December 2021

CHRISTMAS is well and truly upon us. Which means it’s time to start planning the menu and, more importantly, which wines to drink with each meal. At Simply Spanish Wine, we’ve been down to the market to reserve our turkey and been thinking hard about some food and wine pairings, so everything is just right […]

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SPAIN’S northern city of Pamplona was hit by the ‘flood of the century’ when rivers burst their banks on Friday following torrential rain as Storm Barra rolled in across the north of the peninsula. As waters rose, sweeping away cars and flooding homes, those with kayaks took to the streets as the only way to

It’s been another beautiful day in southern Spain. With the sun shining and temperatures nudging 20° ex-pats and tourist didn’t think it could get any better. But as they looked out their windows at just after 6 o’clock this evening they were amazed at the most stunning sunset across the Mediterranean looking out past Gibraltar.

POLICE in Spain are appealing for information after the stabbing of a 7-year-old boy walking to his school in Madrid.  Officers have launched a probe after the brutal assault on Calle Bendicion de Camposin. The stabbing happened on Friday, December 10 at around 1.10pm, after the primary 3 class finished their PE lesson in the

SPAIN is currently in the grip of what it calls the sixth wave and for the third time since the pandemic started the infection rate has broken the threshold above 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days. But the heath situation is not as bad as it has been in previous waves due to

WHAT is it about Spain’s Christmas Lottery (the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad) that makes 70% of over-18s in Spain try their luck each year? The maximum jackpot in Spain’s Christmas Lottery – known as El Gordo or the ‘fat one’ – is €400,000 per person and way below the winnings of America’s Powerball lottery that

STORM Barra has claimed its first life in Spain after devastating parts of northern and eastern Spain with wind, rain and snowstorms. A 49-year-old woman died in the northern town of Sunbilla, near to San Sebastian, after a landslide buried her as she sat in her car outside a friends’ house. Images show the landslide

I HAVE been branded a supermarket snob by my children who tell me to change chain every time I whinge about the bill. This is particularly the case with my oldest who was a firm fan of Aldi when she was doing her degree in London, bustling down to an industrial-looking outback south of Peckham

THE Policia Nacional have closed down an Alicante drugs ‘supermarket’ that welcomed clients at any time of the day or night. Five Spaniards, three men and two women, aged between 19 and 69 years have been arrested. Police said a ‘well-known’ group in the north of the city ran the round-the-clock outlet. Small quantities of