FOR many English speakers, the very first thing they learn how to do after landing in Spain is to order a beer. While ‘una cerveza, por favor’ is certainly a good start, anyone who spends time beyond a brief holiday on the costas will know the issue is a lot more complicated than it first […]
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SUMMER may still be in full swing, but in the north of Spain, Christmas has already arrived. The festivities have started early in Vigo in Galicia after the city began to string up its Christmas lights on Tuesday. Mayor Abel Caballero said that they were committed to having the ‘best Christmas in the world’ as
AS the weather heats up across Spain, Pedro Sanchez is planning his summer vacation. The prime minister will be staying at a luxury resort in Lanzarote after he finishes up his meetings with the King in Mallorca. The Sanchez family has spent almost every single summer and Christmas on the Spanish island. Continuing yet another
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CREATORS of the world’s first cave art may in fact have been Neanderthals and not early man, researchers have concluded after studying pigments found on stalagmites in a cave in southern Spain. The findings overturn long-held beliefs that our cousin species, which became extinct around 40,000 years ago, were unsophisticated. Instead it suggests that they
AT EVERY Olympic Games over the last three decades, race walker Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado has represented Spain, hip-wiggling over 50kms while never breaking into a run. But on Friday, at the grand old age of 51 years old, after finishing 35th in the 50km race walk in Sapporo, he admitted it would be his
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NEW data reveals the huge differences in cost of living across Spain, with Madrid and Barcelona proving a whopping 30% more than in the cheapest urban community. A new report from the Bank of Spain that compares average salaries with rental prices, services and goods in each urban community revealed just how much more expensive
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MARITIME Rescue services in Cadiz have had to assist three different boats in three different incidents off the Barbate coast in Cadiz after a pod of killer whales damaged the vessels. The incidents took place last Wednesday, August 4, when three separate orca encounters with boats off the coast of Spain, saw three boats damaged.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a large cache of Roman weapons and tools in the protohistoric settlement of Son Catlar, Menorca. A statement released by the University of Alicante, who were carrying out the dig, revealed that the cache held Roman ‘weapons, knives, three arrowheads, spearheads, projectiles, surgical tools, a bronze spatula probe, and so on’. Some
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ALMOST 400,000 rapid self-testing COVID-19 kits were bought across Spain during the first week that they were made available to the public. A total of 386,155 COVID antigen tests were sold during the week of July 19 to 25, the first in which they were available without a prescription. According to data from the consulting
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BARCELONA City Council has become the first council in Spain to impose a penalty for ‘real estate racism’. City bosses fined a real estate agency and landlord €45,000 for refusing to rent the property to a man from Morocco. Refusing to rent property to anyone based on their race has been illegal since the start
