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There is a particular spot on the beach near the office which is especially recommendable for those lost souls who wish to enter into a semi...

I had to meet someone the other night and we had agreed over the phone that I would come along to Paco’s Bar for a chat. Parking in Spain is...

Apart from some quiet giggles from the back row, anything to do with sex was met with silence or a certain suspicion from the boys in my cla...

(Spain: somewhere on a narrow and dusty road to nowhere). I was driving along just this side of safe, with one eye on the speedo and the ot...

How good are you on names? I have a small problem with remembering them which dates back to school times. I attended a place with eight hund...

There is a story today in El Mundo about the reporter who smuggled a gun on board a ferry to Ibiza. He had it stuck under the seat of his c...

The idea behind insurance is obvious. You pay a little out on a regular basis and it will save you worrying about an unexpected piece of bad...

Having some time to kill today, I went down to visit a friend who has a store on the beach here in sunny Mojácar. How's business? It...

The day would start with a small libation in the plaza. Late, perhaps, but it had been a long night. There were two bars, facing each other ...

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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...