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There he is, the Indalo as celebrated and revered by the City of Almería. The totem is called El Indalo and is said to be a good-luck sign a...

So, it starts in Mojácar. Neither the idiot (presumably British) kid who writes his stupid graffiti, neither the (presumably Spanish) kid w...

Recent news from the housing sector in Spain is pretty dire. Here’s a few pieces from the press. Housing minister Beatriz Corredor said last...

Poppy Day article removed by Court injunction.

I was at the fuente picking up supplies when the German fire-eater called me over. 'Look in the sky', he said, nonchalantly playing...

Tonight we must put the clocks back an hour. There is some reason for this which escapes me slightly, along the lines that it stays dark in ...

Doonesbury (G.B.Trudeau) is a daily current-affairs cartoon which has been going for at least 35 years in the USA. I've got a couple o...

This is the old market in the Ensanche area of Valencia, called the Mercado del Colón. A few years ago it was reamed out and re-invented as ...

Don't be confused by my photo, taken in La Hortaleza in Madrid - the Santander is doing very well. See Wiki for the lowdown on this - th...

Leslie Howard was perhaps Britain's best-known film star in the thirties. The red-headed star of ' Gone with the Wind' and ...

From Iberica 2000. After 15 years of investigations, experts in knowing what is happening to Spanish lynx have discovered that research bio...

Cantoria. Sunrise. I had agreed to meet Becky from the television crew in the main square – or perhaps it’s the only square – in the small ...

A friend from Valencia sends me these pictures. Seems that not everyone there can afford a house. Turns out that it's a street lady who...

Pepe (Carlos I and El Salmonete) has taken on The Trufibar, the large place on Mojácar beach (opp. the Lopez nuts and bolts shop) popular wi...

Cantoria is a small town just six kilometres north from Albox on a rather nasty road which will one day be a motorway. There are some 3,500...

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What on earth is happening to Spain? We've seen the cruel demolition of a British-owned house in Vera by the authorities back in January...

A festive scene taken during the Mojácar fiesta. The hideous building on fire is the 'Angelas' (was 'Sondras') a nick-nack ...

Summer ends - or begins, depending on if you are a tourist or a resident - with the passing of August and the final convulsion of the Mojáca...

I was reading some rubbish in the comments section of a Spanish webpage called Meneame (Stir Me Up) at http://meneame.net/ which collects ...