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Mojácar was just another crumbling Andalucian village until the beginning of the sixties, when the mayor, Jacinto Alarcon, had the idea of...

There's an opinion held by Officialdom that we can read things better if we go letter-by-letter. Which explains why ambulances and the p...

The morning run with the dog. He's a Briard, a French sheep dog - looking, sans aucun doute , for a French sheep to herd about, park i...

   En la zona de los loros de un zóo que hay en Inglaterra dicen hoy “trágame, tierra” cuando ven el deterioro que un papagayo grose...

On Friday, in the rest of Europe, it's Europe Day. Here in Mojácar, there's no time for this, we're simply too busy. This weeke...

The news in the Telegraph, followed by the rest of the British Media with that certain relish that the British 4th estate has for anything...

The ecologists, when not encouraging the demolition of foreign-owned homes or over-sized hotels, are concerned with fighting aliens. Not in ...

Our daughter Jessica is here for a week - over from the USA - and we were going through the old photographs, which are in boxes, crates, tru...

Welcome to Mojácar. The Town Hall has fixed the place up for the season, with repaired roads, new sidewalks and a fancy new roundabout. Th...

This is a picture taken on Wednesday of a number of people entering Melilla. Apparently around 500 souls, merrily waving their passports a...

So what happens to those millions of documents our friends the funcionarios are so keen on producing? Eventually, they go to the 'Ju...

The provincial hospital is in Almería and is called the Torrecárdenas. It's a gigantic building which is stretched to the limit. Hard-...

Some notes from this week's Business over Tapas *: No one seems quite sure what the new 'Ley de la Propiedad Intelectual' ...

With the first democratically voted mayor for Mojácar, back in 1978, Paco el Marullo as he is called, the town made a convulsive change from...

A funny picture I found on Facebook (where there are many angry comments, both from the British and from the Spanish). The scene is the W...

The Indalo is the old totem from Mojácar. Forget about all that stuff from the Cueva de los Letreros up towards Vélez Blanco, the little f...

This is a picture of a retired British couple enjoying a birthday dance outside their home in Vera, Almería, sometime last September. The ...

This is Jacinto Alarcón. He was the famous old mayor of Mojácar who got the village 'going' in the sixties. Following the Civil Wa...

Here's a disappearing custom - the complementary glass of hootch at the bank while you wait to see if you can afford that silver trink...

The plastic farms of Almería, the invernaderos , occupy around 260 square kilometres of land: almost exactly 100 square miles. They are some...