Spanish Shilling

  I’m surprised we don’t have an identity. There are 307,000 Brits living in Spain and perhaps a million stretched across the whole of EU (...

  Here's a story from Ángel Medina. We used to run a newspaper together called El Indálico.  ... It was the year 1974. Franco was still ...

We were talking over a bottle of wine about some of the old times and I remembered ...

Times are hard. We have a beggar installed outside each of our supermarkets these days. Each one of them appears to have his patch and of ...

  In the bad old days, the village postman wasn’t much good with foreign names (although he liked to collect stamps, sometimes removing them...

  The FITUR – Spain’s gigantic tourism fair – is now over. Deals have been struck, hotels booked, new attractions publicised and above all, ...

  What a marvellous thing the Internet is. Now we can throw out the set of encyclopaedias, talk to all our friends for free, save a fortune ...

Ángel Medina and I used to produce and edit a monthly newspaper a decade ago called El Indalico which ran for around 108 editions.  Ángel ha...

No doubt like they do everywhere else, Spain hauls out its special gala TV shows on New Year’s Eve to help bring in the celebration. We mu...