Life in Culebrón

There are lot of strange fiestas in Spain. Every now and then I'll see some article or read a report about this or that event where ever...

I always say that it's a part of my cultural education to get out and about in Spain a bit. Getting out and about has several levels. If...

In the 1970s I wore cheesecloth shirts and loons. I don't now. Looking back I shouldn't have then. In the film Beau Brummel, the one...

I'm sure you've heard my theory before that you don't learn popular culture; if you're born somewhere then the culture is yo...

We've just had a bit of a debate about where we were going to go this evening. The wine harvest fiesta in Jumilla is in full swing a...

Spain is full of fiestas. Fiesta is an idea that we foreigners living here begin to get a glimmer of but which most of us never quite unders...

You may have seen my snaps of blokes in bicorne hats shooting off arquebuses (old fashioned musket type rifles) in the streets of Yecla. I...

My brother went to see a bullfight in Alicante. He seemed quite surprised that it was bloody - I wondered what he'd expected. Personal...

I bought a book, second hand, from the Spanish Amazon site. The book is in Spanish but it was sold by a bookseller in the US, I think. It...

I'm watching a fly trapped between the mosquitera, the fly screen, and the glass of the windows. It must have walked in but now it se...

When I turned up for work this morning there was nobody there. The school was closed. Nobody bothered to tell me but it gave me the surpri...

We've been to see a few Easter parades these last few days. When I was a schoolboy Mr Kemp and Mr Edwards, my Junior and Secondary sch...

There's not much on Spanish telly on Friday night and so Maggie, who is much more telly aware than I am, often turns over to Gogglebox...

Nothing much to write. It's October, you may well have noticed, and the weather is a bit changeable. The usual weather pattern here i...