Life in Culebrón

It's election time in Spain. The local and European elections were on the cards, programmed in on the calendar for May from long ago, ...

Rather surprisingly, considering the recent history of Spain, we don't have a General Election on the horizon. Of course that's ...

As I type I'm listening to the radio. They are voting for the investiture of the President of the Spanish Government.  The man who...

It's pretty hot. Yesterday I went to Villena to have a look at the Moors and Christians parade. The parade started at 4pm and, accor...

General election today in Spain. I'm sure you know. The fact that polling day is Sunday here and Thursday in the UK piqued my interest...

I think I mentioned that I was "voted" onto the committee of the Neighbourhood Association last November. Nothing serious, no wo...

As I abluted this morning - is it a verb? - I listened to the radio as usual. The, apparently intentional, forest fires in Asturias apart ...

I've described this process somewhere else, in the past, but as it doesn't happen very often even my most trusty reader may have f...

It stopped being cold in our house a few weeks ago now. I forget quite when but suddenly we weren't using the gas heaters, I started...

It must have been the 1964 general election. I walked on to the Town Hall Square in Elland to see Harold Macmillan speak. I would have bee...

I don't think that I have ever missed an opportunity to vote in local, regional or national elections since I turned 18. They've a...

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

Regular readers (as if!) will remember that the Socialists, who currently control the National Government, got a drubbing in the recent lo...

Following the elections of 22 May today was the day for the new council to start its term of office in Pinoso. I went to the Town Hall to wa...

It's election time in Spain. On 22 May we have the local and regional elections. The campaign period proper started as Thursday became F...