This makes us official
I receive an all-important piece of paper from the local câmara which is the Licença de Utilização for the adega. This makes us official. Although the building has been finished for over a year we have had to jump over the hurdles of Portuguese bureaucracy for this. Health and safety regulations (which never used to be much of a consideration in Portugal) are becoming ever more rigorous and everyone it talking these days about the seemingly untrammeled power of ASAE (which I see from my dictionary of acronyms stands for the Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica).