Spanish Shilling

The official figures are in - 1,447,599 tourists visited Almería during the first eleven months of 2018. To think: just one more teensy-w...

One of the downsides of Brexit – as far as the millions of Europeans who live in the wrong place (Britons in the EU-27 or the legions of EU...

It's thirsty work watching a bullfight, which is why people bring along their own refreshments. Almería itself has a traditional 'ha...

I like this picture. There's nothing like a small cosy bedroom filled with books. My own bedroom is a lot bigger than this, and I'...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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