Life in Culebrón

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...

In the run up to Christmas we bought a couple of coca from the women running the Caritas stall outside the Parish Rooms in Pinoso. The coca ...

Last week we went on holiday. We stopped off at a couple of places but our destination was Finisterre, the End of the Earth, in Galicia. Whe...

I maintain an impression that our bit of rural Spain is still quite traditional; a society that repairs things. Just check the roads at th...

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...

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...

One of my theories about Spanish food is that lots of the famous stuff is peasant food, made with cheap, locally available ingredients. T...

Murcia City has changed a lot over the years. It feels citylike now - it hustles and bustles. The first time I went there I thought it was...

I think it was John who told us there was a nice new bar in La Romana so, as we were passing, we dropped in for a coffee. He was right. Lo...

Turrón is made from almonds, honey, egg whites and sugar. It's an Alicante speciality which is now produced all over Spain. Turrón, has ...