Monday, November 26th, 2012
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When looking at the world's rising economies, as well as China and India, many experts cite South America as an area to watch. Everyone knows Brazil is on the up, with the World Cup and ...
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
While it's probably too early to be worrying about your bikini body for beach trips, many of us still have "excess baggage" left over from the Christmas, New Year and Reyes round of non-stop eating and drinking.
Having the discipline to cut down on eating unhealthy foods - cakes, biscuits, crisps, ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
If you live here in Spain, you'll be used to seeing Chinese shops in every town. They are stacked high with ridiculously cheap goods, from clothes to toys to garden furniture and household crockery. Much of it is poor quality - I call it "CCC" - cheap crap from China. ...
Posted in Business, Food, gastronomy | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 9th, 2012
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At the end of last year, the Andalucian government named nine new natural monuments, including five in Malaga province. This means that these beauty spots - such as peñas (hills), fuentes, ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
I hope you are all having/have had a wonderful Christmas with your friends and family, full of good cheer, good food and plenty of liquid refreshment (mine was).
Tomorrow is Nochevieja (Old night), New Year's Eve, when Spanish families get together for a big feast, rounded off on the stroke of ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
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Leaving aside the human disasters of Andalucia for today's post, let's look at a fascinating, positive and potentially very exciting story about the region's fauna.
One of the most endangered felines ...
Posted in Nightlife, Our Environment | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Salvados interview with Cayetano Martinez de Irujo.
The Spanish generally enjoy a good relationship with their aristocracy - they tolerate their picadilloes and foibles, discussing them in animated chat shows, poring over them in the prensa rosa, and treating them like a live telenovella (soap opera) created for their own ...
Posted in Current affairs, Economy, Employment, Politics, Royalty/aristocracy | 6 Comments »
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
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Amidst all the uncertainty of this post-election week, with everyone waiting for the new Prime Minister-elect, Mariano Rajoy, to make his pronouncement on how he's planning to ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
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This was the characteristically pragmatic declaration by Spain's new Prime Minister-elect, in his victory speech in Madrid last night.
Mariano Rajoy's Partido Popular romped home to an overwhelming victory in the elections, ...
Posted in Current affairs, Politics | 4 Comments »
