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Headline: The Spanish Holiday Property Market. Reports of its Demise (Apr 07) are Over-Exaggerated Listening to and reading reports this wee...

Tomorrow, Sunday, we celebrate Thanksgiving Day – ‘el Día de la Gracia’. Most of my family is American so it’s a regular celebration in our ...

No, it's not an optical illusion. It's a Mojácar pavement.

Greenpeace has built a montage of the possible effects of global warming with these pictures from Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez. The town ...

Mojácar was founded over seven thousand years ago as a Copper Age community. The exact site was around the foot of the hill known to us toda...

I read somewhere that children like ‘change’ – both the pocket variety and the new, the latest films or computer games and so on. Let’s see ...

A few days away from home, with the only Spanish contact - a book by Juan Madrid that I had bought at the airport in his names-sake city and...

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 ...