Life in Culebrón

Just after lunch a convoy of three tractors passed our front gate. They had the folding umbrella type contraptions on the back that are used...

Maggie often comes home and tells me about a house that she's shown or a new house on the books of the estate agency she works for. ...

There are all sizes of tractors. Probably the most common around here are really old, really beaten up and quite small tractors. Think of ...

There was an advert when we went to the cinema this afternoon for Coca Cola. It is about the people responsible for the success of Coke in...

Every now and then I get an email from Abraza la tierra, Embrace the Land. It's usually a business opportunity or a job in some rura...

There was nothing on at the cinema. We often go on Wednesday, its the cheap day, just 4.20€. I'd have gone to see a Spanish film but M...

Our visitors often ask us about snakes. We set their minds at rest. A few ask about scorpions and dangerous spiders. We reassure them abou...

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....

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...

Coming in to Huntingdon, past Samuel Pepys place, alongside Hinchingbrooke I was amazed by the number of bunnies hopping around. Millions ...

I painted the front door last week. I did an awful job; all runs and dead flies. Maggie and I agreed that it looked better than before t...

It was quite early, maybe around eight in the morning, but the newsagent in Chatteris was open. I was on my way to some absolutely essenti...

Now I've told you about our palm tree  several times. When the tree man failed to turn up last time I did the beetle slaughteri...

I'm back in Culebrón for the weekend. Before I left La Unión I checked the State Weather Service to see whether I would need a wooly o...

I'm not much of a dancer. I don't care for it anyway but then I hurt my hip dancing in 1973 so there was a bit of a hiatus till I ...

I'm that sort of age.The heart attack, the stroke. Despite our best efforts an exploding gas bottle could leave one or both of us blee...

All over Spain, at the side of the road, there are places called ventas. From the outside they just look like restaurants or bars but, as...

We went to see our pal Pepa this weekend. She has a Casa Rural up in Teruel in a place called Fuentes de Rubielos. I never quite k...

There's an advert on the telly at the moment. The premise of the ad is that, during the summer, everyone abandons the cities and head...