Spanish Shilling

Comments and essays about Life in Spain.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

I briefly ran a bar in Bédar and made some very nasty tapas. Urrrpf.

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My first (and penultimate) foray into business was to open a bar in Bédar in 1976, when I was a nipper. The Bar was called 'El Aguila...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Guernica Renamed (and Reinvented)

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One of Spain's most famous paintings, the dramatic and bleak artwork known as 'Guernica' and painted by Pablo Picasso, has an i...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

A Short Break

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Before the fuss with my broken ankle, Loli and I had taken a week's holiday, driving towards a tiny rural hostal called Apikale in the ...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Murdoch Looks at Spanish Acquisitions

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Imagine if Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing champion and defender of both Brexit and Donald Trump, the owner of Fox News , the Times of London...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

The Magic Roundabout

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Mojácar is known as a refuge for artists. These days, the shine may have worn off this idealistic statement, what with control of the local ...
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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Just Sayin'

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A long time in bed, as I nurse a broken ankle. The public hospitals here in Spain are good (I lost my private health insurance along with my...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Keep España Tidy

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Our local English-language radio station Spectrum has this excellent campaign to clean up the beaches. Spanish beaches are often filthy (a...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

It's Been a Long Summer...

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While we shudder quietly over the story in The Mirror of the elderly British tourist who found ‘too many Spaniards’ on her Benidorm h...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2018

It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It

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Lenox Napier, the tone-deaf writer from Spanish Shilling, has received special recognition this week from a Tibetan reader was has honoured ...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

The Excavation of Old Mojácar

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The archaeologists from Granada University are winding up their first season dig on Old Mojácar, the mount that can be viewed from the vil...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

Almería is a Beautiful Province to Explore

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Mojácar is a nice looking village with astonishing views and a residential quarter of white cubist houses and narrow streets which has been...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Invasive Species

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We are defended from the threat of ‘invasive species’ by laws, the Ministry of the Environment and the sterling is sometimes arbitrary wor...
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