The other day, I was in the car driving the way I always do, like a bat out of hell…

Liver with fava beans and a good chianti, or a good Amarone, if you prefer the literary version to the…

I recently dreamt I had gone to a party in pyjamas.  In case you don’t follow, let me explain –…

Do you know what Feis Ile is? Feis ile is the biggest annual festival on the island of Islay, famous…

Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 –…

My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is…

Ah, the White-headed eagle – a beautiful, strong and fierce animal, at the top of the food chain, feared and…

January is the month of my birthday. I turned thirty-three, with the liver of a sixty-something year old. And I…

I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Not the portuguese perfect homonym for weather. because everybody knows that this weather is crazy,…

Once I mentioned the Ariel Atom, a car that can hardly be considered a car.  There is no radio, no…