Life in Culebrón

Summer is an interesting time in Spain. When the sun shines the country slows. In August the country treads water. It's not as true as i...

Everyone knows that Germans don't have a sense of humour. Everyone knows that people from the United States are fat, that Jamaicans have...

Easter Week, Semana Santa, is huge in Spain. After all Easter is at the very heart of the Christianity and lots of Spanish events are still ...

In Spanish shopping centres, like everywhere else, the fronts of shops are, often, open. The idea is obvious enough. The shops want to make ...

I'm sure you've heard my theory before that you don't learn popular culture; if you're born somewhere then the culture is yo...

For this post to work you're going to have to pretend that lots of generalisations are true. For instance that a man and a woman living ...

I was in a bar this morning. The bar is called Arturo but the boss isn't; his name is Salvador or Salva to his friends. Arturo is a ...

There's a strangeness about being home and yet being a foreigner. Last week I asked the lad who served me coffee how his birthday ce...

I still look at various expat forums every now and then. On one of the forums, the administrators try to rouse the troops a little with so...

There's a certain tendency to euphoria sometimes. It would happen from time to time driving across the fens or maybe with the MGB in t...

Going into a bank in Spain is often the proverbial pain in whatchamacallit. I don't have to do it often. Cash comes from holes in the ...

I spoke to my mum on the phone today. She said that she'd had a good Christmas and New Year but that she was glad to be back to norma...

There's an advert on the telly at the moment for el Corte Inglés, the big Spanish department store, which uses lots of Christmassy ima...

I went last night, as I often do, to the Monday evening intercambio session at the Coliseum bar in Pinoso. The idea is simple enough, an ...

I went to have a quick look at the tanganilla competition in Culebrón this morning as part of the weekend long fiesta. Tanganilla, I thin...

We've been to see a few Easter parades these last few days. When I was a schoolboy Mr Kemp and Mr Edwards, my Junior and Secondary sch...

We went into Pinoso on Wednesday to see the Procession of the imprisoned Jesus. He was escorted by the Roman Century and two of the be-h...