Spanish Shilling

Comments and essays about Life in Spain.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

What's Your Poison?

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  I was asking Google’s AI about religion: In 2025, between 53% and 55% of Spaniards will identify as Catholics , although only a smaller...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Airport Run

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Sat in the car at the airport, doing a swing past the guards every so and along so as not to get stuck in the expensive park and queue to pa...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Putting Them Through Their Paces

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  I bought my first car from a dealer in Almería. I was eighteen and had recently (that morning, probably) passed the driving test in Huerca...
Friday, August 01, 2025

Sticky Cakes

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  Do you remember ‘the Twinkie Defence’? This was the story of some lunatic who ran into the mayor of San Francisco’s office many years ago ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

That'll be an Eiffel.

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 It's so magnificently 'orrible that it's worth a posting here.   Europa Press tells of this idea to build a truly gigantic me...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

The Thirst

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  It’s so hot where I’m living, so very hot, that I’m thirsty all the time. When I go shopping, I buy drinks. Water, horchata , beer, juice...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Could You Speak a Little Louder Por Favor

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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...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Mojácar's Moors and Christians Festival

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  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...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Pink Wine on the Nekkar

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