Random Views

What a terrible disappointment those of us who live near Valencia had to suffer on Friday night. We’re near the end of the eighth week of ...

Our local sports club, usually a centre for people and pleasure Now abandoned for the duration The streets are emptying here in Spain. ...

All Saints Day. The day after Halloween. You could tell here in Madrid, if only because some of the people we saw had clearly not finished c...

I thought it would be hell. Back in March, when we moved from England to Spain, we took our dogs but not our cat Misty. We were moving int...

“Sin cita”: the magic words of Spanish bureaucracy.  They mean “without an appointment”. The words are music to the ears because, as I’v...

It was great, for the young foreign couple in Valencia, to see an ad on a local website for a second-hand kitchen island. It was exactly wha...

Vermouth, I always thought, was rather a banal mixer, used with gin, and predominantly by people in spy movies saying pretentious things lik...

One swallow, they say, does not a summer make. It ’ s pretty hot here, in Valencia as in most of Spain, and yet it doesn't seem to be j...

“This is the only city in the world,” our Madrid taxi driver told us a few weeks ago, “which has a statue of the Fallen Angel.” Well. Taxi...

It’s not easy being relatively chaotic if you’re trying to live an organised life. That was confirmed on a recent trip to Germany. I could...