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Storm ‘Bruna’ rains till friday, Diwali lights up & 3-day blackout doubts
On Monday 9th November 2026, Carl Munson’s Good Morning Portugal! news leads with Storm Bruna triggering warnings and widespread disruption: 210 incidents in Madeira including landslides and fallen trees, mainland regions under weather alerts, and a derailed tram in Lisbon (not linked to the weather). Rain is expected until Friday, with further subtropical systems threatening the Azores and Madeira. Discussed: A viral social-media claim about an 'event' on 17th November is circulating. The meanwhile story notes that Diwali began on Sunday and that the Hindu community’s Diwali show returns on 29th November at Lisbon’s Aula Magna. Other headlines include Portugal planning 40 affordable homes in Bragança, the Lisbon protest assembly voting to keep tents in Rossio (Renata has moved on, others stay), and a renovated riverside park becoming a site for public sexual activity. Weather is mild and overcast, with Lisbon at 20°C and Funchal 23°C.
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Learn to speak Portuguese wine 🍷
Olá, boa tarde! Tonight at 8pm it’s the Portugal Wine Club, our GMP! Wine Club meeting, which has been running for more than five years now. Pour yourself a glass and join us. To get you ready, today’s sheet, Nº 24: Learn to speak Portuguese wine, is in the classroom. It has four phrases for the wine bar, the history from the Romans to the Douro, and a quick guide to the regions. Here’s a nugget to start: in Portugal, the grape variety is a casta. So when the waiter recommends a bottle, ask “Qual é a casta?” and watch them light up. And a bit of Wine Club trivia: Mateus Rosé, launched in 1942, took Portuguese wine to the world in a bottle shaped like a soldier’s canteen. Over to you: what’s your favourite Portuguese wine? Red, white, verde, rosé or espumante? Até logo, e saúde! 🥂 If you'd like to become a Good Morning Portugal 'Wine Club Wine Ninja' and join us on screen for the LIVE, monthly get-together, send me a DM.
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Never too late to talk Portuguese 🗣️ Meet Dr Esther...
Olá, bom dia, and happy Friday! As a child, the other kids laughed at her because she couldn’t read in Spanish, her own mother tongue. Today she’s worked as an interpreter and language expert for the UN, the EU and the University of Cambridge, and she has studied nine languages. This morning on the show we met Esther, aka Dr Languages, who helps adults understand why they get stuck learning a language, and how to build a way of learning that suits their own brain. We’ll ask her the questions we all want answered: why do so many of us stall after the first year of Portuguese? Is it really harder after 50 or 60? And why can we understand so much, then freeze the moment we have to speak? One cure for the freeze is ready and waiting in the classroom: your Portuguese elevator pitch. Thirty seconds about you, memorised, and ending with a question - build yours in a minute here. And because it’s Friday: tell us your funniest Portuguese blunder in the comments. Find Esther at drlanguages.com, and as @dr_languages on YouTube and Instagram. Bom fim de semana! ☀️
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Criminal facts in Portugal
Because there is crime in Portugal (it's not a paradise...), I'll place some ocasional news about the subject here. Seven people were convicted to prison (7Y9M to 16 years) for a total of 36 robberies. They robbed houses, with old folks inside, and businesses, perpetrated in the districts of Coimbra and Aveiro in early 2022.https://www.jn.pt/3644566357/sete-dos-15-arguidos-do-caso-teia-dourada-condenados-a-prisao/
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'Portuguese saying of the day' (updated daily)
"Mais vale saber que haver e dar que receber" It is better to know than to have, and to give than to receive
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