Spanish Shilling

Cold and wet as I write this. It is colder inside the house than out, for some reason, perhaps because I’m hardly sitting still when I’m in ...

I started a newspaper here - 'The Entertainer' - in 1985. It built its way up to three editions and 40,000 copies weekly, plus a Spa...

It’s a funny place, Spain. There are now so many levels of authority, with so many public servants (‘ funcionarios ’ as they are amusingly c...

Zzzz . I slowly discover that my dream has once again taken me to a strange bathroom. I wake up with the pressure on my bladder and stumble ...

Hello Lenox, sqwerlie has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - loadabollocks. - in the XYZ forum. This thread is locat...

It’s a standard conversational piece at any get-together: a chance to show one’s true worth at the negotiating table, an opportunity to disp...

Another old article from the vaults - this one in Spanish. -Buenas tardes. Me llamo Josefina. Quisiera hablar con el abonado de este número,...

I found this on an old 'New Entertainer' posting (there's a useful site for old, deleted web-pages at www.archive.org - yes, n...

Concluding my holidays in the USA Flying across the heavens, in one of Mr. Boeing’s fine vehicles, at 600 miles an hour. I am wearing a ‘sup...

Life was so much easier before someone invented 'inventing'. In those far-off days, if there was something useful to hand, you grabb...

That's the tower at the Parque Comercial, the shopping centre on Mojácar Playa. It's fitted out as a radio station at the moment. T...

Sat in the car at the airport, doing a swing past the guards every so and along so as not to get stuck in the park and queue to pay and lug ...

I was visiting my daughter in the USA during the early part of this month, when the fine town that she had chosen to live was experiencing a...

We had spent an uncomfortable yet amusing few days in clink and were now out on bail. My mother, who had been supportive during the ordeal, ...

Now, all we need is a taxi They say that traveling broadens the mind. Certainly, having lived abroad since I was thirteen besides finger...

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...