Life in Culebrón

This is the third in the series about the boring things I do each week, or at least regularly, with my attempt to write in a Spanish angle. ...

We have an aljibe in our house. An aljibe is a sort of water cistern. Ours is about two metres deep so I suppose it's capacity is a bit ...

I try to be frugal with toilet paper. One sheet at a time if possible. It's not because I'm particularly mean, it's because toil...

Artemio is a heavy set bloke who works for Pinoso Town Hall. Usually he has a big cigar clamped between his teeth. I'd prefer not to c...

When I was a schoolboy I was told how the Vikings, the Saxons and the Normans were responsible for lots of English place names; things lik...

I mentioned a few posts ago that it hasn't rained a lot recently around here. Whenever if does rain someone always says -"Well, ...

A few years ago I used to take photos of houses and write the descriptions for an estate agency here in Spain. Often, if it were a house i...

The stories of huge water bills in Spain are legion. Not for the cost of the water, which is usually very reasonable, but for undiscovered...

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...

When I put the clocks back later tonight I'm going to retune the telly. The way the frequencies are divided up between mobile phone ...

Spain has the highest number of reservoirs per inhabitant in the world. At least that's what it says on Wikipedia. I am always wary of...