Portugal Travel News

Portugal offers a pretty versatile transportation system. The only inconvenience is that you have to know the resources, or else, you will find yourself paying a high priced taxi to get to your destination.

WEST holidaymakers, leisure travellers and the business community were stunned this week to learn that Ryanair were not taking internet bookings for their popular routes from Shannon airport from next March.

A 1-0 victory in Dublin put France on the verge of qualification for the 2010 World Cup but the final step toward South Africa could still be a treacherous one in Paris today.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 LISBON: The Portuguese Football Federation wants Cristiano Ronaldo to join the national squad despite Real Madrid's protests that he is injured.

Portugal, one of the cleanest countries in Europe possesses the best hotels one can find in the world.

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Carl Malburg spends 250 days a year traveling with the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima.

Friends, family and parishioners will gather for the funeral of a Wigan priest who died after catching swine flu.

When you travel abroad you can count on spending a lot of money to see all the best sites, but sometimes there are activities that are completely free and rival those that you have to pay out the nose to experience.

Pedro Cabrita Reis , "Les dormeurs", 2009. Site specific. Fluorescent lights and electrical cables © Pedro Cabrita Reis.

A PRIEST has died after catching swine flu. Father Edward O'Toole, of St Edward's RC Church and St Cuthbert's RC Church in Wigan, contracted the disease after visiting the popular Catholic shrine at Fatima in Portugal.

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Porto is a city that retains the charms of its quaint, nostalgic past. During my seven-day road trip covering Spain and Portugal, we stopped at Porto, Portugal's second biggest city after Lisbon.

Good things arrive late in Portugal - be it the wine or off-season breaks. One of my favourite tipples is vinho verde - or green wine - where the grapes are picked late and drunk very young.

The mother of U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain is hospitalized in Lisbon, Portugal, after injuring her head in a fall, McCain's spokeswoman said Friday.

Britain's oldest ally and one of Bristol's strongest ties were honoured with the naming of a new quayside in the city's historic harbour.

Everton has launched an international awareness campaign to refocus attention on the two-year search for missing Madeleine McCann.

Portugal isn't Spain. While that fact is self-evident geographically, it isn't always culinarily.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT Arambol in top 10 beaches recommended for UK students HERALD CORRESPONDENT LONDON, OCT 13 Goa's Arambol beach has been chosen as one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world for British students on a gap year abroad by travel expert Gavin McOwan, writing in 'The Guardian'. Its 'spectacular and sweeping sands are so ...

I am an amorous travel writer. I fall in love with almost every place I visit. The thrill of arriving at a new destination feels as if I have been introduced to a glamorous and mysterious stranger.