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It’s the simple things that catch you out. Like towels. We had spent a couple of nights after the Mojácar fire camped in the office on the b...

Somehow, August is the month where it finally dawns on us that the heat has gone on for far too long, where we’ve been battered and bowed by...

There’s a new service on our local radio: it re-broadcasts a three-hour program from London put out, apparently, by the Sun newspaper. So no...

I've been stuck at home for the past week, after breaking my foot in some odd and pointless way. After the Mojácar fire went through the...

Almería is suffering at the moment, with the famous ‘crisis’ beating down hard on the province. Unemployment is over 25% and house-sales, as...

Picture by Adrian. A fire started yesterday in the hills above Turre and, with a strong wind, it crashed down through Mojácar. We slept on ...

Well, I'm going to go with the majority on this one. Oh, look, what a good idea! Camel rides along the Rio de Aguas on Mojácar Playa... ...

Spain has always had an interest in milk, even if, until recently, you couldn’t find a cold glass of it anywhere. The old milk was a definit...

There’s an exhibition of sculptures by Bruce Cameron, a Londoner who now lives in Oria in north eastern Almería, in the nearby town of Olula...

It was a noisy week, between the fiestas from our village, starting at 11.30pm the other Friday and running through to the Sunday evening, a...

It's hot here in Southern Spain. The electricity bill has just gone up (again) and we can't afford, and don't have, aircon in th...

Do you remember ‘the Twinkie Defence’? This was the story of some mad bastard who ran into the mayor of San Francisco’s office many years ag...

The other day, the British Bullfight Club, more properly the ‘Club Taurino Mojácar’, gave a talk at the Vera Bullring. I was joining in to s...

Who needs to employ some foreign SOB when we've got those clever programs on the Internet to help with translations, or better still, Yo...

Man it’s hot. The soaring temperatures here in Spain have made it almost impossible to move, yet impossible to sleep either. The bed is soak...

Have you seen the latest offer from the government to get that smile back on your face while the economy lurches forward into the famous if ...

If you are living in Spain, over 18, non-Spanish European and have asked for the right to vote (that's around 350,000 people) and were w...

A meeting was held today at the Best Hotel in Mojácar to discuss the 'illegal homes', 'land grab', town hall corruption and ...

There is a remarkable mountain just by where I live. It looks artificial. It appears to have sculpted sides leading up to a flat summit. It’...

In the old days of a century ago, the atlases used to show a lot of pink. This was the British Empire which stretched from Henley to Hong Ko...