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  We are surrounded by louche pintadas and graffiti, somebody’s initials in blue, black, red or silver spray-paint, squirted furtively but ...

  There comes a time, perhaps, when your Spanish might be described as being pretty damn good. You can read the instructions, the newspaper ...

 Sometimes we are a little silly. Facebook got steamed up about a picture I posted - which came with the headline from a magazine article. Y...

 It's been a tough few months recently for the country - with protests of one sort or another receiving coverage in the national newspap...

  There’s a major bookshop in our local city, and I’ve dropped by there a few times – either to buy a novel in Spanish (which I can read, if...

  In the old days - the sixties through the early eighties - the Hotel Indalo, located in the Mojácar Square, housed the Bar Indalo: the f...

  Those of us who moved to Spain from the United Kingdom will have our view about how the old country has either prospered or gone to the do...

It was a shame that those of us Brits who back then in 2016 had lived abroad for fifteen years couldn’t vote in the famous referendum over...

  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...