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- Mojácar. What are we selling today? 6 days ago The international tourist fair - FITUR - returns to Madrid in late January for its fortieth edition, and, frankly, everyone will be there. Will over 11,000 exhibitors looking to part potential tourists from their hard-earned dosh, the industry shows no sign of slowing down.Oh, there are stories of...
- Going Cheap: One Castle! 2 weeks ago Almería's Alcazaba was once put on the market by the City Hall. It must have been a bit strapped for cash when, in 1866, the castle and its 37 hectares of extension were put up for sale for 1,175 pesetas (seven euros), which even then, sounds a bit cheap.The city wanted to expand in the direction...
- Mary Jane 2 weeks ago There will be few readers who don't have a firm opinion about marijuana, so I won't dwell on the mafia hoping it will never be legalised, or the medical uses thereof and so on. We'll leave the American War on Drugs, cranked up by Richard Nixon and now quietly imploding as more and more states...
- White Rabbits 4 weeks ago We are in that small space between Christmas and New Year (complicated slightly by the Spanish who insist on celebrating the Twelfth Night followed by school the following morning). We must face the disappointment of not winning a farthing on the Christmas lottery last week, together with the...
- Pirates off Macenas 2 months ago A 'londro' - the kind of merchantman that appears in this storyIn the middle of the 18th century, the Catalonian merchantman “San Raimundo”, was heading for Cádiz loaded with wine. She had been anchored off Águilas (Murcia), waiting for better weather. On January 22, 1741 she set sail and...
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Barbara
07:19 AM January 10, 2013
07:19 AM January 10, 2013
Long-time blog written by someone who really knows (and likes) Spain. Humorous and informative
Geoff Barlow
20:45 PM September 23, 2014
20:45 PM September 23, 2014
Always worth reading. Interesting, informative and often uplifting.
