December 2021

Mass vaccination point springs up at Costa Blanca shopping centre amidst fear of rising infection rates in Spain

A MASS vaccination point is being quickly set up at a Torrevieja shopping centre with a “no appointment necessary” message to all people needing their jab in the fight against Covid-19. People who may need a booster jab have been invited to La Zenia Shopping Centre on Tuesday, December 7. Torrevieja Health Department has established […]

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DiverXo: ‘World’s best chef’ David Muñoz raises price tag to become the most expensive restaurant in Spain

JUST months after Spain’s culinary whizz kid David ‘Dabiz’ Muñoz was voted ‘Best Chef in the World’ he has upped the price of a tasting menu at his three-Michelin-starred restaurant DiverXo to an eye-watering €365. The ‘enfant terrible’ of Spain’s restaurant scene has raised the price of a meal at his famous restaurant by almost than

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DGT launches annual drink and drug driving campaign in Spain’s Andalucia

THE director general of the DGT (Spanish Traffic Authority) has launched its annual drink and drug driving campaign. As of today, Monday, December 6, the DGT will be taking part in a widespread week-long crackdown to target those who choose to drink or take drugs and drive, in a bid to keep the Andalucian roads

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HOURLY RATE: Spain fines 1,274 companies a total €1.5 billion over working hours violations

THE Spanish government has raked in more than €1.5 billion in fines on companies who failed to properly record their employees’ working hours. Since a new law was enacted in 2019, employment inspectors have detected 1,274 infringements. This means each guilty company has been fined an average €1.2 million. So far this year, 401 businesses

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Doctor in Spain reunited with the baby he helped save 24 years ago — now she’s a nurse at the same Barcelona hospital

FATE came knocking when Dr Felix Castillo was reunited with a very special patient after over two decades.  On December 4, 1997, a little girl was born three months early at Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, weighing just 800 grams. A born fighter, Noelia Ruiz spent the first 12 weeks of her life in an

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The perfect winter retreat: Discover Arriate, a hidden gem in Spain’s Serrania de Ronda

IT feels like the Land that Time Forgot as you drop deeper and deeper into the hidden gorge above the village of Arriate. Among a rich and diverse canopy of trees and undergrowth lies a secret world of ruined olive mills, cave houses and ancient burial sites. Deep cover : Arriate’s Arroyo de la Ventilla

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Prado in the streets: Madrid’s famous museum takes to the road in Spain

IF you can’t take people to the museum, take the museum to the people. Madrid’s world famous Prado museum has set up an exhibition featuring life-size photos of some of its most important works in the streets of Guadalajara (Castilla-La Mancha) in a bid to bring art to the masses. This project, dubbed The Prado

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Travel Spain: How the pandemic saw Madrid transform into a luxury tourism destination

It doesn’t get more luxurious than this. A deep-filled jacuzzi in a marble-clad salon set beneath a golden dome with a sparkling chandelier that wouldn’t look out of place in a ballroom in the Palacio Real. This is the bathroom in the Royal Suite of Spain’s most upmarket hotel, The Four Seasons Madrid, a 400

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