Spanish Shilling

  It’s a funny world – the expat press. Over here in Spain, there are a small number of both Brit free-sheets and paid newspapers, all solem...

  Christmas in Spain. At least down where I live, it doesn’t quite ring true like the old traditions in England. There’s no holly or mistlet...

  My own experience of galloping through the Madrid airport with my wheelie-suitcase last week, with eighty minutes to disembark at the inte...

I am  still in Oklahoma for a couple of weeks to come, staying with my son who runs the local water  company. He is fond of fast cars, when ...

Right now, I'm in Oklahoma staying with my son Daniel. I'll be here for the month of November, including a few days trip to Colorado...

  The best thing about the train is that it will take you into the centre of the city. You won’t be dumped in some stainless steel and marbl...

I first came to Mojácar in 1966 with my parents who bought two apartments here (I’ve just found the escritura ) for – apparently – 90,000 pe...

  I imagine that most of us have had a...

I haven't posted anything - purposefully - on Facebook for the past week. You see, there's nothing I wanted to say or show of partic...

  Well, there's an experience: I’ve just been to the UK for a few days. Since almost everyone who reads my Business over Tapas (a weekl...

  During the fiesta in the small pueblo of Tahal in Almería, which falls in the early part of October, many local people who have moved awa...

  A USAF B52 was taking on fuel from a flying tanker somewhere over Vera (Almería) on January 21st 1966 when something went wrong – the tw...

  I always wanted to go to visit Machu Picchu. And just stand on that hill. The fam...

It was a hot and steamy night - they always are, aren't they? - and I was ...

  I saw a billboard today while driving along the main road towards the playa on my way for a swim – it was the local ice-cube company adver...

 Have you noticed how many people have taken to recording every scene with their telephone-camera? I suppose it's one thing taking a vid...

It’s always nice to see when a new café opens near where I live. Sometimes, I even make an effort to visit there and have a coffee or a beer...

As Colin over at his blog 'Thoughts from Galicia' will tell you, our friends the Spanish sometimes fail to tune in to what is hap...