A tornado hit Faro docks on Wednesday afternoon, overturning boats and caving in car windows.The Captain of Faro Port, whose own building lost a door, said the tornado came in from the Ria Formosa and destroyed everything in its path.
A tornado hit Faro docks on Wednesday afternoon, overturning boats and caving in car windows.
In June 2017, Europcar bought Goldcar, the Spanish car rental company that has an impressive number of complaints from holidaymakers who have felt upset and belittled when hiring a car at Faro airport.
The ‘leading company in the car rental market,’ according to Goldcar, has announced the opening of its second office in the Azores, this one is on the island of Terceira at Lajes international airport.
Portugal’s National Civil Protection Authority has registered 490 incidents between 18:00 on Tuesday evening and 15:00 on Wednesday afternoon, especially fallen trees and roads that have needed clearing, due to snow.Many trees fell overnight in high winds, said Carlos Pereira, operations officer at the Authority, noting that there is no record of fatalities or serious accidents related specifically to bad weather.
The All4all accessibility programme, launched in September 2016, has been helping tourism companies, restaurants, events and travel companies by financing projects to improve disabled access facilities.Public bodies including councils, regional tourism entities and museum and monument boards have benefitted from the installation of various mobility adaptations to help less mobile vsiitors and wheelchair-users, access services, sites and monuments.
Prime Minister, António Costa, claimed that the "good results" of the economy and lower unemployment figures "are not just chance, but the result of government policy."António Costa was visiting the tourism fair in Lisbon and used the occassion to roll out the cheery statistics that the Portuguese economy grew by 2.7% in 2017 and that the unemployment rate was down to 8.0% - taking full credit for his administration and its popular 'anti-austerity' programme.
Three medical services directors at Faro Hospital have tended their resignations, citing pressures brought to bear on them by management, to free up hospital beds by sending patients home earlier than medically appropriate.The complaint that Faro hospital is overcrowded is not a new one, with nurses at the end of last year, breaking ranks to expose ‘war zone’ working conditions and number of patients each was supposed to deal with.
Following the weather service's lack of forecasting success for the Algarve in the past 48 hours, the IPMA has pressed ahead with another set of warnings including the arrival of 12 metre waves that are set to crash into the cliffs of the western Algarve and west coast of the Alentejo.The rainfall predicted for Monday and Tuesday can be described as patchy, even elusive, but this is to change on Black Wednesday with promises of heavy rain, high seas and, for good measure, hail.
A 54-year-old Finnish woman died today after falling from the 8th floor of a building near the Martinho Castelo Branco School in Portimão.The alert was given at 12.42 on Tuesday, February 27th. The local Bombeiros rushed to the scene, as did a team from the National Institute of Emergency Medical (INEM).
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