Life in Culebrón

I once shook Desmond Tutu's hand. He didn't really shake mine back -  he was looking the other way and talking to someone over his s...

I've recently been in one of those linguistic slumps where I feel that my Spanish is so deficient that self flagellation seems appropria...

Luis Garcia Berlanga was a Valencian born, Spanish film director who made some 19 films between 1951 and 2002. He was born on 12 June 1921...

I went on a bit of a trip yesterday. The title of the event translates as something like  From the Vinalopó to Exile . Vinalopó is the name ...

There's a shoe museum in Elda. You have to ring a bell to get in. They have some very odd (sic) shoes. Elche has hundreds of shoe fact...

This is a quickish update on the post The Headlong Dash - the one about having to claim the old age pension from the Spanish rather than ...

Spanish websites have improved no end in the time that we have been here. Nowadays it's nearly as easy to find something in Spanish as...

I see that Adele was on at Glastonbury. I don't imagine that a Spanish festival would think to go for that same sort of mix - Enrique ...

When I couldn't get a beer in Tarragona many years ago I decided to learn Spanish. I did a few years of those one or two hour a week S...

Maggie had an appointment in Elda today and naturally enough I got to drive. Elda and Petrer are our local  big town. Some towns are ...

There's a shoe museum in Elda. It's not surprising; shoes were big business along the valley of the Vinalopó. They still are but, as...