Life in Culebrón

Around here grapes are grown for eating and for making wine.  Pinoso is a bit too high and a bit too cold, to grow eating grapes, but just d...

This last weekend we popped over to Murcia to see las Cuadrillas in Barranda. The event is principally a folk music event with bands on ever...

I'm not such a big fan of wine. It's not that I don't drink it but I'd nearly always go for other sorts of booze first. Magg...

We were in Jumilla today for a while. Jumilla is a town just over the border into Murcia. They have "always" produced wine in Ju...

I get pulled over fairly frequently by the police, usuallly the Guardia Civil. Normally it takes seconds - they see I'm wearing my sea...

Traditionally the first words of a seaside landlady to this week's guests are that they should have been there last week when the weat...

Yesterday it was rock bands (do they still call them that?) and today it was a brass quartet in the wine cellars of one local wineries; Bode...

My old school pal, Bob Filby, commented on the entry I did about our visit to a local bodega. His comment was that there is a much held beli...

We've always been big supporters of the Spanish wine industry. Maggie maybe a little more so than me. I worry more about the brandy busi...