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There is one thing that we are all to find out – sooner or later – when living in Spain. There are lots of rip-offs. Beyond paying a bit too...

There are elections in the air – the American ones which appear to take a year to resolve (or longer if they can’t agree on those Florida ‘c...

The second meeting was held tonight, Wednesday, in the hotel Continental. The meeting was in English and chaired by Albert Schroter with th...

The POTALA - the Plan de Ordenación Territorial del Area del Levante Almeriense, the Junta de Andalucía-driven plan for our future, was the ...

It was a few years ago now when the Algerian elections were won by a group of fundamentalist Muslims called the FIS. The Algerian government...

Picture: Portalbox.net Canal Sur dedicated about ten seconds to it on its evening news. Canal Sur TV (Prop. Junta de Andalucía) noted ‘that...

Some pictures of today's demonstration in Vera to support Mr and Mrs Prior, whose home was demolished earlier this month by order of th...

There are around 1,000 'illegal' homes in the province of Almería, denounced as such by the Junta de Andalucía: mainly in the easter...

You will no doubt be pleased to read that Democracia Nacional (Love the name, guys) has been (finally) granted permission to hold a demo th...

From the top. *Mrs Prior and a neighbour collected signatures and expressions of support from the people of Vera outside the Town Hall. You ...

I had a message on my phone to call someone. ‘ The house next door is being knocked down! The police are there and workers and a big bulldoz...

For years the tune never had any words. Duh duh, duh duh, di da da da... etc. Now, finally, the lyric to Spain's National Anthem has bee...

Here's a picture of the home of a retired English family being demolished by Junta de Andalucía goons. The house had building permission...

The first baby born in Spain in the New Year - apparently a couple of seconds past midnight - comes from Bolivian parents. He was born in a ...

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...