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  I bought my first car from a dealer in Almería. I was eighteen and had recently (that morning, probably) passed the driving test in Huerca...

  Do you remember ‘the Twinkie Defence’? This was the story of some lunatic who ran into the mayor of San Francisco’s office many years ago ...

 It's so magnificently 'orrible that it's worth a posting here.   Europa Press tells of this idea to build a truly gigantic me...

  It’s so hot where I’m living, so very hot, that I’m thirsty all the time. When I go shopping, I buy drinks. Water, horchata , beer, juice...

Languages – especially those that one doesn’t speak – are an eternal problem for us all. It’s really quite tiresome to have to listen to som...

  It’s the time of the year when some of the pueblos in my small corner of Spain celebrate their various Moors and Christians festivals. Ho...

  I was in Baden-Württemberg (south-west Germany) for the past couple of weeks, enjoying excellent weather, good beer and food, while visiti...