Spanish Shilling

Comments and essays about Life in Spain.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

No Comprendo

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Mojacar's strange rush towards the town hall continues. Soon, the high-electioneering period begins where the posters will be literally ...
Friday, May 04, 2007

Strange Candidates

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There seems to be a lot of fuss about the transfugas - those politicians which change parties (usually causing the government to fall as th...
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Monday, April 30, 2007

13 Parties Listed

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Well - here they are:- Listas presentadas elecciones municipales 2007: 1.- LEVANTE SOSTENIBLE DE MOJACAR (LEVANTE SOS. MOJACAR) 1 JOSE LUIS...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

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The parties are now ready for your support and your votes. In Mojácar, according to the Boletin Oficial de la Provincia , there are thirteen...
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House Sales Plummit

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The construction companies on the Spanish stock market are in free-fall after the penny dropped recently about the lack of sales in Spain. L...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

What's the Hurry, Henry?

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(From The New Entertainer, June Edition 2004) I was walking down the street the other day, minding my own business, when (out of an orange c...
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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Feng Shui at Astrid's House in Mojácar

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Sevillana (Endesa) has been busy the last few days erecting pylons across the rambla from Mojácar. The mayor, D. Gabriel Flores, together wi...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A couple of Parties Selected from Wikipedia

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There are now 3,099 political parties in Spain, with 30 new parties being registered every day last month. This means there is now one for e...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Vera becomes a City

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José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the president of Spain, has recently bought a bungalow on Vera Playa for a modest 440,000 euros. Actually, it’...
Thursday, April 05, 2007

The Record Books

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Ah - Mojácar. Always different. The politics here are different as well. Take the 2003 elections. Out of an electorate of 2500 voters, we ha...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Solidaridad

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There's an arresting looking picture that is on the blogspot for the CEM, http://ciudadanoseuropeosdemojacar.blogspot.com . If you don...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Bah Humbug

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So why would the increasingly soviet government of Zapatero push through its ‘most important piece of legislation’ just now, after two years...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Whatever You Want

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Batasuna advierte al Gobierno: 'Sin Navarra no queremos nada' The title says that Batasuna, the 'socialist', nationalist (a...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Media Monopolies

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That great apologist for democracy, the Zapadente of Spain, has cajoled the Supreme Court into changing its rule about radio and television ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Some New Apartments

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Poor Steve - that's his house, the white one you can hardly see to the right of the crane. His land is rather easier to see - it starts...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

The Strange Case of the Murdered Mayor

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There was a board-game on the shelf, a game I hadn’t seen in years. If I tell you that Colonel Mustard was found, dead, in the library with ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Sevillana v. People Power

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The electric company Sevillana was stymied in its attempt to raise a pylon on private land behind Turre on Tuesday 13th February. A band of...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Sopalmo Protest

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Sopalmo is a tiny village between Mojácar and Carboneras. Today it was the scene of a protest against the water company, Aguagest, which wa...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Second-rate

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It's hard work this new version of Blogger. Ahem. About the axe-head. I bought it in a weak moment from a large ferretería on the beach...
Monday, January 15, 2007

The Record Book

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Mojácar leads the way once again! The town was the premier tourist destination thirty years ago and its totem, the Indalo, hanging from a g...
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