Brittany Ferries have changed their mind and will not be running the new route between the UK and Portugal this year which is very disappointing, details here:
https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/info ... lldTo59HuA

Portugal is picking up the pace which vaccinations, they announced on tv that they successfully vaccinated 129K people in one day yesterday. But atm proof of a negative PCR test is still required on arrival, and passenger locator forms have to be completed online prior to arrival so you can show a Q...

In my case their website was originally setup post Brexit with an EU and Non EU option on their store page, the Non EU side prices where VAT and fee free, with the emphasis on those cost being collected by the courier company (UPS) prior to delivery. But they screwed up the fee collections which mea...

Slightly off topic I ordered an Olympic 2” weight lifting bar back on February from Rogue in Belgium and received it last week, there had been some hit and miss reports of some people getting bills for the import taxes and fees and some not getting billed. So Rogue emailed me to say I must pay them ...

Portugal The UK and several other countries are on the Portuguese red list and anyone arriving by air, sea or land must register their data with the Portuguese SEF Servico de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, https://www.sef.pt/en/Pages/homepage.aspx (the equivalent of the UK immigration and border servic...

I’ve found the Spanish website N332 www.n332.es (FB N332) useful for up to date information on the situation in and around Spain and it’s borders. It’s run by a Spanish cop who translates it into English for the visitors and ex-pats

I had the AZ jab on Saturday afternoon and felt awful on Sunday, my body and joints ached, and I spent most of the day vegging out on the sofa. There may have been mitigated factors that I had a few beers Saturday night too that compounded the effect. But Monday morning I feel much better

It would be fitting for her funeral if the hearse did a lap of the Nuremberg ring, though I suspect that a voice may be heard from the back shouting “faster, faster.....”

The latest vaccination stats show that 24.75 million Brits have been vaccinated, yet only 1.1 million Portuguese have been vaccinated, in fact more Brits have received their 2nd dose than the total of Portuguese vaccinations. So there’s a very long way to go.

General duty of lockdown until Easter The general duty of confinement will continue until Easter , with António Costa considering that this is one of the "general rules" that must be maintained in the coming weeks, meaning that people should stay at home whenever possible. The prime minis...