nortada
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Resident in Portugal and understanding the Portuguese system, we are better placed than most so we just try to offer helpful advice.Disagree, the covid restrictions info from the gov has been regular and precise & safe community portugal facebook page has done a fantastic job at quickly translating postingit without adding any guesswork. This particular forum has often been the opposite, made up guesswork with no starting point in any official statement becomes reality and gets passed on, completely unhelpful. Needing a residents card to enter to country last year for example, on here it turned into gospel but had no basis in reality.
Those with experience of Portugal know it’s bottom-up form of government, which is totally foreign to most from the UK (no pun intended). In practical terms it means that the take by the official in front of you is the rule of the day and that is the way it is.
Apparently the help we, in Portugal, have tried to give over the past year or so, has not been of much use?
Two options, you stop reading it or possibly easier still (for us) we will stop posting it.
This thread is a case in point, it was translated from an official SMS release for the benefit of those legally in Portugal. I posted it in here as a possible help to all but from some responses I will think twice before setting myself as an Aunt Sally again.
Rant over?
Because Graham has already responded and has greater first hand information than me, I have edited out my comments about the need to be a Portuguese resident to enter the country during last year’s lock down.
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