Spanish Shilling

Much is written in the more pious sections of the Facebook short and succinct posts about whether we are ex-pats or immigrants. The Spanish...

I am lying next to you, awake now while you sleep, For death has just released me, yet in your dream you weep. If only you could see me, s...

The authorities are worried, as more and more people move to the cities and away from their moribund villages in the quinto pino (the s...

Nobody wanted to buy the Hotel El Moresco. It was put up for auction during September but there were no takers. Comically, the local PSOE h...

It was good to revisit Vélez Blanco on Sunday (the día de turismo, as it happened) and have a great lunch at the Mesón El Molino, one of th...

Isn't that a terrific view? I used to visit record stores and bookshops when younger. So nice to flip through the records, stack...

As the Mojácar authorities continue with their plans to convert the 'pyramid mount' of Old Mojácar into a tourist magnet (yet otherw...

It's a long way across the city of Almería to get to the Paseo so, rather than put the kids in danger, we took them to the beach inste...

'Once upon a time, Mojácar, in the province of Almería, was a place located somewhere outside the known world; a secret place where spec...

It's forty years since the Mojácar fiestas of 1979. What has changed in that time? The program had a small budget and barely ran to co...

Every time we go to the dustbins these days, we are greeted (most of us) by an array of contenadores to put our waste in – glass, plasti...

As Facebook becomes ever-more concerned with racism, hatred and Boris Johnson, I turn first to something called Amor Vincit Omnis ( here )...

The British embassy in Madrid has a Facebook page - Brits in Spain - where it dispenses wisdom and advice. On the Pamplona San Fermin fie...