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There’s something queer about the food these days. You go to a restaurant to eat and half of the menu is designed for some kind of wedding ...

We have a village doctor called Dr Galindo. He is the old-style kind of doctor who looks after his patients. He may be on the ball with the ...

Those of us who wanted, voted on Sunday in our local town. The local people voted with trepidation, since a vote for the wrong party-leader ...

I was at the counter in the supermarket this afternoon, waiting to pay for my few and modest provisions, when I was reminded, yet again, tha...

It has taken a while to get as far as the title in last Sunday's Voz de Almería, which hardly needs translation. The story says that the...

We've been looking at old newspaper stories about Barbara's work with the disabled here in Mojácar. She started an association calle...

See the outfits! The shoes! These little girls are going onto the stage with their dance mistress to show us some 'sevillanas', a ty...

As we know, Semana Santa, Holy Week, is a long and agreeable holiday. We spend it on the beach or in the bars. A few of us might dress up in...

We are in the days of the 'pre-campaign', as defined by the rules which were quietly changed this past January. You can't put up...

If I am faced with a word or name I'm not familiar with, I copy it out carefully. I expect most of us do. However, foreign names are con...

I suppose there is a natural reticence in getting involved in local politics – or even going as far as voting. We’ve all either heard, or in...

We used to have a number of pine trees in the fields around the house. They were planted originally by my father about forty years ago. He w...

There's a graffiti outside the Centro de Extranjería in Murcia, the place where, from nine to three, five days a week, scared or patie...

Long time Mojácar resident Struan Robertson (owner of ' The Time and Place ') has written a thriller available from Amazon . Just ty...

Well, the Town Hall has spent a fortune on the two large empty squares up by the church in the village. The Mayoress wanted to build an unde...

It seems that a lightening strike decapitated the Vera Sacred Heart yesterday. The ten metre high statue was erected in 1949 on the Cerro de...

¡Ay, que gusto ir a comprar en Mojácar donde siempre uno está asegurado de encontrar prendas y otros recuerdos de calidad! "Hay un pelo...

It was to be a quiet party, just five or six of us. Maude had baked a cake and John had bought a bottle of champagne. There were a few beers...

Here’s a piece that caught my eye (from the local daily newspaper): ‘ The Comarca of Andarax has enough natural resources - scenic, cultural...

Alan Simpson died the other day, on his way home at lunchtime. He was one of the Mojácar 'old-timers'. We gave him a good send-off a...