Tag Archive for Morocco

Houston, We Have a Problem

It doesn’t matter, it appears, if you have an olive grove bending under the weight of a crop because olive farmers in Granada are facing a disastrous campaign this year.

Defence Minister Breaks Ranks

Whilst Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, might be treading a very diplomatic path concerning Morocco, the feisty Defence Minister, Margarita Robles is not taking what happened quietly.

Cases of Measles

The Dirección General de Salud Pública belonging to the Junta has confirmed two new cases of measles in the last week within Andalucia, bringing the total number of cases so far this year to 88.

Well, Quite A Day!

Obviously, we were unable to publish anything on the nationwide outage but we were able to follow what was happening on a good-ol’ fashioned transistor radio.

Motril Port’s Speciality

If you regularly travel up the A-44 to Granada, you will probably have seen the lorries bringing down the huge propeller blades for the wind-powered generators on their way to Motril Port.

Foreign Farm Workers

Approximately 30% of agricultural workers in Spain of foreigners; it’s hard to find Spaniards who are willing to work in intensive cultivation in the hot south, for example.