Bom Dia Daily: Thursday 23rd January 2025 #portugal #news #weather #language #culture #wellbeing

Please subscribe for this daily 20-minute update of news, weather, language, culture & wellbeing in Portugal AND for the full show every weekday morning.

Comments in the chat, pics & vids to WhatsApp [phone]

Get more at www.goodmorningportugal.com / Support the show and join the Portugal Club at www.gmpvip.com

Today's original article - https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/12/31/seven-tolls-terminated-in-portugal-what-this-means-for-travellers/

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-bom-dia-daily-on-gmp-tv--5837522/support.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yes, have you not heard it's three hundred days of rain.
We have three hundred days of such and that's why
Deegle likes coming over here. It's like we're twinned with Belfast,
but you know the other way around, right. This news
story then kicking off with the news about the tolls,
and I've also got something quite disturbing from a cultural

(00:21):
point of view, which I want to share with you
as well. Coming back to that in just a moment
when we do a little bit more culture. Portuguese culture
is part of the Borndier daily seven tolls terminated in Portugal.
This was circulating around the start of the year when,
of course we were not broadcasting. So let me bring
that onto the screen. Now. This is a news source

(00:44):
I don't often feature, but it can be useful from
time to time. So thank you very much to the
euro Weekly News, News and Views since nineteen and ninety eight.
I don't know who that is. That's good of him,
whoever he is. Focused. It's very difficult now, isn't it
looking at a news website, because it's just covered in

(01:06):
adverts and well, bad news obviously from time mostly and
the occasional bit of useful information, which is one of these.
Here a one minute read from Connor Morepurgo. It's a
great name, isn't it. We have a seven tolls terminated
in Portugal dominator What this means for travelers. A total

(01:29):
of seven tolls across Portugal are set to be axed
in a bid to minimize costs in accessing various areas
of the country, as well as network routes into areas
outside of Portugal, bringing joy and relief to citizens. Last May,
the Portuguese Assembly initially approved that seven highways would no
longer have tolls, which sparked fierce debate between opposing political parties.

(01:52):
And I have the list for you. That's what you
want to know, isn't it. The Socialist Party had advocated
for an immediate removal of all the tolls, whereas the
Conservatives voted to gradually reduce payments at the highways. Yes,
highway robbery. The Socialists proposal was ultimately backed, and thus

(02:13):
from the first of January, going back twenty two days now,
we're twenty three days into the new year, folks, a's
it going there will be seven additional free highways in
operation throughout the country. How about that is this happening
anywhere near you? Oh that's a nice little vignette from Viziu,
A Vizio vizete vignette sourdough just about to go into

(02:34):
the oven. That sounds fantastic. You save me a slice
if you are pies loaves? Isn't this marvelous? Well done, Gumpus.
Keep up the good work your recipes for bread as well.
I saw one of those simple recipes for delicious, crusty bread,
and I thought, I must, I must send that to
myself and do. And I thought, what are you thinking?
I don't have time to make bread? But maybe I do.

(02:56):
Maybe I do. And Hugh is about to tell us.
I think how easy or not it might be to
make your own bread at home. Some tolls were debated
on if they should stay or go the portico of
Pauvoor with a name like that, it's got to stay
and jailus to stay in operation, costing seventy cents and
fifty cents to locals, respectively. Citizens can now utilize high

(03:19):
speed routes for free, where before they would have had
to make much longer treks to avoid paying any costs
to access other parts of Portugal and beyond. And I
think that was why the EU were flexing their muscles.
If I've got that right, if there's no other equivalent
or similar route, you know, like running the old road
running alongside the new one, for example, if there's no

(03:42):
suitable and massively not inconvenient alternative, it has to be
a free road. And here they are the list of
tolls that have been asked now in twenty twenty five,
the A four Loving Love saying the names of these
places in Portugal that I've yet to visit and look
forward to who are visiting? This is great. The tags
for this story are free Travel, Portugal, Socialist tolls and travel,

(04:07):
the A four trans Montana and Tonell de Morale. The
A thirteen that's the A thirteen one Pinal Interior, A
twenty two in the Algarve. That's that was a particularly
scandalous or controversial one, was it not? A twenty three,
the Beverra Interior, A twenty four, the Interior nort the

(04:27):
A twenty five or vinti sinc be Ash Littoral and Alta,
and the A vinti eto Mino in sections between Eschpozend
and Antosh and between Nava and dark they go and
sure you keep up to date with the latest news
from Portugal. Here there you go. That's the euro Weekly News,

(04:49):
which I think looking at the phone number for it,
I'll put the I'll put the link in the chat
so you've got that list if you want it. I
think this is mainly yeah, news and sales. The code
is three to four. That's auspain, is it not? So?
The anyway, the link going in. You're very welcome. That's
told off our Bondier daily news snippet this morning. If

(05:12):
you want to investigate that further or find out more
about euro Weekly News. If that is not on your radar, right,
come back. We'll conclude with the weather before we speak
to Colin in about ten minutes. My best mate is
one of the world's top sour dough artisans. Apparently, all
I can say is bread is lush with a bit
of a lurpack. What is not good with a bit

(05:33):
of lur pack? Most things in life could benefit from
a slather of the is it Danish butter? Morning? Everyone
from Gabby as welcome morning to you. Gabby. Ah, yeah,
must mention the next what's it called now? Is it
called the expat circle. Oh, a quick blast of let's

(05:54):
have Phil sing to us. You've got to subscribe to
get the whole message. But this is what Phil will
do for you. If morning I love this and I
start singing it myself. Here we go, good morning, good morning.
It's time to stop my awning. There we go, he
tells you he loves you every morning. It's fantastic. Film
My cup dot com, I believe, is where you can
subscribe to that good morning, good morning. I really must

(06:15):
stop my awning. Right Where was I going up? Gabby? Yes,
the I'm trying to find the graphic for the next
event at the Storytellers. Quite a lot of WhatsApp message
is here? Isn't that the way for everybody? I can't
see that right now. Perhaps you could send that to me,

(06:36):
Gabby and I'll save it. It might be the easiest
way this morning. If you're still there, perhaps send me
the graphic for the next gathering, the next lunch at
the Storytellers. I think we'll see you there, Mike, Will
we not? Tolls were one of the well spent taxes.
Portugal has some of the best roadway infrastructure in the EU.
Yin get it to yourself. Without tolls, the roadways will

(06:57):
deteriorate significantly over time. A fan of that, presumably though, John,
They will still be funded. They will still have to
be maintained taxpayer expense. And not all tolls are going,
are they, so maybe they'll average it out and we need, yes,
we need well, parts of the AA aren't a toll?
Are they? That? That little bit between Tornado and Caldash

(07:21):
you can jump on and jump back off again. We
need to lobby for removal on you. That's the point here,
mel is that if there's one that runs alongside it
the two four two, no, maybe it is the two
four two or the N eight, the N eight. Perhaps
if there's one running alongside, they don't have to take
away the cost. I think, pizzin a jackie. We love

(07:43):
our toll free roads here. The roadways are awesome and
far better for no one, no one on them. It's
really amazing, and the services as well. Right, the service
is fantastic. Message to you Chris from Pete, I hope
you have an awesome day off to get your coffee
from your very own barista. Well, I try to burn
mildly moist olive prunings. Ah proving a little bit difficult.
Is has Chris got his own barista in the office here?

(08:05):
That's all right, isn't it? Yeah? A thirteen from Mike.
It's toll free now we can travel from Tomato Koumbra.
That's a good one, isn't it fantastic? Thanks for that
little nugget there, Mike. Yeah, and I did laugh when
oh he's here. He's here to answer the pushback against
the far right. Curious Portuguese. It will be fairer now.

(08:25):
People who don't drive will have to contribute to maintenance.
Oh don't people who don't drive. It'll be fair in now,
people who don't drive will have to contribute to maintenance.
Is it as simple as that? I wonder? Or is
that a typo? Or is that sarcasm? He's up early,
you see. He gets to be sarcastic much quicker in
the day than we do. If that's indeed what that was.

(08:47):
But I suspect you're saying people who don't don't use,
don't drive, shouldn't have to pay taxes towards I mean,
that is a can of worms, isn't It's like the
people who don't have kids paying for the education of
other children. It's about the society portug He's not our
selfish little interests. Pon dear sol of life from Jackie. Right,
where was I going to go next? I don't know. Oh,

(09:08):
of the Alanta show. Cultural? Yes, cultural, but it's a
bit of news. It's a bit of culture and hopefully
a bit of language and pronunciation there as well. Colin
limbering up behind the scenes, limbering up too for our
gig on the fifteenth of February, where he's going to
do a few gags. They say the old ones are
the best ones, and he's going to be proving that

(09:29):
to us on the fifteenth of February. All right, let's
go to let's go to the picture pictures that as
yourda has said to us her sister and brother in law,
Oh was it gone? Hold on a minute, let me
just get this right and concentrate and stop giggling. Here right,

(09:53):
that should be it? Now? Oh, here we go. Would
you like to stay here? Because if you would, we
can get you five percent off. This place is the
has are there? Does it say there? I think it does.
And this is Yielder's sister and brother in law's place.
Yacaza the paida. They've done it beautiful. Look at this
it's got it's got natural rocks as part of the

(10:13):
landscape there. Ah, it's almost like a crumleg. I was
going to show you the pictures there. The Welsh in
vein invasion continues now, with Colin joining us in a
few minutes. It's a nice looking breakfast. Boy, oh boy?
Why do I always show pictures of food and talk
about food when I'm first thing in the morning, when
I haven't had anything to eat yet. I love in
that pool. You can have a dip and you can

(10:34):
have your breakfast. There you go, there's there's a little
pool there. It's nicely done, isn't it. A couple of
nice sun lounges next to it, beautifully framed olive tree
in the garden. There Paul looking good at night as well,
So well done. I don't know her name is Yielda's sister.
But it's a lovely spot, isn't it. In Look at
that traditional Portuguese grill outdoor kitchen right there. That looks fantastic.

(10:56):
It's I've got the moon over there. It has mood.
The moon over the chimney. How about that? So Kaza
they paid out five percent off. Drop me a line
if you'd like to go and stay in the Alantajo.
I don't know exactly where it is in the Alanasier,
but you're under the great, big blue sky of the
Alantasia right there, and staying with rocks in the garden.

(11:17):
Portugal has had rocks in the garden for many it
would be thousands of years, and a coach turner sending
us pictures of such. Imagine if you found them in
your back garden, you could turn that into a nice feature, couldn't.
You can probably tell the time if you knew how
to decode it at the right time of you as well?
These are kromleks? Are they not standing stones? And the

(11:38):
coach sent me these because I think you photographed these himself. Mate,
are some of these that looks like whales rather than Portugal?
Can't remember what you said when you sent me the message,
But they go standing stones and they might be connected
under the earth. They might be portals, They might be
Celtic portals. That's the way. Never don't worry about toll roads.
If you know how to stand on these, you can

(11:59):
end up in whales. If you rub the wrong thing
and that's probably not the first time that sentence has
been uttered. You can end up in whales if you
rub the wrong thing. Collins probably told one or two
young ladies that it is. It is so as well.
Welcome to the Good Morning Portugal show where we're in
the Bondia Daily. Let's have a look at the oh

(12:21):
no before we go to the weather cultural outrage. Oh well,
first of all, look at that. There's sour dough, b
loaves being made. There are pies were made and eaten.
I don't think that looks like that anymore. That is
just an empty bowl. Now at Kasa Turna the Welshman,

(12:42):
the Welsh wizard with the pastry right there. And I
got a little bit of trolling from Vitor Koshta, who
asked me if I moved to Portugal because of this,
Is this why you moved to Portugal? Apparently it's a
picture here of somebody watering pies. Pies watered to add
more gravy and wet the dough. Now, I think this

(13:04):
is taken out a context and someone's put on it.
English people season their food with water lmao. And there
might be a little bit of truth in that, and
let's face it, but the great thing about English food
is it's mostly not English. That's perhaps one of the
best things. I mean, there are some there are a
few brilliantly classic English dishes, aren't there Bangers and mash
and and oh, fish and chips. But that's not meant

(13:28):
that's not truly English, as I don't think, isn't it.
Don the Portuguese take some credit for us having fish
and chips. Anyway, all this to say, yeah, we do
take a little bit of stick around the world. I
say we. I can't take any responsibility for English cooking.
But so yeah, pies are watered to add more gravy
and wet the does I don't suppose coach turning you

(13:50):
did that, and I think it's probably a little bit
of moisture and wetting your dough first thing in the
morning or anytime of the day is not a bad
thing you do. You do need to glaze your crust
from time to time, you know, college trying to eat
as well. While I'm talking about glazing your crust and
onto this this, I was a little bit disturbed by

(14:14):
the correct way to eat a pashel donata. The identity
of the person who does this has been taken out
of the picture to protect their identity. Is that the
correct way to eat a pashtel donata? I think that
I think we should write to the ambassador about this.
I don't know. It's not the easiest or most elegant
thing to eat, and it's a real test of your deportment.

(14:36):
And you're finishing school credentials in how you eat a
flaky pashdel donata. But to go straight in with your
coffee spoon like that, I think is a little bit vulgar,
quite honestly, What do you think about how do you
eat yours? How do you knosh your nata? So to speak?
Not a good look, you might also say with that,

(14:58):
So yeah, how do you hashtag? How do you knosh
your nata? This morning? Quick? Look at the weather. Then
let's find these Spardan effects weather. Everybody, the weather is
like currency because dot dot dot ford in the blanks
and I'm going to the weather page now and we'll
she Yet, how do you know your nata? That could

(15:18):
run and run, could it not? Let's bring on to
the screen the weather this morning and see what's going on.
And it's continued to pee down. That is not a
technical or meteorologically correct description, but my gosh kaishi gatosh.
Definitely around Portugal. I had to unblock me drain last night.
And I don't mean that as a punt, I'd or

(15:40):
a a some sort of innuendo. Definitely out in the
front garden, unblocking the drain late last night. Very busy
day yesterday generally, Porto. What is up with you with
your sunshine today? There's gonna be a bit of sunshine,
clear sky eight at the moment, rising to fourteen. But
still weather, still wet weather. To take out your your

(16:00):
guadadaeschuva under your arm, take your brolly if you will.
Still rain forecast pretty much everywhere. Be careful out there
with all that wet weather and water everywhere. Lisbon fourteen degrees,
broken clouds currently the high of eighteen. Porter. Look at
that bit of sunshine. We had some sunshine here yesterday
as well. Actually it was a day of sunshine yesterday

(16:21):
despite it being very wet as well. On several centimeters.
I think of rain. Queen brew nine degrees with scattered
clouds at the moment, eighteen the high. That's a very
comfortable and nice high. In Colleen Brother, the wet weather
is bringing a mildness as well, of course, and temperatures
farroh seventeen the high fifteen degrees with scattered clouds at
the moment, and Brago ten degrees at the moment with

(16:42):
scattered clouds, rising to a magnificent seventeen and generally speaking, yep,
rainy day all around of the country and in the
autonomous regions fourteen degrees with broken clouds in Ya's orders
rising to eighteen and my data a little bit cooler
as it is sometimes six degrees with scattered clouds at
the moment, my data ten degrees the high. That's your

(17:04):
weather with Spartan effects. Don't forget if you want to
change your your wannga from your dollars into your euros
and pounds into euros and other currencies Spartan effects dot
co dot uk. You can open up a free account.
Let's give a nice big let's give a massive round
of applause as we turn over to goother Good Morning
Portugal show, in fact, the Go Motoring Portugal Show, and

(17:25):
so Colin, let me just take you off and actually
do that correctly and play the theme tune that we
work so hard on. Standby we'll be right back with you.

(18:00):
Mhm hmmmm A lab on, dear colamn, there in the end,
got there in the end, We certainly did. Yeah,