Features

editorial columns by feature writers

Fortified Wines

Before modern techniques were available most wines were fortified. This involves adding strong alcoholic spirit to stop the wine going off and to give the wine muscle to travel.

Reader’s Letter: Give Me Five

In years gone by, visitors to Spain were dismayed to see abandoned boxes of kittens by rubbish bins, donkeys and horses chained to stakes without shade or water, and dogs wandering around with open wounds.

Al Bar, Almuñécar

It’s great to see something original, giving locals a wider choice of takeaway food; such is the case with Al Bar who do delicious spit-roast ham.

Reader’s Letter: Old Age

Some of us in the British community in Almuñécar have been thinking about our future here when we can no longer manage to live in our own houses or flats or when we no longer want to.

Where is The Logic?

Mar Gómez commented on one of our articles (via facebook) about the 7-year-girl who was gored by a bull as she played outside her front door:

7,000th Article Reached

The online version of the Seaside Gazette posted its 7,000th-article on the 6th of August, entitled, “Salobreña Park Reopens.” We reached our 6,000th article on the 21st of June, 2015.