The Tourist Board for Almuñécar and La Herradura are promoting the municipality far and wide, this time in Gothemburg in Sweden.
Almuñécar Arrives in Sweden
by Martin Myall •
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The Brits Will Arrive Soon
by Martin Myall •
The UK Government announced that on the 6th of July blanket restrictions on travel would be relaxed so that Brits could return from holiday without quarantining.
Brits Nabbed in Drugs Bust
by Hugh MacArthur •
Five British citizens, three men and two women, were arrested in Málaga, accused of being members of a drugs ring.
Malaga Bombings Arrests
by Vivienne Hughes •
Spanish police forces, in combination with the Swedish one, carried out arrests on the Costa del Sol and in Sweden against a gang of hitmen, two of whom were Swedes.
Stockholm Revisited
by Marianne Lindahl •
we made a wonderful trip to our beloved Stockholm at the end of July. This is part of a private Swedish/Finnish cultural exchange programme with a Swedish couple whom we met in Almuñecar more than 12 years ago.
Ice Alarm
by David Darby •
Every year in northern Sweden the famous Ice Hotel is rebuilt, using huge ice blocks, cut from the frozen Torne River in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna. Always fully booked, this strange, but beautiful ice building has been created every year since 1990. However, the Swedish National Housing Board has decided, that even this building must be fitted with fire alarms!
International Film Crews in Nerja
by Paula Anthony •
Films crew from Sweden, Britain and Sweden will be coming to the Costa del Sol to shoot in the streets of Nerja
Cuddly Sing-along and Melancholy Tango
by Marianne Lindahl •
Sweden and Finland offer fantastic musical events during this summer, with chamber music, opera, jazz, rock festivals, you name it. There are gigs and festivals for every taste, but I would like here to take up two of the most typical and folksy summer festivities; Sing-along at Skansen in Stockholm (Allsång på Skansen) and the Finnish Tango Festival in Seinäjoki , Southern Ostrobothnia.
Hornet Sex Hoax?
by David Darby •
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story… or so the saying goes. But we have to confess to being more than a tad disappointed that this story, that was doing the worldwide rounds of the Internet, may well be a hoax. It concerns a Swedish farmer called Hasse and his death by sexual intercourse with a hornet’s nest.
Estonian Swedes
by Marianne Lindahl •
At Los Nordicos last week we had the privilege to listen to an interesting lecture by historian Bengt Kummel, PhD, from Finland. The topic was “The dramatic circumstances around the transfer of Estonian Swedes to Sweden in 1944”. Dr. Kummel started by giving some historic data on the Swedish population of Estonia, a linguistic minority residing in the coastal areas and islands of what today is western and northern Estonia.