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So what are the rules about blurring out faces in press photographs and TV news and documentaries? Are we protecting the innocent, or maybe ...

We enjoy two winters here in Almería, the proper one, which lasts for a few months and is usually passably survivable, and the tourist one, ...

I’m not by nature a flashy dresser – I’d have moved to Milano rather than Mojácar if I was – but early this morning I noticed that I needed ...

I was walking down the street of our local market town the other day, day-dreaming of the light chores that faced me as I fiddled absently w...

So, another public holiday has passed when everything, or at least, most things, were firmly shut. Shops and banks shut; boutiques and bars ...

Removed by order of the court!

A new piece of ice has detached itself from Antarctica - not the one on the right, but the one on the left. They are both a decent size, aro...

When we first moved to Mojácar, back before there was much going on there, we met a young Spanish fellow who was to become a great friend. W...

Breakfast is, as often as not, a meal shared with lots of friends. Small, feathery ones called ‘sparrows’. Now, British readers may not be f...

I had just discovered that the editor had pushed his fine paper up from biweekly to weekly and this meant that I would need to write somethi...

They’ve not done much in the past thirty years as regards the building of social or cultural projects in our town. There is an ‘artisan cent...

The Calamar Song (Apologies to Lonnie Donnegan) Does your calamar lose its flavour on your denture overnight? Does your partner say don’t c...

It rained the other day. You may have noticed it if you live anywhere near me, because it bucketed down with the enthusiasm of an explosion ...

Back in the sixties, the allies had this idea that it would be a good thing to have a few bombers aloft in the skies, loaded for bear (Russi...

It was Paul Beckett the artist who once said 'Mojácar is a beautiful village - despite the best efforts of the mojaqueros to ruin it...

This was the view yesterday from my terrace during the freak rainstorm that washed Mojácar clean. In fact: not so clean, as mudslides and f...

Forget learning a few words of Spanish and introducing a morning brandy into your café-life, there’s more to becoming a Spaniard than not tu...

Some towns want foreigners – more than others. While places like the Catalonian town of Vic or the Madrid town of Torrejon de Ardoz are in t...

Well yes, you can always find just the right photograph. This rather pugnacious one features in today's El Mundo (Andalucía) and heads...

‘Yes, good afternoon’, says the phone in Spanish, ‘my name is Josefina. I would like to talk with the subscriber of this number, Don…’ ‘Wha...