Rain has fallen relentlessly for the best part of the last two months, and our local rivers – which we quickly claimed, colonially, as...

But now we enter the time of year when most things are drab. Nature is in recession. And when you crave colour to stimulate the senses...

Still from a video shot by Luke. Baloiço de Soalhaes, near Marco de Canaveses After the whirlwind of arrival and discovery, delight and...