July 2021

Big 30% fall in COVID-19 cases in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

COVID-19 infections have dropped by nearly a third in the Valencian Community, as this week’s trend of falling case numbers continues. The regional health ministry today(July 30) announced 1,977 new coronavirus cases. A week ago, the figure was 2,913 infections. The same downward ratio applies in comparison to yesterday’s total , when 2,968 cases were […]

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Hotel bookings are higher than pre-pandemic levels in scenic part of the Costa Blanca in Spain

A scenic stretch of the Costa Blanca says hotel bookings are better than the pre-pandemic summer of 2019. Teulada-Moraira council says that July’s hotel occupancy figures were 65.68%, a three point rise on the same month two years ago. Even into four months of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the area notched up a respectable

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Following in Federico Lorca’s footsteps in Granada’s Alpujarra

POET Federico García Lorca was murdered on August 18, 1936, during the first stages of the Spanish Civil War. He became a martyr and a legend. The most translated poet in the Spanish language, his work is venerated wherever it is read. However, there are still aspects of his life that are not very well-known.

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Stratospheric: How Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences put the city on Spain’s design map

IT was one event not to be missed. The Cure playing a free concert at the not-long finished City of Arts and Sciences. It was March, 2008, and well worth the drive up from Malaga to see one of my favourite British bands fill up a section of one of Europe’s most expensive architectural masterpieces.

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Teenager suffers cardiac arrest after fleeing police enforcing a night curfew in Costa Blanca area of Spain

A teenage girl had a cardiac arrest after police chased her off a Denia beach for breaking the night-time curfew law. The 15-year-old collapsed at the entrance to an urbanisation. She was revived and taken to hospital. The incident took place this morning(July 30) when officers on a Denia Policia Local beach buggy spotted a

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Pilgrims become litter pickers as they walk in bid to clean up Spain’s Camino de Santiago

PILGRIMS walking the Camino de Santiago are being asked to do more than just purify their souls, but to take on another form of cleansing altogether. Walkers are being asked to lend a hand in a bid to rid the most popular pilgrimage route in Europe of litter. The detritus left behind by the thousands

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Sniffer dog tries to find poisoned food aimed at killing pets on a Costa Blanca canine beach in Spain

A specialist dog has been trying to sniff out poison deliberately left on a Costa Blanca canine beach. The beach is at El Campello where the Rio Monnegre enters the sea. Four dog owners have complained that their pets have been poisoned by eating discarded food. The Guardia Civil’s environment unit, Seprona, have combed the

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Criminal gang caught red-handed smuggling 15 tonnes of drugs into Spain on boat named ‘SEEFUCHS’

EIGHT members of an organised criminal gang were arrested after their boat, SEEFUCHS, was boarded 100 miles off the Spanish coast. Five drug smugglers were arrested with 15 tonnes of hashish en route from Morocco. SEIZED: Some of the 15,000 kilos of hashish from Morocco Three more were arrested and €60,000 in cash was seized

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Benidorm man records sex video on Spain’s Costa Blanca and posts it on WhatsApp without woman knowing

A Benidorm man has been arrested for distributing a video on WhatsApp of him having sex with a woman he met at a night club. The victim went to the Policia Nacional to report the 29-year-old man’s breach of trust. They hooked up on July 8 and decided to spend the night at his home.

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