Life in Culebrón

Anís is an aniseed flavoured alcoholic drink - it's the Spanish equivalent of French pastis, Greek ouzo, Italian sambuca or Turkish raki...

My bank sent me a letter, well there was a message on the website, to say that I should ensure that they held the correct details on me. A...

I remember sport, things sporting, at school with a mix of horror and shame. Rugby was shivering on frost hardened mud with my hands dow...

The first ever Spanish language course I took leaned heavily on the BBC course Digame. The Digame book and cassettes or records were backe...

I've mentioned Azorín, the writer born in Monóvar a few kilometres from Pinoso, before. There's a lot going on about him because i...

Just down the road from us, about 5kms away, is a small village called Hondon. In May 1938 a group of Republican soldiers turned up in t...