Life in Culebrón

I saw something about the fiestas in Cañadas de Don Ciro this last weekend. Now Don Ciro really is no more than a wide spot on a very rural ...

I remember when we made the decision to move to Spain. It wasn't because there were people with guns in the street, not a sign of rel...

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...

Spain is full of fiestas. Fiesta is an idea that we foreigners living here begin to get a glimmer of but which most of us never quite unders...

You may have seen my snaps of blokes in bicorne hats shooting off arquebuses (old fashioned musket type rifles) in the streets of Yecla. I...

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...

My brother went to see a bullfight in Alicante. He seemed quite surprised that it was bloody - I wondered what he'd expected. Personal...

When I turned up for work this morning there was nobody there. The school was closed. Nobody bothered to tell me but it gave me the surpri...

Last Saturday we joined some people from the language exchange group to go on the tapas trail. One of the participants was a bloke from Su...

Spanish websites have improved no end in the time that we have been here. Nowadays it's nearly as easy to find something in Spanish as...

Spain is in full fiesta season. Our local town, Pinoso, has just finished its fiestas or, more accurately, is about to finish in a couple ...

I'm sorry but I've been reading again. La familia de Pascual Duarte this time. In it, at one point, the "hero" of the bo...

Culebrón is one of the satellite villages of the nearby town of Pinoso. Culebrón is an unusual name for a village. Usually the word Cule...

Every year, in Pinoso, we have fiestas the first days of August - a mixture of events, a funfair, stalls, parades, taunting young bulloc...

I read something, in an electronic newspaper, yesterday that said that our President, Mariano Rajoy, isn't a big reader. It went on ...

There is a district of Pinoso called Santa Catalina and today is Santa Catalina's day, Well it's today if you use the Byzantine ca...

We live in the province of Alicante. Along with Castellon and Valencia these three provinces make up the Valencian Community. Back in ...

The sound and picture quality were surprisingly good. Apparently it was a kosher copy of the film so that may explain it. Amazingly, despi...

I had some WhatsApp messages from the village mayoress. 9th June: If you fancy enjoying the change of season come to the summer cinema i...

I'm cool with a romería and with Elena gone on to her birthday party it was up to me to save the vermouth session. Last night we had t...