Spanish Shilling

I occasionally publish something in Spanish - at El Indálico , Actualidad Almanzora or, as here , La Opinión de Almería . This is about the...

Picture by Alfredo Piris. The artist was in Mojácar for a time in 1983. The picture is the view, he told me, from his lodgings in Seville....

Well, look at that. A small boy playing with what might be considered by an old-fashioned and irredeemably sexist parent as girl's toy...

It must be strange to wear a message written in a foreign language or - even worse - a foreign script - when you have no apparent idea of ...

I looked up the Almerian town of Fiñana on Wiki . It has a population of just over two thousand, a castle, a fortress, a hermitage, an eth...

There seems to be a cycling mania going on. Yesterday, driving around Mojácar was almost impossible with little gaggles of tourists en bi...

The issue of the Hotel Algarrobico was due to be resolved this past September. But, as usual and to nobody's surprise, it wasn't. ...

The Cabo de Gata is a beautiful and untouched area outside the city of Almería. You may have to pass through some plastic farms to get the...

There’s not much acknowledgment of history in Mojácar as a rule, so we’ll gloss over the first few thousand years of the town and arrive, b...

Bullfighters on horseback, the Spanish rejoneadores . This was the offer on Saturday 30th August, the last day of a six-day bullfight fe...

Back in Senés - a small village in the hills behind Tabernas. The pueblo uses slate for its construction rather than brick or tiles. Senés h...

Driving home after a beer on the beach. I'd hoped for one in the pueblo , but there was no parking left: at 8.00pm. Why not build public...

Goodness, the fuss about a lion. I have a Facebook account which serves me a regular dose of people's thoughts, opinions, photographs a...

Delfos is a art and antique gallery on the Mojácar/Turre road, a place where you can get a drink, enjoy some music and paintings in a pe...

It's surely tee-shirt weather. It's so hot this month ('breaking records' hot) that I have been suffering from two or even t...

Mojácar was 'discovered' by artists. Until the 1950s, there was little to be said about the town. It had fallen into obscurity and t...

Mojácar and Vera were largely destroyed in an earthquake which occurred on the night of November 9th 1518. Articles in Spanish here and h...

Trawling back to last September here on Spanish Shilling , I wrote about the Parque El Boticario outside Almería City in the Los Llanos de L...