Lecrín Valley
News from Granana (Lecrin Valley): melegis,mondujar,restabal,padul,durcal
Here’s A Surprise!
Whilst los autonomos (self-employed workers) struggle to pay their social security and workers are laid off, our dear politicians don’t appear to have twigged that there’s an economic crisis with its teeth sunk into the average person’s jugular vein. »
Costa Tropical’s Seaside Gazette
The online version of the Seaside Gazette has been going for two years and already has 1,650 articles, some of them being multiple ones. »
Publication Update – June
Am rushing to finish the Monday 8am deadline for the printer, which, barring major disasters, shouldn't be a problem. Consequently, we will be out on the 1st of June. The online editions will start going up on the same day. The online edition, of course will start going up on the on the same... »
British Consulate Newsletter – May
Fact or Fiction: You must have worked 15 years in Spain to have entitlement to a Spanish pension. Simple and straightforward. Right? Wrong! »
Publication Update – May
We collect the Gazette from the printer tomorrow, but bear in mind that Motril has a four-day bank-holiday weekend, so most places there won’t get the Gazette until the 4th. Anyway the online edition, of course will start going up on the 1st, as always, albeit in the evening. Distribution is as follows: The... »
Pathways to the Sky
if you aren't sure where to go for a pleasant walkabout, just use your mobile to navigate to Eurorando 2011, which will give you all the poop on paths and happy trails, especially those to be found in Andalucia and the vecinity of El Padul. »
The Windmills of their Time
Before Don Quixote thrust his lance at the imaginary re-creations of his mind, the Arabs of course had settled and defined Al Andalusi forever with such things as windmills, which is why Francisco Muñoz is building three cortijos near an Arabic mill up in El Padul to which, he assures us, tourists from the... »
Make Fun; not War
The old military training complex up by El Padul, which opened not long after the Spanish Civil War, may soon become a sports and leisure centre. »
The Risks of Argument
A couple killed on A-44 motorway after they got out of their car do continue a heated verbal argument - they were both knocked over and killed. »
British Embassy April Newsletter
The monthly newsletter sent out by the British Embassy in Madrid, covering the Royal British Legion, unemployment benefit in Spain and many other points of interest »
