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Today is the International Day of Tourism. Spain is, I think, the second tourist destination worldwide with over 55 million tourists wanderi...

There’s been quite a lot of traffic on the local Internet forums about whether or not to support British bars – or perhaps ‘British business...

The Spanish can really make something out of the oddest materials. Here - essentially - shit. This is the view of this morning's present...

We were working on the subscriptions the other day, sat on the floor and covered in stickies. The most mundane and boring job of the whole l...

I have the Spanish satellite system, the alternative to Sky and all its wonders. It’s probably not as good. However, it has an ample selecti...

I went to the bullfight last Saturday - a jolly event in a temporary bull-ring set up on the beach. A rejoneador (pictured here having a we...

A report in today’s El Mundo recommends having a good kip after lunch – known to residents and visitors alike as ‘ la siesta nacional’ – o...

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Our area has long been seen as attractive to artists, but here's a local artist born and raised here. The text is from Jeanne Henny . Th...

How often we worry about communicating. In Britain there are many different accents and slang, which help to breed a sense of belonging to a...

Around thirty Greenpeace activists arrived in a dawn attack on the beach of El Algarrobico this morning, Thursday, and proceeded to paint i...

This is a strange summer - it's been hot, with that sticky and uncomfortable type of weather that leaves you in a bad mood (which only a...

This is a picture of 'The Moors Blood', taken on the way between Sopalmo (a hamlet west of Mojácar) and Carboneras. Perhaps this is ...

Mojácar once again has a busy couple of months full of events. Forgetting the Punch and Judy shows, the stand-up comedians and so on, we hav...

What do they say – something about ‘democracy being the best of a bad bunch’. Certainly in the USA, where the Republicans spend twenty times...

The new mayoress of Mojácar, Rosa María Cano, took office today. She has the support of her party, five councillors, plus three more from C...

The Sunday procession, where the multitudes of brightly costumed celebrants make their final farewell.

Some pictures taken around midnight as the Moros y Cristianos arrived. Bands, people, noise, costumes and fireworks.

Moors and Christians The Moors and Christians celebrate the story of Mojácar's defeat in 1498 and how the two sides managed to turn the ...

I had been carrying the neon tube in my car for a few days, ready to try out a small experiment. It was a bit too long so I had a bit of it ...