January 2024

Spain’s Guardia Civil offer THIS advice if you are stopped at a police control: Take note of number four

THE Guardia Civil have issued some handy ‘do’s and don’t’s for if you are ever stopped at a police control while driving you car. It will happen to all of us at one time or another, and it doesn’t even have to be a particularly perilous sign of bad driving or wrongdoing. But when it […]

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Need a job? This hotel in Spain’s Estepona is looking for waiters, bar staff and more

THIS hotel in Spain’s Estepona is hiring waiters, bar staff and more, could you be their latest recruit?  The venue in Estepona’s Plaza de Flores is preparing for a busy 2024 season.  Hotel El Pilar is hiring for a variety of jobs including mixologists, waiters, bar staff and outlet representatives.  In the centre of Estepona,

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Meet the ‘Gaudi of Axarquia’: How a 72-year-old artist is brightening up his Costa del Sol town with his unique artworks – and is now opening his SECOND museum

ANTONI Montanez has been a carpenter all his life. Montanez is proud of his impressive house museum. Photo: Documental Casa Antonio Montañez Torremolinos/Youtube Whether creating kitchen countertops or pieces of furniture, he was always inspired by art.  But it wasn’t until he retired some 20 years ago that his love affair with craftsmanship really flourished. 

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Spain brings back mandatory face masks: Protective gear MUST be worn in hospitals and health centres from this date

SPAIN’S Ministry of Health will impose the mandatory use of masks in health centres and hospitals throughout the country as respiratory infections rise and to also provide legal protection to those regions that have already reintroduced masks. The Ministry has now given a Wednesday deadline for all regional governments to send them reports on the

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Reservoirs lose more water in Spain’s Andalucia and are now at just 20% capacity

ANDALUCIA’S reservoirs have hit an alarming low at the start of 2024, plunging to just 20% of their capacity. This minor yet significant drop of 0.04% leaves the region’s reservoirs with just 2,394 hectometres cubed (hm3) – a drastic fall from over 3,000 hm3 a year ago. The Guadalquivir has emerged as a silver living,

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Plastic crisis in Spain: Millions of pellets of potentially toxic microplastics are washing up on beaches and ‘accumulating in fish and other seafood’

BEACHES in northern Spain have become inundated with millions of plastic pellets from a container lost by a merchant ship on December 8 in Portuguese waters- some 80 kilometres west of Viana do Castelo. The pellets were stored in 25 kilo plastic bags which broke up against rocks before reaching the coast. The first ones

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Mother dumps two children, aged 6 and 8, on a busy highway on Spain’s Costa Blanca ‘as punishment’

A MOTHER faces prosecution after dumping her two children, aged six and eight, on a Costa Blanca highway as a punishment. An Elche Policia Local patrol spotted the youngsters walking alone on a poorly lit road without a pavement between Arenales del Sol and El Altet. As officers pulled over to speak to the children,

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Bizarre twist in ‘kidnap’ case in Spain’s Jaen, as victim is arrested by police after they found a marijuana plantation in her house

THE APPARENT kidnapping of a woman and her seven-year-old daughter in Jaen, Andalusia took a bizarre twist after she ended up being arrested by the police after they discovered a marijuana plantation in her house. The story began last Wednesday, when the 24-year-old was visited by a man with whom she had a sporadic sexual

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Why this city in eastern Spain will begin its reign as the Green Capital of Europe this week

VALENCIA CITY officially launches its year as the European Green Capital 2024 this Thursday with two days of ‘opening’ events at the Palau de la Musica. With the Green Capital status, Valencia will lead the push towards increased sustainability in Europe over the next 12 months. The two-day launch will be hosted by mayor Maria

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