November 2021

THE steady rise in infections in Spain’s Andalucia is promoting a special meeting of the regional committee of experts. Andalucian Health Minister Jesus Aguirre said at a press conference in Cordoba on Sunday, November, 14 that “next week or the next” a meeting of the committee of experts will take place to evaluate the “upward” evolution of […]

SPAIN’S far-right Vox political party has proposed a bill to the Spanish Congress that would see citizenship through residency take 15 years instead of the current ten years. The proposed bill is targeted at North African migrants and the far-right party are attempting to make the process of acquiring Spanish nationality more difficult. If successfully passed, the

PORTUGUESE Prime Minister Antonio Costa has said that it is “a dream” of his to be able to unite the regions of the Algarve, in Portugal, and Andalucia, in Spain, through a new railway connection. An Andalucia-Algarve rail connection has been a dream of the Portuguese PM for some time and “one day” he hopes

IT’S a point of contention when millions of Christmas decorations shine and glitter across Europe every holiday season – which city has the greatest light display of them all? A list on a reputable travel website has tried to bring an end to the conflict – naming the festive market and lights in Malaga as

STUDENTS of UK expats or Spanish-expat hybrids have long been faced with a significant challenge when taking the leap from the Spanish Baccalaureate to the UK university system. Bombarded with reams of stodgy material to learn verbatim for the final school exams, 18-year-olds in the Spanish education system emerge from the experience with the ability

A BRITISH expat in Spain has found himself in a pickle after phone calls to a greengrocer started to get rerouted to his home phone. Charlie Bamber in Rincon de la Victoria (Malaga) has been getting up to 15 calls a month from people trying to place orders at organic fruit and veg shop Bioshop

SNOW has fallen across large parts of Spain as ski resorts prepare to open their facilities at the end of November. On Wednesday, November 10, temperatures were between 4 and 7 degrees below normal in most of the Cantabrian Sea and the interior of the peninsula. This led to snowfalls in the mountainous areas in the

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THE city of Almeria in Spain’s Andalucia welcomed the resumption of ferry services to Algeria on Saturday, November 13. All services had been suspended 20 months ago, when the Spanish Government decreed the first state of alarm due to the coronavirus health crisis and Algeria closed its borders. The Trasmediterranea shipping company has now restored

THE Queen will NOT be making an appearance at this Sunday’s Remembrance service, announced Buckingham Palace. The Queen will not be attending the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London as she has sprained her back. Buckingham Palace said the monarch was “disappointed” to miss the event. It had previously said it was the