December 2021

ANTI-SEMITES spray-painted the Town Hall of a tiny northern Spanish town this week, but their graffiti made disturbing reference to a Spanish priest now 500 years dead. ‘Torquemada era camarada‘ (‘Torquemada was an ally’) read the black graffiti on sunbaked Spanish brick. To anyone in Spain, the name of Torquemada instantly means cruelty and religious […]

Townhouse Siero, Asturias   3 beds   1 baths € 243,000 For lovers of nature and tranquility! Beautiful independent CHALET, with 5,600 m2 of land, built in 2004 and including all the tools for the care of this beautiful garden. Waking up to the singing of birds, seeing the valley covered in the typical morning

A PICTURE of a police dog from Valencia, Spain, looking lovingly at his handler has scooped top spot in a Europol photo competition. Professional and amateur photographers working with law enforcement authorities were invited to submit photographs which show the varied nature of their daily work during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Photographs were entered

IT’S beginning to smell a lot like Christmas, here in Spain, when the buttery aroma of mantecados warm from the oven wafts from bakeries and abuelas’ kitchen windows, filling the chill December streets with festive expectation. Sinful homebaked sweetmeats have been a guilty Christmas pleasure in these parts since Moorish times and every town, village,

MALAGA is the most popular place to go camping in Andalucia, according to new figures.  Data collected by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography found the city was a hit with happy campers, even well after the summer season ended.  Most of the campers were from Spain (38,475), compared to 9,275 foreign visitors. Spanish holidaymakers

A GANG of teens are licking their wounds after being bitten by a dog following a boozy street brawl in Malaga.  The group of five youngsters were seen throwing bottles at people and taunting a passerby’s Belgian Malinois.  The shocking scenes unfolded in the early hours of Friday morning near Calle Comedias in the city

A ‘MISERABLE’ man who allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death with a knife in a frenzied attack is facing a life sentence for murder after being undone by blood on his hands.  The 44-year-old man allegedly stabbed partner Lorena Requena, 39, multiple times while their young daughters were at school on Friday (December 10).  He

THE Spanish government has given the green light to introduce new measures to attract digital nomads to make their base in Spain. The measures, which were approved by the cabinet on Friday, are designed to tempt the sort of workers who can do their job from anywhere in the world – as long they have

SINGER songwriter Pablo Alboran announced he is to play an intimate gig in his hometown of Malaga next summer.  The Saturno star is coming to the city next year, where he’ll play a live set in at the Teatro Cervantes.  In a series of tweets published on Saturday the musician revealed he was embarking on

A DELUSIONAL Granada woman threatened to murder her neighbour after she believed they killed her cat. The woman from Atarfe hurled abuse at neighbour at around 7pm on February 24 and accused her neighbour of being a ‘murderer’ and was heard shouting ‘I am going to kill you’. The woman, who defender herself in court,