Am I becoming desensitised? (0)
8/29/10 •
Yesterday I took a short walk with Chap to visit the market. My quest was to find boxes to help in my imminent move to a smaller, gloomier but cheaper apartment. On the return journey I passed the figure of a man receiving medical care. The man was familiar to me because he rides a [...]
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Some wild Spanish fruit (0)
8/10/10 •
We are very lucky is Spain in having a great deal of fruit that grows wild. Strawberries and bananas can be seen in many areas but here are my favourites.
Cooling the dogs (0)
7/20/10 •
Thanks to the presence of many fountains like this one, little dogs can usually cool themselves down in Coín.
Ee aye addio! (0)
7/12/10 •
Well, Spain did it. They won the cup! I know little about football but I do listen to what people say and it seems that the best team won.
El Caminito del Rey (0)
6/01/10 •
This walk along the gorge at El Chorro is probably most famous for having featured in the closing scenes of Von Ryan”s Express starring Frank Sinatra. It is certainly not for those with any sort of a fear of heights. The railway bridge in the picture (above) is the one that the video starts on [...]
Why do they ask? (0)
6/01/10 •
We are all familiar with rhetorical questions and it is likely that most of us recognise one when we hear it and treat it accordingly. Some questions are not even remotely framed as rhetorical and yet, if you try to answer them, you receive no thanks, a sceptical response or simple abuse. Some of these [...]
‘So, it’s official – we do pay more! (0)
6/01/10 •
I think most people living in Spain have always been of the impression that the monopoly-style powers wielded by Telefonica are doing nothing to help bring the prices of services down. I have certainly noticed that every time they tell me that their prices have been reduced, my bill still seems to increase. Now it [...]
It’s a paper chase! (0)
6/01/10 •
A very strange thing is apparent to most people who have to do anything even slightly official in Spain – the enormous, profligate waste of paper! I have been involved in a few minor problems and it has really brought home to me that the systems in Spain are clogged with paper. Even something as easy as [...]
Pets are people too! (0)
5/30/10 •
Pets are people too! Look on the Triple A web site and you will be able to see the above statement and the enormous amount of dedicated work that goes in to rescuing, healing and re-homing some of the thousands of abandoned pets that are found, here, on the Costa del Sol. At any one [...]
¿Habla usted español? (0)
5/29/10 •
One of the things that makes life so much easier in Spain is the ability to put together simple words and phrases in Spanish. For those of you in any form of business, just think what a huge market place is denied to you if you don”t speak even a little Spanish. If you would [...]
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