Life in Culebrón

Ten years ago I saw the Pet Shop Boys at the old SOS 4.8 Festival in Murcia. I expected them to be terrible but they were just the opposite....

Have you seen those geode things at the craft markets? They look a lot like a pebble on the outside but inside they're (sort of) hollo...

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...

El Jardin de la Seda. The Silk Garden, is an unremarkable public green space in Murcia. It has quite a lot of standard model ducks and som...

Years ago we very nearly bought a house in the Murcian town of Caravaca de la Cruz. It was a new flat and it looked nice. The last time I ...

One of the problems with things starting late is that one never knows how late. Last night, well earlier today too, we went to see the fin...

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...

Now that I work in Cieza my route to work has changed. It's about about 60 kms each way and the journey time - that is the time fro...

Pinoso doesn't have traffic lights and parking is free. In Culebrón we don't have much tarmac let alone street names. Yeste...

Culebrón is a part of Pinoso. Pinoso is a part of the province of Alicante but Pinoso, like Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana, is a frontier town....

Murcia City has changed a lot over the years. It feels citylike now - it hustles and bustles. The first time I went there I thought it was...

I was thinking, as I drove between La Unión and Culebrón, about what I could see out of the car. I decided it was family and friends. You ...