I have written a lot recently about food: the Mediterranean Lifestyle, Eating Habits In Spain, and a number of Restaurant Reviews ranging from Menú del Día’s to a Festival Of Octopus.
One reason for this is that Sands and I have been trying to settle on a balanced and healthy diet and lifestyle that reflects the [...]
Mediterranean Lifestyle
March 9th, 2010Are We Too Insular?
February 12th, 2010I had reason to go to Mojacar recently. I know, all the way up to Mojacar. That is a whole day trip, pack some sandwiches, take a thermos of tea, heck maybe even look into a hotel to break the journey. I know all this to be true, because when I was up there I [...]
Mediterranean Men Living At Home For Longer
December 11th, 2009I have always been intrigued by the fact that compared to the UK the typical Spanish male lives at home with Mum for a lot longer. Locally here in Almerimar I know many that do this, but that have bought properties that they either rent out, or don’t worry about as they don’t pay rent [...]
Monday Morning Energy
April 21st, 2008Or not! I was determined to get to the gym this morning having been only once last week, partly due to having my Mum to stay. I have to say though that when I left the house at 9.20am in another minor gale, I wasn’t really up for it! Once again I went to another [...]
Living In Spain – How Long To Settle?
February 28th, 2008I am happy living here in Almerimar ‘most of the time’, but there ARE definitely things I miss and even now after being based here for close to 5 years I am not sure if I could yet say this is where I will always be. I know Chris has no regrets about leaving England [...]
Hibernating
February 25th, 2008Isn’t it weird how, when you are so used to sunshine, a lack of it makes it hard to get out of bed? Today has started off wet and dull, and I have to own up to spending half the morning drinking tea, and watching highlights of the Oscars on Sky News! Of course it [...]
Our View
February 9th, 2008I have been meaning to sort out a Panaramic view from our balcony for some time now and I have finally got round to it! Now unfortunately the problem with such a picture is that in order to see it on the blog I have to reduce the size so much that it isn’t really [...]
UK Satellite TV in Spain
February 6th, 2008This article is not meant to encourage take up of UK satellite TV services in Spain. It is made available purely to provide information about this issue.
The largest UK provider of satellite TV services is not licenced to provide services to customers in Spain. Therefore it is illegal for them to provide these services.
There are [...]
The Almerian Alpujarra
February 5th, 2008To see more pictures of the Almerian Alpujarra please visit our Flickr account.
John and Jacqui have recently visited the Almerian Alpujarra. This is what they thought of it:
We tried to follow Route 1 from the Touristic Map of Almeria that we picked up from the Tourist Office near Copo. However, we started and finished the [...]
Pet Passports
January 30th, 2008An article I read today should be interesting reading for anyone hoping to take their pets abroad; the pet passports scheme is based on the requirement for each animal to be chipped for identification, enabling relevant data on vaccinations to be verified.
Each of our 2 cats has been microchipped more in case they got [...]
Tipping In Spain
January 22nd, 2008I was reading a funny article about characteristics of the Spanish, and along with the comment that Spaniards will only eat bananas that come from the Canary Islands, I found a useful tip about ‘tipping’.
Apparently Spanish people almost never tip on a Menu del Día.
“There is no need to tip if you have the set, [...]
Spanish Holiday Homes
January 16th, 2008It seems as if the credit crunch in the UK is definitely beginning to bite. I was reading a new property article this morning about the market in the UK, and included was some news on property sales in Spain. This came via one of the big UK house builders who have a mainland Spanish [...]
Moving To Spain?
January 15th, 2008I read a recent article which was one of those New Year themed ones talking about shaking things up and maybe doing something that you had dreamt about for a long time. Apparently “more than half of Britons aged 35 or over want to travel more or work abroad”, which doesn’t mean they want to [...]
A Day In The Life Of – 2 Weeks
January 14th, 2008Well already it’s 2 weeks into the New Year, so it feels like a good time to review my ’sort of’ resolutions. Actually I didn’t make anything too specific but I have a number of things that I really want to focus on this year. The big one is Almerimar Life, as I have been [...]
Horrid Day
January 14th, 2008Just noticed that my last Personal Journal entry was saying what a ‘beautiful day’ it was and quite frankly today has been foul! Very wet and windy most of the day and consequently quite cold. All I can say is that it is very rare here in Almerimar and happens mainly in January and February. [...]
The British as Linguists
January 12th, 2008Ok so what I should really be saying is the British NOT as linguists. because apparently we are the world’s worst, AND, based on all the people in my acquaintance, I can’t argue with this.
“It has generally been accepted, during this century, that the world’s worst linguists are the English, closely [...]
