Life in Culebrón

When I went to the hole in the wall to get some cash there was a turrón stall in my way. Turrón is a sweet confectionery, associated with th...

Besides perfume and cars there are multiple adverts on Spanish telly for food. Particularly for fast food or franchised food chains - Foster...

Spain is, in essence, like the rest of Western Europe. Lots of freedoms, well organised and safe. That doesn't mean it's hard to fin...

We had a couple of pals who moved from Pinoso to the coast. One of the reasons they gave for their move was that the food in Pinoso was a bi...

I bought some porridge oats the other day. The supermarket ones were missing from the shelf so I shelled out double the price for some brand...

I have a friend who's been vegetarian for as long as I've known her and that's nearly 50 years. Back in the 1970s she said that ...

One of my early blog entries was about Spam . I was probably suffering withdrawal symptoms and I'd just discovered the delights of mor...

People, in general, seem to be very interested in food. Spaniards certainly are. I think I've said before that the first time I ever man...

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 ...

What goes into a paella is a bit of a moot point. Valencian paella usually contains white rice, meat (usually chicken or rabbit) garrofó (...

Patricia and Jason have just opened a new Bed and Breakfast business here in Culebrón - the Sunny Vista Casa Rural . They've done a re...

This morning Spanish radio was quoting from an article in the Times. The original impetus for the Times story came from a scientific paper...

Egg and chips is a typical Spanish dish. Egg and chips is a typical English dish too. I wouldn't be surprised if half the world has a ...

There are fifty provinces in Spain and two autonomous cities on the North African coast. Then there are the islands. Each province and all...

It's been a funny old day. I was expecting music in the streets and a bit of exploration near Caravaca de la Cruz in Murcia but the we...

I'm not much of a cook though I can usually produce something that is, at least, edible. That's not always the case; new recipes ...

The first time I ever caught the sense of a conversation going on around me in Spanish was on a bus in Granada. I'd always thought tha...

For years I didn't own a power drill. I made do with a little hand held job, in fact I often said that I preferred the manual ones. ...

Thirty one years ago, in the Bar Lennon in Valencia, the barman turned out to be the chatty type. Having to talk in a mixture of mime, tort...

Mossets is, apparently, the Valencian language equivalent of tapa, or, in the plural, tapas. I presume that you know about tapas, it's...