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The fiestas are all but over (just... one... more... week-end...) but, since the standard of the entertainment here in Mojácar has been deri...

The PSOE has long worried about the ‘foreign vote’ in local elections. In 1994, the government of Felipe Gonzalez had proposed that those Eu...

The traffic has been intense over the past couple of months. There are few places to park (you don't make money building parking spaces...

Here's a cute summer picture of Mojácar. It looks much more peaceful here than the reality of the holiday thrash. The August fiestas wil...

Dear Ms Daboo, I was very sorry to hear about the tragic death of your father, the treasurer for the Bank of Umginginglovu. Truly sad. Being...

Spain has always had an interest in milk, even if, until recently, you couldn’t find a cold glass of it anywhere. The old milk was a defini...

Man , it’s hot! Apart from a strong wind in the afternoon, the air is flat, slightly steamy, and hot. No doubt the rest of Spain is hotter, ...

One of my favourite drinks in Spain is an iced milky drink called horchata . It tastes sweetly of nut. The drink is originally from Valenci...

The phone had been out for a few days, but the internet was working. It may not last, but that’s actually an ideal state to be in. The chil...

I was raised on the fine novels of H. Rider Haggard with his heroes like Alan Quartermain and The Elephant Hunter. Here we see an example o...

Without doubt, it’s the oddest city on the Spanish mainland. Cartagena (New Carthage, Cartago Novo) is a navy city about 60 kms from Murcia....

I’ve got the record somewhere, featuring that song which goes ‘black ees black, I wonn my babi back’ , the smash hit for Los Bravos in 196...

I’m obliged to balance my life around football this month – as if the last eight months had never happened. The endlessly televised sweep o...

T wo pictures from last night. The truth is, the first picture is posted here for the pleasure of a ‘statistically appreciable minority’ of ...

So, you can see what happens during the World Cup. Between the fans staying either at home, or at least in front of the TV set inside, toget...

It's a surprisingly overcast weekend, with some rain over Mojácar and lightening up in the hills beyond. This morning, the second day of...

T he phone rang. One of the kids had been messing with the damn thing so I wasn’t immediately aware what was going on. The CD was belting ou...

The Moors and Christians is a fine old traditional fiesta which dates all the way back to 1988 when somebody decided to dress up as a Moor –...

This is a picture of a bit of road. Yes, yes - prize winning stuff. This portrait of a piece of the King's highway is just below the Mo...

I was in Pamplona last summer when I was suddenly taken short by an urge for a haircut. You know how it is – by this time of life, you are ...