Life in Culebrón

Last Saturday evening, we went over to Yecla to see a pre-selection concert for the Cante de las Minas flamenco competition which takes plac...

Monte Arabí is a natural park, about 20 kms out of Yecla, almost into Castilla la Mancha. It has some nice looking, rounded and very young, ...

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...

Last year we couldn't go to Yecla, to the Jazz Festival. We went to St Petersburg instead. Tough call - eighth largest town in Murcia ...

You may have seen my snaps of blokes in bicorne hats shooting off arquebuses (old fashioned musket type rifles) in the streets of Yecla. I...

I keep a database of the films I've seen. For complicated and boring reasons one database ran from 1986 to 2009 and a second one from ...

I think that we do pretty well at getting out and about. In fact the last few days have been a bit of a culture fest. Just tonight w...

Maggie likes wine. It's no secret. She likes a good Rioja and she likes Ribera del Duero too. But Maggie thinks it's very unfair t...

Yecla, a small town very close to us here in Culebrón, has a national reputation for furniture making. Every year they have a furniture trad...

I usually start most phrases in Spanish with a mistake. It comes from my insecurity about speaking. This, as often as not, is the cue for an...