Three stories from the January edition, including, Airline Strike, Economic Delinquency and Murder Pays.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Monsters, Vampires and the Gothic Imagination
by Nadfas •
The date is June 18th, 1816; the venue is the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva and the dramatic Jura mountain range. Byron’s guests are his secretary Dr Polidori and Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley. Outside, the rain is beating down and thunder and lightning flash across the lake from the mountains.
RNA Burns Night
by RNA •
Things are progressing well for the Burns Night preps – the piper is booked and the haggis has been bought!
Expiring Perks
by Martin Myall •
The City Hall of Granada has decided to do away with an embarrassing perk enjoyed by its department heads; unlimited phone credit on their work mobiles.
Three Spanish National Articles
by Duncan Inglis •
Three national articles from the January edition. Including interesting stuff about Argentina declassifying papers relating to the ‘disappeared’ Spaniards. Monetary union discussions and amendments. And finally Hot Hot Hot about the overall yearly temperature in Spain for 2011.
Tourist in Denmark
by Mette Owens •
Many of us have moved to Spain from another country or perhaps divide our time between our native country and Spain. When arriving in Spain, most of us become avid tourists keen to explore the sights and learn more about Spanish history and culture.
The Reoccurring Six
by Martin Myall •
Six people were arrested for allegedly embezzling 9,700 euros from an elderly man, even going so far as to threaten his life. The six men, all from different villages around the Alpujarra, are aged between 21 and 40.
Longer Work Days
by Martin Myall •
The Town Hall clerks will now have to work one afternoon a week – they’re not pleased. The union would prefer that their members worked half an hour more every day, rather than 2.5 hours on one particular afternoon. Anyway, talks are still taking place with the staff but it is liable to be a Tuesday or Thursday afternoon.
Motril, Fish & Gas
by Martin Myall •
If you ask most people when the crisis began, they will answer that it was in 2008, but in reality it’s like asking when World War Two began – it depends for whom: if you’re an American it’s 1941 but if you’re Chinese, it began in the mid 30’s with the Japanese invasion. And so it is that the crisis for Motril fishermen began long before 2008.
Food or Morals?
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
‘Food is the first thing, morals follow on’ is a famous quote from the song What Keeps Mankind Alive from Bertold Brecht’s Three Penny Opera. Maybe this is an appropriate phrase for a Boxing Day afternoon reflecting on the opulent Christmas dinner or a loose interpretation of the Pope’s Christmas message asking for more consciousness from a satisfied and saturated society.