Spanish Shilling

  One of the questions now being asked, now the local fiestas, celebrations, concerts, rallies, expo sitions and sporting events are largely...

Each week I write Business over Tapas and send it out to subscribers. It comes with plenty of useful news about life in Spain, and a well...

  Churning through the media articles every day to find material for my weekly bulletin about Spain, I often find pieces which are designed ...

  Two things to know about me – I’m blind as a bat… and I like bats.Well, any critter really.  The bats come from finding eleven of them st...

The Spanish have so many wonderful things going for them, that I can only lament that I spent the first thirteen years of my life living e...

  Gosh, it ain’t half hot. It’s so hot I’ve got a towel wrapped around the pillow. The window is wide open and the screen has been checked...

For some reason, we are getting lots of telephone calls in these times from unknown numbers. My Android phone is good enough to say: ‘wat...

 I don't suppose that anybody cares much, but me and Facebook , Facebook and I, are about to part company.  We had a longish fling toge...

It’s been so hot here recently (thankfully, the weather changed for the better after the weekend) that I decided it was time to have a loo...

 The arrival of June means summer is here, which brings with it hot days and steamy nights, lots of visitors to dodge (or greet, depending ...

Isn’t it a grand thing when one can change one’s opinion? It doesn’t happen often in...

There is so much spoken about making Mojácar more attractive for the tourists. This begs a few questions:  1. Why?  2. Where are we going to...

  And how are our friends the banks doing? The banks used to – vaguely and no-doubt erroneously – be thought to be more of a service for c...