Life in Culebrón

I went to the UK last weekend. I don't go very often but my mum moved, just before Christmas, into a care home and I felt nosey enough, ...

Shortly after moving into a new flat some pals got an email from one of their neighbours. They ran it through Google translate but, even the...

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

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 ...

The dancer's dark eyes flashed. Arching her back she twisted her lithe body so that her brightly coloured dress, tight at the hips but l...

I've never owned or used a dishwasher. I still wash up in the sink and I follow the routine that I read on some poster on the wall of...

Manuela Carmena is the Mayor of Madrid. For most of her career she was a lawyer and then a judge but in 2015 she entered politics with the...

Sleep's a funny thing for we older people. Put me in front of the telly or set me to reading in the garden and I'll soon be snorti...

Do you think there's a cultural element to how we sweep up? Just after the tiniest of earthquakes, yesterday evening, we had a bit o...

It's odd what you stop noticing. Because of her job Maggie talks to lots of people who are new to the area. One of her clients, let...

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 ...

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...

When I lived in the UK I had a lot of credit cards. I made a hobby of moving non existent money between one account and another to try...

I heard something on the radio this morning about a charity, that had been collecting toys for poorer children. The charity had been robb...

I was born in Yorkshire. Summer holidays were short as I remember, a week usually, and our standard destinations were close by - Scarboro...

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 ...

In the last post about Albacete I mentioned an exercise I use with my students as a conversation starter. It's not my piece, I took i...

At work I noticed that a co-worker had not parked her car in her usual spot. The one she has used for the last eight months. I asked why, ...