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Around a hundred years ago, Mojácar had a population of six thousand people. Almost all of them lived either in the village itself, or in t...

One of the charms of the south-east of Spain is its intriguing desert. Dry hills festooned with a few scrub bushes and a rabbit or two...

These pictures and others come from Fritz' diaries, created in the 1970s. The page size is 13.5 x 21cms. American-born Fritz lived in Bé...

The Almería Museum of Art (opposite the train station) has a small exhibition of artists from the Indaliano Movement ( Wiki ). These were Al...

Once the main Spanish parties (less of course Podemos) and media have gotten over their excitement regarding Venezuela (and their criticis...

Not all of the foreigners who move to Spain do so to retire gracefully, or work for a company or for themselves in an honest way. It is said...

The news is that the old Cine Tenis down at the far end of Garrucha, the open-air summer cinema also known as the Cine de Verano and the Pip...

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...