this being a figure of Christ they decided not unable to resist, becoming the 27th province of Indonesia. to do so. Ninety-nine percent of the country’s citizens were To symbolise this status, in 1996 the Indonesian Christian and the statue was a reminder of their Portuguese government erected Christ the King of Dili, 27 metres Catholic roots. high made from 27 copper sections. Similarly religious in their outlook, in Brazil on Easter Sunday 2020, the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro conducted a Mass beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Dedicated to front-line healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus, the statue was illuminated to look like a doctor. Images of medical professionals were also projected showing them in scrubs and CHRIST THE KING putting on face masks. A slogan on the statues arms read Fique OF DILI em Casa – ‘Stay at Home’. EAST TIMOR This moving tribute was in stark contrast to the dismissal of the country’s health minister that happened two days before. LOCATE D Complaining about his minister’s strong endorsement of social Fatucama Peninsula at a distancing, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, referred to height of 235 metres coronavirus as nothing more than a ‘measly cold’. Called by PEDESTAL his opponents Trump of the Tropics, both Presidents share a (globe) 10 metres similar distrust of the World Health Organisation. In order to STATUE discredit its advice on coronavirus, Bolsonaro falsely claimed 17 metres, made from that it promotes homosexuality and encourages toddlers to copper sections masturbate.

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R E ACH E D propaganda promoted by the government, Brazil has become The globe by an outdoor staircase of 597 steps a serious hot spot for coronavirus. Meanwhile in Portugal and East Timor there has been a better outcome as both countries have religiously followed WHO’s international guidelines. PROPERTY UPDATE PLUS

TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD

THE IDEA OF CREATING YOUR DREAM HOME FROM SCRATCH IS HUGELY APPEALING BUT IT IS VITAL YOU LOOK AT THE PROS AND CONS FIRST SAYS ROBERT BIJKER OF YELLOW HOMES – LAND & HOUSES ALGARVE

As a guideline, be prepared to pay €950-€1,050 per square metre, excluding VAT, for good quality construction. This price indication easily moves up to €1,500-€2,000 for tradition style homes and €2,500- €4,000 for contemporary style villas in the Quinta do Lago and Vale de Lobo areas in the central Algarve. As 51 HERE are many people who dream of the construction sector is buoyant, it can be difficult to building their own perfect home. Last week a client who negotiate a better price with builders. isT interested in purchasing a plot of land asked us about Having said that, if you drive a hard bargain you may the average cost of construction per square metre, a end up with a property of lower quality. For instance, question that was asked frequently before the COVID 19 not all double glazing is of the same standard; the same pandemic started. is true for electric under-floor heating where a cheaper

Few people are brave enough to construct their own option has a shorter lifespan. l PLUS ALGARVE home. In Portugal this can officially only be done in When comparing quotes from builders, you should cooperation with a licensed builder. At the moment there never base your judgement on price alone. In our are various resale properties on the market ready to move experience builders with a quote below average are into without delay at reduced prices. less well organised than others. Depending on your Purely from an investment point of view, purchasing an requirements, this may not necessarily be a problem. existing home in the current economic climate can make There are other expenses such as the architect, the more sense than starting from scratch. There are other building license and the connection of the utilities. In considerations too, such as your preference for location case there is no mains water connection you may want and design. A brand new property has the advantage of to drill a borehole. The depth you need to drill to can having a five year warranty on the construction and two easily add another €15,000 to your costs, including the years warranty on the equipment. However, building is water pump, equipment, electric cables etc. This is not a not for everyone and it can cause a lot of stress. comprehensive cost overview as the space here is limited. First, there is no such thing as an average price per Lastly, if you are thinking of buying a project or a plot square metre to build a house. It depends on many of land with a ruin in rural areas to build your dream variables, such as the quality of construction materials home, be aware that rules and regulations can change and specifications, the location and the soil. Imagine – in a few years’ time (or longer) you could run the risk you want to build a house on a location with rocks or that planning laws have changed. One recent example is inclination of the land. The rocks need to be removed and that properties in areas prone to wildfires are no longer you may need to excavate first before the foundation is allowed to be extended and ruins do not get planning put in place. This has an effect on costs. permission for the construction of a new property. This A quotation from a builder includes a number of things, may be reversed in the future, but it is a risk. In case you for example, a kitchen, and floor and wall tiles. If you would like to make an investment now to build a house in decide on more expensive items, you will need to settle five or ten years’ time, you are probably better off buying a the balance with the builder. Also, bathroom fittings and plot of land in an urbanisation. fixtures are often not included. You need to budget for an But all in all, if your dream of building a new property additional 5% to 8% of the construction costs for extras. doesn’t scare you, then go for it.

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Self-publishing, aka vanity GOING TO publishing, is a viable alternative and more and PRINT more people are DURING LOCKDOWN, AMONG THE choosing this MANY INTERESTS PEOPLE TOOK UP, method to get PENNING THEIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY, into print OR GETTING THAT NOVEL WRITTEN, SCORED HIGH. SO NOW YOU HAVE IT, THE ALMOST-COMPLETED MANUSCRIPT… IS SELF-PUBLISHING THE NEXT STEP?

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IY-ING YOUR BOOK is a modern- day option. Established publishing houses are choosy; they want l PLUS ALGARVE l PLUS ALGARVE a proof-read, tight manuscript, beautifully copy-edited and they’d even quite like you to design the jacket too! And of course their editors will be fast to point out what can be improved. There are Dso many alternatives out there it’s all a bit of a minefield. I’m hoping to help any would-be authors by wading through the process and giving you clear directions. Traditionally, an author writes a book then approaches a publishing house direct – or finds an agent who will hopefully recognise what a marvellous work you have produced, hooks you up with a publisher who then recognises your incredible talent, gives you a humongous advance and you go on to become a world famous author/ millionaire. Dream on. In reality that would be a rarity. Self-publishing, aka vanity publishing, is a viable alternative and more and more people are choosing this method to get into print. It’s not that complicated – a little as I read, write, and type quickly and don’t see typos even short story can be improved by a fresh pair of eyes. The design a jacket and the blurb that goes on the back cover? more time-consuming perhaps should you wish to take when they are jumping out of the page and screaming typical editing cost for the average 60,000 word manuscript If not ask someone who does! care of the whole process yourself – but, there are many at me. If you are pedantic, thorough and fastidious, then will include proof-reading and is likely to be around Graphic design companies will work with your ideas or companies out there to give you a helping hand. go for it and proof the manuscript yourself. If, like me, €1,500. And formatting is important – your masterpiece come up with alternatives. Costs vary but one interesting you are lacking on those fronts, then either engage a has to read properly and the pages need to be uniform, the and inexpensive way of doing it is to approach a local Chapter one professional proof-reader or, if you need this to be as cheap chapters aligned and the numbering correct. A little bit of college and ask the art teachers if their students might be Where do you start? First, write your book. Done that? and cheerful an exercise as possible, ask someone who is technical know-how will go a long way at this stage. interested in designing a book jacket and offer a prize! The Great… that’s the hard bit over. Next you have to prepare capable of doing the proofing, to do it for you. jacket needs to be spot on if you are planning to produce your masterpiece for the platform you wish to use. Don’t confuse proof-reading with editing – it is Chapter two hard copies – it has to engage immediate interest. You don’t want your work to be littered with typos or completely different. A copy editor is there to say useful Right, you now have this wonderful manuscript which is You are nearly there! The next step is to decide which inconsistencies, spelling mistakes or grammatical errors so things like: “That’s dreadful – you need to change it,” or ready to be unleashed upon the world. Think about the platform you want to use. The one that will spring to mind you have to be honest with yourself and fess-up to the bits “Repetition – use a different word or phrase”. Engaging a cover of the book, or jacket as we literary types like to call instantly is Amazon but, beware! Amazon takes roughly half you aren’t good at. Personally, I’m rubbish at proof-reading professional copy editor is a sensible step because even a it. Again, be honest with yourself – do you have the skills to of the cover price as commission. WORDS PLUS

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There are other costs, too: hand over to a company who will printing for starters. A book look after absolutely everything selling at €10.99 will leave you for you including registering for with the princely sum of about Public Lending Rights (PLR), Branding €1.50. However, Amazon offers through which you, the author, a print-on-demand service which receives a royalty every time your Brand Strategy Naming means that anyone wanting to book is borrowed from a library. Logo design buy a copy of your book can buy it Are you confident about managing Brand Identity either in e-reader format or a real life this yourself or would you like a book with pages. Brief: evolvecompany brand to to match do it currfor entyou? day expectations Again, there are agencies able to make this process easy but, there is a fee. For Addendum Digital around €500 your book will be formatted, listed Having toured the websites of the many on Amazon, a sample made available to prospective companies offering every service imaginable, I Web Design purchasers and basic marketing. There are many reputable think a mish-mash of you and them would probably be the Web Development Brief: to update branding in line with company evolution Brief: produce a betting catalogue for art gallery event companies around who can take care of the process of answer to all of this. Write the book, have it proofed and Social Media uploading your manuscript and actually listing it with copy edited then think about the jacket. The photograph Online Advertising Amazon for sale. If you decide to do it yourself, do your you fancy may be subject to copyright, in which case you Newsletters research – every book needs an ISBN – the number which will have to buy the permission. emailings identifies it against all others around the world, and you How you handle the whole process is your call. You can need to spend time arranging this. self publish quietly and do most of the work yourself; you Graphic 54 Let’s talk marketing. Are you adept at writing a press can invest and remain in control but have the marketing

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DANA 60s It’s hard to believe that it’s 50 years since a sweet- DAVID GINOLA voiced Irish girl perched on a stool won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest – the first of Ireland’s Flamboyant French football star Ginola many wins – in front of an audience of 200 million spent ten seasons playing in his native people. Her song All Kinds of Everything was a country before transferring from Paris worldwide hit and propelled the shy schoolgirl to Saint-Germain to Newcastle United in 1995.

international stardom. 70s He made his mark in his first year with Dana was born Rosemary Brown in London the new club as Newcastle finished second to parents from Derry, who returned with their in the Premiership. Hugely popular with the family when she was five. She entered and fans – especially the female ones – his British won many local talent contests as a child but experience included spells with Spurs, Aston had planned to be a ballet teacher, before she Villa and Everton before he retired from was persuaded to sign a record contract when football in 2002. He subsequently attended she was 15. Her Eurovision success made her a acting classes at RADA and had parts in superstar in Ireland but she had mixed success in films including Operation Matchbox in the UK. 2005 and television dramas for BBC, She married hotelier Damien Scallon in 1978 ITV and Channel Four. 50s and the family lived in the USA where they had In 2015 he ran for the presidency four children and began working for Catholic of FIFA but withdrew as a candidate THE MANGLE radio stations. Returning to Ireland in the early after he was unable to obtain enough 90s Dana became involved in Irish politics. She backing from national football Before the days of automatic stood twice as an Independent candidate for associations. Then, while playing in washing machines and tumble- the Irish presidency, and although she did not a ‘friendly’ charity match in 2016, he dryers, housewives used a ‘mangle’ win she did later become MEP for Connacht- collapsed with a cardiac arrest. His life to remove as much water as Ulster in the European Parliament. She served was saved by a fellow player who applied possible from washed items before 57 56 there until 2004, an experience she described CPR but he lapsed into a coma and was hanging them out to dry on a as “amazing but hard work”. She recently airlifted to hospital where he was given a washing-line. A mangle consisted returned to showbusiness, releasing an album, quadruple heart bypass in an operation of two wooden rollers and a My Time, in late 2019. lasting six hours. However, he made a good hand crank (plus a yell of “Mind recovery and returned to his most recent Ginola says your fingers!”) as you fed sheets, career on French TV as presenter of La his success towels and the rest of your laundry France a un Incroyable Talent (the French through the bulky machine, with l PLUS ALGARVE l PLUS ALGARVE ‘Got Talent’ competitions.) on TV is down the water pouring into a tub or WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… He says that appearing to viewers getting bowl underneath. on an entertainment what they see Originally, devices resembling WE ALL GET THOSE SUDDEN FLASHES – A FACE OR NAME OR FAD FROM THE PAST show is totally mangles were used to smooth THAT WE REMEMBER… SORT OF. THEY MIGHT HAVE DROPPED OUT OF THE PUBLIC different from being cloth rather than wring out water. a football pundit EYE OR CHANGED DIRECTIONS – YOU ONLY KNOW WHEN YOU START LOOKING The earliest known example is now and that he has in a Norwegian folk museum and Words: JILL ECKERSLEY made it work by is dated 1444. Mangle ‘boards’ being completely consisted of a roller, a wooden himself, so that cylinder, and a flat length of wood. what viewers Later versions were so huge and see when he heavy they needed two people FRANK IFIELD operates his to turn the handles. Gas-heated Although he is always remembered as the ‘Australian yodeller’, Frank Ifield was actually born in Coventry, golden buzzer is home mangles were introduced UK, one of the seven sons of Australian parents. The family returned to Australia in 1948 and Frank’s rural just what in the early 20th century. Electric upbringing awoke his interest in country music. 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Q What treatments are available? Q What research is HUMAN Currently, the damage to the lungs from exercise and support sessions which usually being done to find IPF is irreversible. Treating IPF is therefore lasts about two-to-three months. Exercises out what causes RESPIRATORY focused on managing the symptoms and are pitched appropriately to a person’s level slowing the worsening and spread of the of physical fitness and breathlessness, to IPF and how it SYSTEM disease in the lung. The average survival ensure they get the most out of this form of might be cured? A LV time after diagnosis of IPF is three years, treatment. E O L I however some people can live longer if While these treatments cannot slow Sophisticated new techniques are IPF is diagnosed quickly and anti-fibrotic down the rate at which IPF progresses, they available to scientists which enable treatment started early. can improve quality of life by improving them to look at the full range of To help manage the feelings of breathing technique and enabling people to genes expressed in patients with breathlessness and loss of lung function, live independently for as long as possible. IPF. Our understanding of the role people with IPF can be given oxygen There are two drugs available to treat genes play in the cellular processes therapy or pulmonary rehabilitation, or in IPF – nintedanib and pirfenidone. These which cause scar tissue to form and some cases both treatments are prescribed. drugs are known as anti-fibrotic drugs, spread continues to grow, thanks Oxygen is delivered via an oxygen as they slow down the rate at which scar to British Lung Foundation-funded concentrator, which extracts oxygen from tissue builds up in the lung. These drugs research. the air and delivers it in higher levels than are usually given to patients whose lung Professor Louise Wain, GSK/ normal air to the lungs, or from a cylinder function has declined up to a certain point, British Lung Foundation Chair which contains pure oxygen gas. Different so not everyone who is diagnosed with in Respiratory Research at the options are available for the delivery IPF is able to have these drugs. That’s why University of Leicester, analysed of oxygen therapy, including portable research into IPF in vital, so that its causes the genomes of patients with IPF in concentrators. can be fully understood. the UK and found a protein called Pulmonary rehabilitation helps people Gathering that important knowledge A-Kinase Anchoring Protein 13 with lung conditions to manage their offers huge potential for new preventions (AKAP13), which is involved in the breathing, through a set programme of and treatments for IPF. body’s normal process of tissue 63 62 repair. The AKAP13 gene produces more of this protein in patients AIR TO AND FROM with IPF, which might explain why MOUTH OR NOSE abnormal levels of scar tissue are forming in the lungs. This protein SCARRING could be the key to unlocking our

understanding of how IPF develops l PLUS ALGARVE l PLUS ALGARVE HELPING EVERYONE and it offers a possible target for new medicines to treat IPF. It has also been identified that people who have IPF have more harmful bacteria in their lungs, which may explain why the air ONE HEARD ABOUT ‘UNDERLYING CONDITIONS’ MANY TIMES OVER sacs become damaged with scar tissue as the body tries to fight off RELATING TO DEATHS FROM COVID 19, WITH IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY BLOOD infection. Professor Toby Maher, FIBROSIS (IPF) MENTIONED FREQUENTLY. IAN JARROLD, HEAD OF VESSEL British Lung Foundation Chair INTERSTITIUM BLOOD INFLAMMATION at Imperial College London, has RESEARCH AT THE BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION (BLF), EXPLAINS HOW VESSEL extensively studied the presence IPF AFFECTS THE LUNGS, THE TREATMENTS AVAILABLE AND HOW and variety of bacteria inside the lungs of people with IPF. People CUTTING- EDGE RESEARCH IS SEEKING A CURE with IPF have much greater Q What causes IPF and how is it diagnosed? numbers of harmful bacteria in their lungs. These bacteria can In medicine, the word idiopathic means the found which directly target and stop the cause damage to the lining of the Q cause of a disease is not understood, so we build-up of scar tissue in the lung. lungs, which results in more What is IPF and what happens when someone gets it? don’t know exactly what causes someone to The most common methods used scar tissue being produced and IPF causes changes to the lining of the air The build-up of scar tissue makes the means the scar tissue continues to build develop IPF. Research has indicated IPF may to diagnose IPF are a breath test with results in IPF spreading throughout sacs which transfer oxygen into our bodies. lungs stiff and they lose their natural and spread throughout the lung over occur as the result of repeated damage to the a spirometer (which measures how the lungs. When the lungs are working normally, ability to inflate like a balloon, which time. As a result, people with IPF become lung, which triggers the production of excess effectively the lungs can take in and Although the prospects for they need to expand to force air into the makes normal breathing difficult. The scar increasingly breathless. And normal scar tissue in the lung. However, we don’t breathe out air) and a CT scan, which can patients with IPF have been bleak deepest parts of the lung, where oxygen tissue that builds up within the lung also everyday tasks become much more yet have definitive proof of what causes this show a distinctive ‘honeycomb’ pattern in over many years, by investing in can then pass into the bloodstream. blocks the interstitium (the space between difficult, as the body is less and less able regular damage to occur, and what factors the lung, which helps doctors to diagnose research we can bring forward the However, when someone develops IPF, the the air sac and the blood vessels), which to take in and process oxygen, which is affect someone’s likelihood of getting IPF. IPF. Results from these diagnostic methods day where no-one is left breathless disease triggers a process called fibrosis, disrupts the normal flow of oxygen from crucial in generating the energy it needs for New studies are being carried out all the are sometimes confirmed through a biopsy by IPF. which causes thick scar tissue to form the lung and into the bloodstream. everyday activities. time to find out what genes and proteins are by taking a sample of lung tissue to see if within the air sacs in the lungs. IPF is a progressive disease, which involved in IPF, so new treatments can be the scar tissue is present. ADVICE PLUS

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RICARDO CHAVES OF ALL FINANCE MATTERS IS ON THE PLUS TEAM AND HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT YOUR LIFESTYLE ON THE ALGARVE, ESPECIALLY NOW DURING THIS DIFFICULT PERIOD

How does one set about taking out a mortgage period, or visit my daughter in the Netherlands. If I GO MOVES here? I have no idea of the steps involved, or the want to do work on the house – interior and exterior repayment options. My wife and I am in our mid 50s painting for starters – can this be tax deductible A family-run business based in the Algarve. and have an apartment here that is fully paid for. and if so, what documentation is necessary for the Full/part house removals with or without But I want a big beautiful house now. My apartment authorities. Can I also charge three months of the pack and wrap service. Collection and delivery is worth, I guess, around €450,000. The houses I maid’s salary and also the gardener’s to tax? service from any shop in the Algarve to your house. have seen and liked are all circa double that. Landlords who carry out works on a house whose No job is too big or small. We cover the Algarve, Portugal, First, what you need to understand is that in Portugal investment exceeds the income received from rents can Spain, France and may consider other countries. the main mortgage criteria for approval is affordability. If deduct the entire expense from the IRS (category F), for enquiries @gomoves.eu you are purchasing a property and asking for half of the a period of six years. However, to be able to do this, they 913 318 990 | 913 206 015 amount from the bank, it does not mean that a mortgage should choose the taxation method of ‘englobamento’. This will be approved. The bank will always check your means that instead of being taxed at the autonomous rate GO MOVES personal circumstances, to verify that you can repay the of 28%, they need to add the rental income to their overall 65 amount of the loan. income and be taxed accordingly. The way the bank calculates this by dividing the As the rental income will be added to other income, such amount of all your credits (including the new mortgage as employment salary, pensions etc, the tax rate is likely installment) by the net amount you receive each month. to be higher than 28% as you would be taxed according to The effort rate shouldn’t be higher than 30-35%. If, the progressive IRS rates. for instance, you have a huge portfolio of investments, If a landlord choses to be taxed at the autonomous rate l PLUS ALGARVE but don’t receive a great income each month (salaries, of 28%, the allowable expenses are condominium fees, pensions, rents, dividends, etc) the bank will take longer council taxes, and rehabilitation works, but the amounts in to process the application and may refuse it. question are only deductible for the year being declared. When assessing your a credit score, the bank looks Please note that in case you rent your property directly at your age (normally the maximum age at term of the through AirBnB or similar, you should have a rental mortgage is 70 years), financial situation (whether or not license. In this case, you should also be registered in the you have any debts), earnings and regular expenditure. tax office as sole trader (category B), but you can chose in They will also ask for the credit report from your country. this specific year to be taxed according to the sames rules They normally look to lend 70-80% of the property as normal landlords (category F). purchase or the valuation (whichever is lower). The first step is to contact a mortgage broker or the I plan to start up as a sole trader, selling my bank directly. Then it’s advisable that you only submit services as marketing consultant. Can I buy the mortgage request once you have all the documents, whatever equipment and services I need and charge normally: ID, fiscal numbers, proof of address, salary the costs to the business as set up costs – I am slips, tax declarations, bank statements, credit report. In talking a new laptop, printed stationery etc. addition, the property documents such as tax registration, In most cases, especially if your yearly income is below land registration, habitation license and permits in case €27,360, the purchase of the equipment you refer to may ORKING AWAY you are building. have no impact in your IRS (Personal Income Tax) liability. Some banks may accept the mortgage of your current However, if in fact you are liable for VAT, the VAT property, when looking into the mortgage of a new included in these expenses will be deducted from the VAT property., but this is normally more expensive and from your services. shouldn’t be necessary, as the mortgage of one property, If your services are provided to foreign companies, you should be enough to meet the credit check requirements. will be invoicing without VAT, which means that all the VAT from the purchase of equipment etc, plus accountancy I rent out my home in the key summer months – and other services associated with your activity, can be from July to September – and either travel for that refunded to you after a certain period.

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GOOD LORD, THE MAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE A NON- TOUCHER IS SUDDENTLY MISSING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HUG AND KISS HIS FRIENDS, OR AT LEAST TO SHAKE HANDS. ANTHONY MARTIN HAS HAD A WAKE-UP CALL

RE YOU a touchy-feely person, a gregarious, comfortably settled in the ‘new normal’, that wonderful clubbable, manly clap-on-the-back type of person? phrase that as yet has no meaning? No one knows, for the A person who wears their heart on their sleeve dates for the lifting of this or that, keep changing. type of person? A hugger, an arm linker, a do let’s It’s a continuous argument between science and politics have lunch-er? Well, are you? and today I read that the models used in calculations are I only ask because I’m not. I’d like to be but it’s made up from the ‘what if’’ law of probabilities – so it’s all just… well… not me. For not only do I not damned guesswork anyway. And to those who insist on touch inappropriately, but I hardly touch going out and mixing with others, when are they going Aat all. I had never given this much thought before, but in to get it into their thick heads that it is not the virus that these days of social distancing I have found that even I, who is killing people – Covid-19 is just doing what all living am none of the aforementioned and also in isolation with organisms do, trying to survive. It’s those people who

66 my family, still miss the physical contact of others. ignore social distancing – they are doing the killing. A handshake, a kiss on the cheek or a hand on the arm But a healthy lifestyle demands that people get out. when making a point. Those gestures that affirm a bond, When will it be allowable to visit ailing parents, go out a friendship, a belonging to society, and if I’m missing for a meal with friends, visit the cinema and generally this, what of those of you who are of a continue living lives with a semblance gregarious nature, who are naturally of normality? Oh, it’s going to be next tactile, or who have a greater need of Wednesday, we are told, possibly l PLUS ALGARVE self-affirmation? Thursday, or perhaps Tuesday a There has been a lot of talk regarding fortnight – it depends on the R the effect of lockdown isolation on It must have number, which really means, how mental health, particularly in children many die, for this is the number that and the elderly but what about us appeared must be balanced with the output of ordinary folk (elderly to me is ten years a widget factory in Lancashire. Yes, greater than my age)? that we were lives are a trade-off: long live the It’s difficult to express or receive economy. body language at a distance of two performing a But returning to where I came meters and you can’t see a smile in, friends popped over yesterday through a mask, so even when we are weird ritual to say hello. As they appeared, our outside of our homes we are still in dance involuntary instincts kicked in and we isolation and cut off from reality, the all moved towards each other for the REF: 7Q20102 only link to the outside world being our pre-requisite greetings. Then, almost Zoom meetings where conversation is automatically, we came to a sudden forced, or the ever-depressing television stop, with the final tableau showing news with the ever-depressing four be-gloved and be-masked people repetitive three-word mantras – stay at home -wash your standing in the drive, each hesitantly wondering what to hands – wear a mask. do next before shuffling around trying to keep two metres . However, considering everything, we are fortunate to away from each other. . be in the right place at the right time. The government When one moved, the other three had to move in unison here were quicker on their feet than many other countries. in order to maintain distance. To an onlooker it must have Okay, the airports could have been closed earlier but our appeared that we were performing a weird ritual dance. cases per-capita have been better than most and Portugal’s Perhaps this will become one of the constituents of the reaction is regarded by many as exemplary, particularly ‘new normal’. compared with the figures from the UK, which are, at the And as I sit here watching the word counter bringing time of writing, the highest in Europe. And that is where me closer to the end of the column, I remember being a my family live. Daughter, grandchildren, sister, nieces, kid in London’s Oxford Street, watching the man with an nephews-in-law and cousins galore. attached sandwich board that read ‘The End of the World When will lockdown stop for them? When will they be is Nigh’. Did he know something we didn’t.