Life in Culebrón

A couple of weekends ago, we went to the Low Festival in Benidorm. Maggie, my partner, knows that I like festivals. She doesn't. She doe...

I was a bit worried about Spanish music when we first got here. I was worried that I didn't know any. I suspected that "Viva España...

We went to see the Bob Dylan concert in Alicante yesterday. I'm not a big fan but I have to accept that the man's a living legend, a...

Yesterday I went to see the 32nd Encuentro de Cuadrillas in Patiño, an area of Murcia City. Cuadrillas are musical groups made up of betwe...

Last year we couldn't go to Yecla, to the Jazz Festival. We went to St Petersburg instead. Tough call - eighth largest town in Murcia ...

One of the things I've realised about being old is that my reference points are different to those of younger people. I know that very...

We've been to a few music festivals here in Spain - pop festivals, mainly indie bands - generally pretty close to home. I did invest...

A Scottish pal who lives here in Pinoso commented on one of my photos the other day. He said something along the lines that he was beginni...

I was just on the phone to my mum. She told me her news. And what have you been up to she asked. Nothing much I said, a bit of gardening, a ...

I see that Adele was on at Glastonbury. I don't imagine that a Spanish festival would think to go for that same sort of mix - Enrique ...

Normally, when I go to the theatre or somesuch I put the photos on Picasa or Facebook and that's it but I just have to tell you abou...

The building is an old Victorian indoor market - all cast iron columns and glass ceiling. The air conditioning was going full blast produc...

I like listening to the radio. Getting your news from the radio obviously has it's disadvantages (no pictures) but radio does have the...

"Good evening, sir," said the Guardia Civil, "Alcohol test." Thus saying he passed me a mouthpiece sealed in cellophan...

There has been lots of press speculation about the King recently. A while ago he had some surgery. The doctors said they had removed a benig...