Monday, April 30th, 2012
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GUEST POST: REBEKAH THOMPSON
Living in on the Costa del Sol it has become very easy to take my surroundings for granted; I live just a bus ride away from some of the most famous ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Over the years, many hundreds of movies have been shot in Andalucia, due to the extraordinary variety of its landscapes - mountains, deserts, beaches; its magnificent cities, with beautifully preserved period buildings; and its reliable sunshine.
Think of the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s and 1970s, shot in Almeria; Hollywood blockbuster ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
[caption id="attachment_3774" align="aligncenter" width="578" caption="Plaza de España, magically transformed into a Middle Eastern dictator's palace, complete with gold domes, and logo on gates and statues. The plinth, which covers the fountain, will hold a statue of the dictator to be pulled down, a la Hussein. You can see them filming ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
So, the next stage of the anti-smoking legislation , which first started back in 2006, will arrive at the start of next year. As from 2 January 2011, you will no longer be able to smoke in "enclosed public places", in other words bars, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs; but it also ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
At long last, Plaza de España has reopened, after its lifting, one of those English words adopted and comically misused by the Spanish (more often used in the plastic surgery sense, as in actresses aged over 40 who don't mind looking as if their face is covered in clingfilm).
One ...
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