Life in Culebrón

There are a lot of flies in Culebrón. There are also plenty of wasps. The most common type in Culebrón don't seem to be quite like th...

I have pals who are very knowledgeable about birds. Those same people are likely to know about plants and trees too. If I know a few birds...

There are lots of things that I've done in my life which I regret. Some are big things, which I'm not going to tell you about, and...

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...

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've read a few books by a Spanish author called Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867 -1928). A couple of the books were about life in Valencia...

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...

It's not a complex idea. When I was a lad braziers were the natural complement to those little striped tents that workmen used to set ...

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...

I may well be wrong. I haven't checked last year's programme against this. Nonetheless it seems to me that the Pinoso Fair and Fie...

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...