August 2022

SPAIN may seem to grind to a halt in August and many business close up for ‘vacaciones’, at least outside of resort towns, but August 15 is the one day that is officially a holiday across Spain. This year, 2022, it falls on a Monday which means workers across Spain are enjoying a long weekend […]

AS of tomorrow, Tuesday August 16, Jaen Cathedral will offer visitors a vanguard virtual reality experience. The cathedral in southern Spain, considered by many to be one of Spain’s best cathedrals, will be the first in the country to offer tourists a cultural visit of the temple with 360º glasses, permitting a bird-eye view of

MALAGA-Costa del Sol airport closed last July with 2,064,856 passengers, exceeding two million passengers for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, the over two million passengers that passed through the main gateway to Andalucia in July was only 7.3% less than in the same month of 2019 (2,228,464). According to

OF ALL the possible images of Andalucia, the white village set against a mountainous landscape is one of the most iconic. In provinces such as Cadiz and Malaga, the pueblos blancos shimmer blindingly under the Andalucian sun. They happen to be as pretty as a picture, but there are practical reasons for why they are

WHEN it comes to talking about climate change, it is impossible to stay away from politics. They are completely intertwined. My recent columns have focused on the dire situation that planet earth faces as a result of governments around the world failing to act quickly enough to reduce the more than obvious impact of global

THE Bank of Spain has confirmed that the 12-month Euribor closed July at a monthly average of 0.992%, compared to 0.852% in June. This continues the trend of rises that began at the beginning of 2022, although the rate of increase has started to slow. But as inflation stays high, it is likely that Euribor

A DRUNK woman has been arrested for trying to drown a dog that had been left in her care off Illetas beach in Calvia. The owner of nine-year-old Laika had left the pooch in the care of a friend while he went to a hospital appointment. But the girlfriend of the dog’s owner decided to

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WITH temperatures and temperaments running high it’s time for ice cream. Having licked my way through several hundred gelati during my 1990’s stint in Florence I´m always on the look out for delicious artisanal balls of flavour.  One person who took the equivalent of coals to Newcastle in the ice cream world was an ambitious

PEOPLE attending the Accident and Emergency Clinic at St Bernard’s Hospital will now be able to see how long they have to wait to see a doctor. A new live feed system will give patients updates every half hour to prevent long waits at the Rock’s drop-in medical service. It will also funnel urgent or