January 2022

WITH areas of vineyards around the world being lower than ever before, Spain still has vast swathes of countryside dedicated to grape growth. Countries such as Iran, Turkey and USA have all significantly reduced their vineyard numbers, meaning worldwide coverage is at an all-time low, albeit stabilising since 2017. DROPPING: Worldwide areas of vineyards since […]

CONSIDER this your go-to source for the best restaurants and bars in Granada.   We’ve have had the pleasure of eating out at Granada’s finest spots and now we want to show you our foodie bucket list – the ultimate guide to bars and restaurants in Granada.  We’ve thought long and hard over our top

FROM austere hilltop fortresses to splendid royal palaces and stunning Moorish alcazars, Spain out-castles all of Europe with over 2,500 to explore. Andalucia, fought over by Moors and Christians for seven centuries, is better-endowed than most regions with medieval fortified hilltop citadels. In Cadiz, where they marked the boundary between the two warring kingdoms, many

Apartment Javea / Xàbia, Alicante   3 beds   3 baths € 179,000 Duplex-apartment situated close to Javea Old Town, close to shops, supermarkets, bars and restaurants. The sea is a short drive away. The apartment is distributed over 2 floors and comprises: 1 double bedroom, 1 bathroom, a very spacious lounge-diner, a fully fitted

JUST north of the Rio Tinto in southwestern Spain, rising among gently rolling plains are stones belonging to a megalithic tomb dating back some five thousand years. This is the Dolmen de Soto Trigueros, one of around 1,650 Neolithic burial monuments found within Spain’s region of Andalucia, and an archaeological site that predates Stonehenge. But

SIGHTSEERS to the popular Sohail Castle got a shock on Saturday when they looked over the bridge at the mouth of the River Fuengirola. They spotted dozens of dead fish floating in the water. The bodies of the large fish – believed  to be mullet – could be seen all along the river stretching as

THE alternative community of Orgiva has been back in the news this year after a human skull was found in its midst, while it also emerged that the German prime suspect in the missing Madeleine McCann case spent considerable time in the locality. Christian Brueckner, 45, was a regular visitor to the Dragon Festival in

A MAN in Malaga tucking into a meal of beans and potatoes noticed something wrong when one mouthful seemed a bit too crunchy for veg. Juan Jose DM from Malaga spat out the offending morsel only to find it was a rat’s head that had apparently been lurking in a bag of frozen vegetables.  Juan

What are the benefits of CBD products for athletes and how they can help boost your performance? You may have heard that CBD is a natural anti-inflammatory, but did you know that it has been shown to reduce cortisol levels in both humans and animals? And what does cortisol do to us? It decreases our

WAS winning the lottery or striking gold on your list of goals for 2022? Well we may have found an easier way of finding your fortune.   Searching for your surname on a list of unclaimed estates could be the first step to you inheriting a pile of money.  Every year around €100 million worth