In the news this week, the Mayor of Porto suggested “Spain and Portugal should merge.” We'd like to hear your thoughts on this. 

We'd like to hear about your experiences. What are your opinions on the Portuguese Public Transport service? Economical? Punctual?

In our experience we have found it to well priced and fairly punctual - certainly on par with other countries we have visited.

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We'd like to hear about your experiences. Have you used the Special Assistance service at Faro? In your experience, is it better or worse than other airports?

We'd like to hear about your experiences. Do you know of, or have you heard of huge fines being imposed on people for unpaid A22 tolls?

The No.19 bus has always started at the Polk shipyard, leaving local sleepers in their tents. It then speeds along Evans to the junction with 3rd street, the place where we, the 20 year visitors, wait to swipe our cards. At this point the bus is virtually empty. Only a trickle of the local variety are present. Ten minutes later we are full and we have reached the "Projects." The bus was half-full with a variety of age and local beauty.

The centuries-old Anglo-Portuguese alliance is sure to continue even though the United Kingdom looks like it will soon be saying farewell to Portugal and the other 26 member states of the European Union.

Generally regarded as the world’s oldest alliance still in force, it was signed in 1386 between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of England. The name “United Kingdom” only came into being centuries later.

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I thought you would be interested to hear about an important letter that was posted in Agoz that took almost 3 weeks to arrive at its final destination in the UK via a journey to Frankfurt, then onto Helsinki followed by a visit to Langley distribution centre in Vancouver Canada, writes algarvedailynews.com reader Graham Wright.

Due to the Brexit situation, my wife has decided to apply for an Irish passport. To be able to do this the original parent birth certificate had to provided and sent to Lisbon. The passport was processed and the important documents duly returned the Algarve.