CHRISTMAS traditions in Spain are in essence no different from any other nation – people hold on to strange customs, eat and drink a lot of stranger things and ideally end up in stitches of laughter as the brandy goes to grandma’s head. But if you’re from an English-speaking country the minor details will be […]
¡Feliz Navidad! 11 of the strangest Christmas traditions celebrated in Spain Read More »
SINCE the beginning of this week, Malaga city has been supplying water for human consumption to the Axarquia region. The delicate situation of the La Viñuela reservoir, with 30.55 cubic hectometres—leading to an increase in the concentration of heavy metals in the water—has, in recent months, not only jeopardised crop irrigation, but also human consumption.
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THE golden slopes of Spain’s magical Sierra Nevada are open again… and it just keeps snowing! Two more days of snowfall guarantee skiing and snowboarding for this bank holiday weekend. There are predicted to be 20kms of skiable slopes open by Saturday morning. [embedded content] With 70 new state of the art water cannon the
AND sing it’s nearly Christmas and the snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada Read More »
THE first COVID-19 Omicron infection in Spain involving somebody who has not returned from a foreign trip has been confirmed in Madrid. A man, 62, has mild symptoms of the recently-identified variant that originated in Southern Africa. Madrid’s health department said that he had been double-jabbed with the AstraZeneca vaccine. He has no travel history
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SPAIN will have to answer to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg over not doing enough to combat nitrate pollution in areas like the Mar Menor. The European Commission says that Spain has flouted the provisions of the EU’s Nitrate Directive in several regions including Murcia, the Valencian Community, the Balearics, and Aragon. It
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THREE people who ran an illegal cannabis club in Denia have been arrested for selling drugs at their city centre headquarters. It’s the latest in a whole series of Policia Nacional raids on clubs around Denia in the last year. Cannabis associations are legal in Spain so long as they have a registered list of
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A NEW system of safety checks will be carried out by British consular staff at resorts across the Balearic Islands following a spate of deaths of holidaymakers who fell from hotel balconies. The new protocol has been established following the high-profile death of 18-year-old Brit, Tom Channon, who plummeted 50ft over a knee-high wall at
TWO rescued loggerhead turtles have been released into the sea some 30 miles off the Costa Blanca shore. The two specimens were found off the coasts of Burriana and Vinaros in Castellon Province earlier in the autumn. One of them was accidentally caught in a fisherman’s net and the other got entangled in raffia. The
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JOAN Manuel Serrat has announced he will say goodbye to the stage with his last ever world tour as he winds down his life on the road. The 77-year-old musician announced his retirement tour – called ‘The vice of singing 1965-2022’ – in an emotional statement to his fans. Joan, who sings in both Spanish
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THE biological parents of a woman swapped at birth in a hospital in northern Spain 19 years ago have told their daughter they will ‘welcome her’ and ‘take her in’. The maternity ward mix-up occurred when two little girls who were born five hours apart on the same day in 2002 were switched at a
