Beware of your Insurance Company
dated 2008-05-13 | posted in columns | topic Consumers | permanent link
True or false? If a car hits yours and you are clearly not at fault (attested to by Brisa, the witnesses and the driver at fault) then you could be liable and have to pay for the damages made to your car? The answer: Maybe.
Here’s what happened. On March 29 I pulled into the toll lane to pay my €1.15 on the A-5 highway from Cascais to Lisbon. I was last in a line of cars waiting to pay. My friends and I were eagerly talking about the musical ...
Writing on the Ribbons
dated 2008-05-27 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
If educators had looked at Joana’s school transcript ten years ago, they would never have predicted that she would have graduated last week from Universidade Católica, esteemed by many as Portugal’s finest school of higher learning.
When I met Joana at the SOS Children’s Village in 1998 she was floundering in a Portuguese public school. One day I asked how her English classes were progressing.
“Our teacher has been gone for two weeks, â ...