Tales of Meco Beach
An outsider´s view of life in Portugal
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Saviours or Sinners? Save the EMD Cinema, Walthamstow - 202 days ago
It’s what you do that shows what you want.Renato Cardoso, from the UCKG WebsiteI was saddened to see a report in the LondonPaper last week announcing the proposals for converting yet another cinema into a church. When I used to live in Plumstead, South. Topics: campaign, cinema, destruction, mcguffin, save emd, Uncategorized, walthamstow
No more pleasures in life… - 263 days ago
There was a nice little puff-piece on the news about a Portuguese bakery opening up in Los Angeles. Visited by the likes of Nicole Kidman, Kevin Bacon and Ben Stiller, the reporter broke the news that pastels nata were taking Hollywood by storm.But then.. Topics: Uncategorized
Back Home for a Few Days… - 265 days ago
Taking the opportunity to sort out a few things in Portugal. There has been a lot of news over the last few months about the Crise in Portugal: How things have been getting worse, the recession beginning to bite, and of course increasing unemployment.... Topics: Uncategorized
It’s deja vu, all over again - 348 days ago
Increasing unemployment, poor economic forecasts, country in the doldrums, falling house prices, government under pressure. Strange, but it all seems so familiar.Let’s tell you what happened in Portugal. It was a bouyant country, not the richest in. Topics: credit crunch, crisis, portugal, Uncategorized
Back in the, back in the… UK - 374 days ago
One of the rules of blogging that I read once was, and I paraphrase, “never say that you’ve been away for a while.”I’m going to have to break that rule because I have been away, and the changes have been pretty major.For a start.. Topics: london, portugal, travelling, Uncategorized


