What's good about the Algarve laws?

[Graham]

I know we are often knocking the Portuguese lawmakers / bureaucracy, but I think they do have some things that are better than the UK

1. Licensing laws (or lack of) - Why should a coffee shop have to spend loads of hours and money getting a licence to serve a brandy with my coffee - or why can't I have a glass of wine with my eat-in Fish and Chips

2. Hi-vis jackets in cars - this is a really good idea - I wonder how many lives it would save in the UK at very little cost?

3. Complaint books in restaurants - again I think this would raise standards (or if EU wide close almost every taverna in most parts of the Ionian!)

Any other rules/laws/ways of doing things that are better than good old blighty?

[digger]

........ ways of doing things that are better .........

4. instead of self-service pub grub with nowhere to sit and eat it, you’ve got waiter service and a clean paper tablecloth.

5. buy a book or a box of chocolates and you’ll get it gift wrapped free of charge without even having to ask.

[bica]

Those radar controlled trafic lights that measure your speed and then change to red if you are exceeding the speed limit Better than speed cameras with their £60 fines and three points on the licence.

B

[Graham]

Bica - forgot those - I think they're brill

It did, however, take me some time to realise why every trffice light I met on the way to the western point was red

[Michael Crane]

It did, however, take me some time to realise why every trffice light I met on the way to the western point was red

I had the same thing happen to me. I really must slow down!