Friday, March 29, 2024

In The Garden

  • Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) November +

    Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) November Things to do in November in your Veg Garden in Portugal. Read More
  • Na Horta (The Veg Garden) - March +

    Na Horta (The Veg Garden) - March March is a busy time down in the veg patch. Read More
  • Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) September +

    Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) September Things to do in September in your garden in Central Portugal. Read More
  • Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) October +

    Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) October Things to do in October in your Vegetable garden in Portugal Read More
  • Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) July-August +

    Na Horta (In The Veg Garden) July-August Things to do in the Veg. garden in July and August. Read More
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Days Out

  • Top 10 Beaches in Central Portugal +

    Top 10 Beaches in Central Portugal There are lots of beaches in central Portugal, we have picked out 10 of our favourites. They are a mix Read More
  • Obidos International Chocolate Festival +

    Obidos International Chocolate Festival Óbidos Chocolate Festival takes place around March/April each year.   Read More
  • Gois Bike Festival +

    Gois Bike Festival One of biggest Motorbike Festivals in Portual Read More
  • Festa dos Tabuleiros Part 3 +

    Festa dos Tabuleiros Part 3 Preparations for the Festa start early in Tomar. Read More
  • Festa dos Tabuleiros Part 2 +

    Festa dos Tabuleiros Part 2 In the second of Hey Portugal's series about “Festa dos Tabulerios” in Tomar Sylvia and Peter take a look at Read More
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Something's Cooking

  • Home Made Baked Beans +

    Home Made Baked Beans Here is the recipe you have all been waiting for.  For all of you who miss tinned baked beans read Read More
  • Milk Braised Pork +

    Milk Braised Pork Milk Braised Pork Great Sunday Lunch or Family gathering. Read More
  • Fish with Roast Peppers and Tomatoes +

    Fish with Roast Peppers and Tomatoes Fish with Pesto Roasted Peppers and Tomatoes This recipe is simple but very tasty and filling. Read More
  • Hummus +

    Hummus Hummus A really easy and healthy recipe. Great to make with your own Olive Oil and freshly picked lemons. Read More
  • Wendy's Cookbook +

    Wendy's Cookbook Wendy's Cookbook - a mix of recipes from Portugal and around the world. Read More
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Hello-Portugal becomes Hey Portugal !

The main thing is obviously the new name..let us explain why?

You, our readers, are no longer free to use the word Hello!   HeyPortugal 538x200

Hello! Magazine has raised trademark objections to our name.

We were surprised to find that in the closing minutes of our 2 month long Trademark registration campaign that Hello! Magazine obviously got very worried about us and sent 2 separate objections (one 39 pages long!) against the Trademark Name of HelloPortugal. They believe their 2 million readers of their weekly, celebrity focused magazine would get the two names confused!!! … I suppose with hindsight it is possible to see how their readers might! We did do our homework and knew that HelloPortugal readers would certainly not get mixed up with Hello!, especially in Portugal where their magazine is only distributed in Spanish and called Hola!’

We did some research and found that Hello Magazine actually object to anyone trying to use the word Hello in their trademark, worldwide! Even when used for clothing, stationery or perfumes (just to give some examples of objections they have made). It seems that Hello Magazine believe that they have the exclusive right to the word Hello..oh! silly us, we thought it was just another English word in everyday use.

Hello Magazine’s objections are to HelloPortugal using the word ‘Hello’ in the title, and using our website www.hello-portugal.com. They have even gone so far as to tell us that we are not permitted to use an exclamation mark with the word hello e.g. Hello! Not that we had, but apart from seemingly owning the word Hello, they also own the exclamation mark!’

It takes about 4-5 years to successfully overturn a trademark objection... but we have much more important things to be getting along with, so we are not going to bother!’

So on that note, and to those more important things ...“Hey Portugal”, is the new name for HelloPortgual. Keep an eye out for our new Portugal Magazine and don't say Hello...say Hey!