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Pamplona is the capital city of Navarra, in the north of Spain. The province is also an autonomy. Navarra was once a larger area, stretching...

Blackstone Franks - now known as Blevins Franks - started out its rise in Spain together with The Entertainer. This was in 1985. In those da...

There's a nice picture. The rocking horse was made about twenty years ago by a German called Mickel. All done beautifully, with wooden p...

‘ And now, for those of our viewers who still haven’t decided where to go for their Easter Break… ’, began the newsreader on CNN+, the 24 ho...

In our small corner of enchantment there are more and more newspapers (or rather, ‘free sheets’) than you can shake a pair of nine euro farm...

Now, there’s a dish worth trying. A blogger writes about his visit to Cordoba where he was presented in his diner by a menu in Spanish and, ...

We have a local fiesta in late February called 'el Día de la Vieja Remolona'. It's kind of a jolly picnic in the countryside wit...

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...