Life in Culebrón

I'm late with this. I also wrote it much more quickly than I normally write my blogs so apologies for any failings of style. If you want...

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...

As I abluted this morning - is it a verb? - I listened to the radio as usual. The, apparently intentional, forest fires in Asturias apart ...

It was a  Bank Holiday weekend (of sorts). You could tell this because the day off, the Saturday, was overcast and cool. We went to Valenc...

We live in the province of Alicante. Along with Castellon and Valencia these three provinces make up the Valencian Community. Back in ...

I had a lot of trouble getting a job when I was a young man. One day in the 70s after another disastrous interview I was on the milk tra...

One advantage of the English language is that the word banker has an obvious rhyme. The Spaniards share the sentiment but not the rhyme. ...

Nuclear Power Plants always take me a bit by surprise. I remember the first time I saw the one at Heysham when I was catching the ferry to...