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It’s been a week of two sad anniversaries. One of them rather less painful than the other. But neither of them cheerful. The Spanish have a ...

I don’t think I’ve previously used a photo of a cellophane-wrapped shirt as an illustration for one of these posts, so perhaps I owe you an ...

One of the features that first attracted us to the house we live in now, near the Spanish city of Valencia, was its back garden. And when I ...

Let’s celebrate Netflix for making the show Smiley . Set in Barcelona, it’s one of the best gay-scene series I’ve seen for a long time. At l...

In La Cañada’s ‘Irish’ pub It was quite a celebration. Not just a simple birthday, at least not in the sense of a specific day. More a seria...

It’s such a pleasure to be visited by friends you haven’t seen for years.  We’ve known Christiane and Jean, French friends who live near Mar...

It’s been a curious experience, turning 70, as I did this week.  It’s a bit of a milestone. The aged inhabitant of the little village of irr...