Spanish Shilling

Did you know that one can actually drink even less in Spain now than in the UK when in charge of a vehicle? Spanish livers are apparently i...

An American woman I know comes up to me: ‘I met this man from Yorkshire’, she says, pronouncing it yawkshiyuh , ‘who thinks you don’t like h...

The Delfos art gallery stroke bar on the Turre/Mojácar road is a superb place to go for a drink - except that there is rarely anybody there....

Dear Auntie Bo, Christmas is on top of us and in Spain, there are a few amusing differences to what you’re used to. All of the British trapp...

I've been translating an article from Barcelona's greatest detective, Larry Kovaks P.I., into Spanish for our local newspaper El Ind...

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...