The original Madeira island news blog
The Diario today leads with the observation that it is normal in most democratic countries and regions for the head of the executive assembly to enter parliament for debate on a regular basis. They note, however, that in Madeira it has taken 40 years for the President of the Regional ............
The Wall Street Journal today reports that Portugal is teetering on the edge of political instability and is in danger of adopting leftist opposition to Eurozone fiscal rules.
Last week President Aníbal Cavaco Silva asked incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho to form ............
The recent unsettled wet and windy weather took me to the Czech website windguru, which proved remarkably accurate – even in predicting the amount of rain that would fall over a particular three-hour period, ............
Both the Daily Mail and the ............
Various on-line sources, increasing over the last few days, report ex-pats having problems connecting to iPlayer using a “VPN” to fool the BBC’s servers into believing that they were located in the UK. The powerful (and expensive) “Hide my Ass” VPN service has seen the ............
The long awaited air-freight service (previous blog) connecting Lisbon and Madeira will commence on the 20th of this month according to the operator’s ............
