Spanish Shilling

Languages – especially those that one doesn’t speak – are an eternal problem for us all. It’s really quite tiresome to have to listen to som...

  It’s the time of the year when some of the pueblos in my small corner of Spain celebrate their various Moors and Christians festivals. Ho...

  I was in Baden-Württemberg (south-west Germany) for the past couple of weeks, enjoying excellent weather, good beer and food, while visiti...

  I followed my own advice a few weeks ago and bought a torch and a few cans of baked beans, put a battery in the radio and – what was the o...