Life in Culebrón

My sister-in-law is, apparently, learning French. She and my sister, who is learning Russian, were talking about Duolingo, the telephone and...

I've been trying to learn Spanish for ages, long before we got here 17 years ago. In fact I started my first Spanish class in 1983. I...

Sixteen years ago today, on 7 October 2004, I parked up in Santa Pola having travelled the 1,349 miles from Huntingdon behind the wheel of a...

I'm up to three sessions a week now with the online Spanish learning - a bloke in Alicante, another in Manresa in Cataluña and a woma...

When Spaniards talk about electricity, in the house, they talk about light or at least they use the word whose principal English/Spanish d...

One Friday, ages ago, at the monthly few minutes of silence organised by the Plataforma El Pinós contra la violència de gènere  I got talk...

I heard a news item that said that someone had died. The name sounded, on first hearing, to be Mujica but in fact it was Múgica. The first...

Chinese buffets are an example. The first time you go to one it's all a bit confusing. The second time, less so, and by the third time...

I think it would be true to say that the majority of Britons who settle in Spain intend to learn Spanish. The general view seems to be tha...

Just outside our kitchen door the sun is shining. In fact Culebrón is bathed in glorious sunshine, as it has been for days, but it's j...

I went to a little bilingual talk last night about the history of the nearby village of La Romana. It wasn't at all bad. The local exp...

On Friday afternoons, in Cartagena, Maggie and I used to go to a Spanish language group organised by one of the local language schools. We...

I don't have any work between the end of June and the beginning of September. No pay either so it's not quite as good as it sounds...

I've been doing a Spanish class recently. Not that I expect it to make me any more understood in the street. I just feel I have a resp...