Spanish Shilling

One day, my late wife brought home a foal she had acquired from a gypsy. Barbara loved horses and always rode bareback, When she was a child...

I’m back from a fortnight’s holiday – to a village in the sun-lit green fields of southern Germany. Beautiful walks (they have walking- and ...

Back in 1982 while travelling in Guatemala, I met a Mayan fellow who told me that one should beware of the Catholics, and stick with the Eva...

El País looks at waiting lists across Spain. Andalucía comes out in last place for operations (173 days).  Opinion from the ABC here : ...

How can there not be enough homes in Spain? Well, there aren't - at least in the places where people would like to live. The propertie...

Down past the Castellana, on the bit called Paseo de Recoletos, opposite the Biblioteca Nacional de España , is a famous old watering hole...

News reaches me from Sweden that Per Svensson has died at the age of 92. Per was responsible for me launching my weekly bulletin ‘ Busines...

The co-official languages of Spain are a mess. Firstly – euskara is spoken by nobody outside the three Basque provinces plus neighbouring N...

  Easter Week is here and for once the weather is on its best behaviour. Perhaps a few showers up there in Galicia (they seem to enjoy the...