Life in Culebrón

One of my early blog entries was about Spam . I was probably suffering withdrawal symptoms and I'd just discovered the delights of mor...

I maintain an impression that our bit of rural Spain is still quite traditional; a society that repairs things. Just check the roads at th...

People, in general, seem to be very interested in food. Spaniards certainly are. I think I've said before that the first time I ever man...

It's nice to think that people remember me from time to time. This week two old friends sent me the same article they'd both seen ...

Patricia and Jason have just opened a new Bed and Breakfast business here in Culebrón - the Sunny Vista Casa Rural . They've done a re...

There aren't many self serve checkouts in Spain. They have them at Ikea, the scan your goods, push in your credit card type and they h...

I have been trying to think of a post for a few days and I couldn't. The rest is just space filler. My bosses at work asked me if I ...

Egg and chips is a typical Spanish dish. Egg and chips is a typical English dish too. I wouldn't be surprised if half the world has a ...

My mum doesn't use a lot of milk. The last time I stayed with her the milk she had in was off - very off, lumpy off. She shamelessly o...

I've talked about Spanish supermarkets before. Just as a quick recap. We have four decent sized supermarkets in Pinoso and I use them ...

The first time I ever caught the sense of a conversation going on around me in Spanish was on a bus in Granada. I'd always thought tha...

For years I didn't own a power drill. I made do with a little hand held job, in fact I often said that I preferred the manual ones. ...

Very occasionally I write a piece for the blog which forms a part of the Country Fincas website. Country Fincas is the estate agent that ...

One of my theories about Spanish food is that lots of the famous stuff is peasant food, made with cheap, locally available ingredients. T...

It was a  Bank Holiday weekend (of sorts). You could tell this because the day off, the Saturday, was overcast and cool. We went to Valenc...