Life in Culebrón

We were in a restaurant last week. The food was reasonable enough as was the price. At first the service was good but, despite repeated effo...

Eating is a bit of a thing in Spain. Not a bit of a thing like it is in South Sudan, not in the sense of needing to eat to avoid dying, but ...

Last week we went on holiday. We stopped off at a couple of places but our destination was Finisterre, the End of the Earth, in Galicia. Whe...

It's nice to think that people remember me from time to time. This week two old friends sent me the same article they'd both seen ...

We were going to try out the new Indian restaurant in Pinoso yesterday lunchtime. Maggie works till three and getting lunch around that ti...

I have been trying to think of a post for a few days and I couldn't. The rest is just space filler. My bosses at work asked me if I ...

I'm not a big Google+ user. The other day I came across something called Communities, which seem to be collections of items around ...

Very occasionally I write a piece for the blog which forms a part of the Country Fincas website. Country Fincas is the estate agent that ...

When I first started the  blog it was simple. The idea was to celebrate, or at least note, the diffferences between what I'd always co...

I once worked with someone who was keen on illicit drugs. He came from Huddersfield but we were working near Newcastle and he was having ...

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...

We once asked Eduardo if he would sell us a beer. He has a restaurant in the village. He was there, the door was open and the sun was ...

I think it was John who told us there was a nice new bar in La Romana so, as we were passing, we dropped in for a coffee. He was right. Lo...

I talked to my mum on the phone today. She asked me how my birthday had gone on Wednesday. She apologised for only having sent a card and ...

Every now and again I write an email to someone. This is like writing a letter in the olden days. Personal communication. Facebook message...

Facilities in Culebrón include a post box, a social centre and a dusty basketball cum football area. Business wise we have the bodega and ...

I was going to say that we had a famous restaurant in Pinoso then I thought about it. Obama is famous and Shakira too but I don't thin...

We were probably as guilty as anyone. We wanted the Real Spain. That's the one where dark skinned men ride donkeys and raven haired se...

Quite a strange experience today. We went for a meal. The odd thing was that it was in somebody's living room. A chap and his wife, wh...

We've just been to the opening of a new bar - or, more likely, a bar restaurant - in Culebrón. It's the same bar we went in wh...