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.
Lecrin Valley
News from Granana (Lecrin Valley): melegis,mondujar,restabal,padul,durcal
The Risks of Argument
by Duncan Inglis •
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
by Editor •
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
Publication Update: March
by Editor •
We go to the printer Tuesday the 1st, meaning that hardcopy distribution begins Wednesday3rd March in the evening. We missed getting to the printer on Friday the 25th of Feb because my main computer went down and I am now using a back up one… Don’t you just love it when that happens on the…
Publication Update: February
by Editor •
Peel your oggling marbles – this is the plan. We go to the printer Monday 31st, meaning that hardcopy distribution begins Wednesday 2nd February in the evening. The online edition, of course will start going up on the 1st, as always, if I can convince, Dave Darby, back in England, to put some stuff up…
Drowned Memories
by Duncan Inglis •
here’s something lugubrious about burial at sea, which is how you might describe what happened to two small pueblos in the Lecrin Valley when three dams were erected twenty odd years ago
Publication Update: January
by Editor •
OK, we got to the printer this morning, meaning that we could be out on the streets this Thursday evening (30th), but the printer doesn’t work over Friday, Saturday or Sunday, so if there are any hitches, the Gazette won’t be out until Monday the 3rd. ¡Viva España! The online edition, however, free from the…
British Embassy Newsletter – December
by Editor •
The monthly newsletter sent out by the British Embassy. This month includes information on passport photographs and old-age pension for women.
Frozen Students
by Editor •
Padul’s budding scholars at the San Sebastian school are tolerating freezing classrooms thanks to a combination of power cuts and a new heating system, the former, all too common, erasing the programming of the latter.
Wetlands Stroll
by Duncan Inglis •
Padul is home to the most important wetlands in the southeast of Spain. Most people don’t know – not even the locals – that it exists, in spite of it covering 300,000 hectares.