I am enjoying the excellent YouTube videos done by Liz

https://www.youtube.com/c/TalktheStreets/videos

She is an excellent and inspiring teacher

Some newly published information (March 2020). If you become a tax resident of Portugal during 2020, you have until 31 March 2021 to register for NHR, and to avoid the 10% tax on your pension income. There are no changes for those who held NHR status before the law went into effect on 31st March. Th...

This is quite a complex subject but for info on the history of it and something of an explanation on who does what by far the best detailed info is here ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Portugal That detail gives a good background but doesn't really mention the private hospitals. I ho...

Big and new (at least to me) website at www,portugalpropertyrentals.com has a list of Winter let and Long Term Rental properties - Great to see these companies extending the season and getting more folks here outside of July/August.

Air Transat Announced recently that they are offering a Toronto to Faro flight for folks wishing to spend the Winter in Portugal or just the Algarve https://www.airtransat.com/en-CA/portugal/algarve/faro/flights?search=flight&flightType=RT&gateway=-AIRPORT_FAO&pax=1-0-0-0 A useful resource for findi...

The new offering from Nowo looks quite useful for owners and visitors. Beware the cost of calling their support line but otherwise not a bad deal
https://www.nowo.pt

Like most I expect, I have bought and tried the low cost solar lights with a spike that goes in the ground and a simple lamp and solar cell for charging. They are low cost but they don't survive long and don't give out much light. Is there such a thing as a 12v solar system with one or two larger so...

Portugal has an excellent pharmacy service, (Farmacia in Portuguese and each has an illuminated sign in the form of a green cross outside) many/most pharmacists speak English and it would be very unusual to find a pharmacy with only one English speaker. A surprising number of products are available ...

Portugal has some property labels that are not widely used elsewhere - here is a list of the main ones and an explanation of the logic T0 - Studio Apartment with no designated bedroom T1 - One Bedroom apartment T2 - Two bedroom apartment T3 - Three bedroom apartment And so on T1 + 1 - One Bedroom Ap...

Mine (renewed fairly recently) took three weeks and was posted to my home address, the same address as on the licence, by standard post.