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?

........ 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.

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.

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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

Graham wrote: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!