Welcome to our blog, where you’ll find our particular take on all things Spain in general and all things Costa del Sol in particular. Keep up to date with what’s going on, or what’s not, and if you feel particularly passionate about anything you see then make yourself heard by leaving your own comments. That’s what it’s all about..!
Last Wednesday in Malaga was the scene of an unprecedented expat demonstration, with property owners from all across Andalucia protesting against perceived property rights abuses and demolition threats that have placed a number of homeowners in precarious positions.
Parts of Malaga city centre were brought to a standstill as hundreds of predominately British expats – many [...]
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Posted by Ian |
Spain’s property industry grew for the first time in three years in January this year, prompting some of the industry’s most respected experts to announce that now might well be the time to buy.
Statistics from Spain’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) have revealed that Spain’s property market recorded 34,000 home sales in January 2010, a [...]
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Pensioners and soon-to-be-retirees, listen up. That idyllic retirement dream life in the sun is under threat…if you choose the wrong country, that is. A ruling today by the European Court of Human Rights rejected a case and appeal by 13 British expats arguing for their UK-based pensions to be increased in line with inflation.
This ruling, [...]
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Returning home early from work the other day, I caught my girlfriend doing something that shocked me to my very core. Now don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t quite bad enough to have me mentally preparing for the pain of a cd collection pair off (which’d be simple really – ”if it has guitars on [...]
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After four years of construction Málaga airport’s swish new state-of-the-art Terminal 3 officially opens on March 15 – with Spain’s King Juan Carlos presiding over the ceremony – and it opens to the public the next day. A shot in the arm for tourism and commerce, not only on the Costa del Sol but for [...]
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Posted by Carolyn |
There’s always been something quite romantic about the French Revolution. The image of millions of downtrodden proletariats collectively joining arms in response to absolute rule by the monarchy and storming the Bastille, then marching on Versailles, carries with it the green shoots of democracy and rose-tinted revisionist views of the past.
One imagines the entire movement [...]
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Posted by Ian |
Back in the halcyon days of 2006, the thought process behind buying a property in Spain fell into two categories: you either bought because you really, really wanted to own a home in Spain, or you bought because you, well, kind of thought you had to. It’s human nature – you are either so sure [...]
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Cruelty – a clearly defined act of inflicting suffering upon someone/thing, or a subjective viewpoint whereby the severity of, or indeed existence, is all in the eye of the beholder? I only ask because one of Spain’s most iconic cultural pastimes – Bullfighting – is in the spotlight again.
Madrid’s parliament has recently elevated the bullfight, [...]
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Despite Spain’s best attempts to instigate a recovery in its stuttering economy, the practise of bulldozing illegally-built homes – many belonging to British expats – is undermining the country’s efforts to drag itself out of recession, said the UK’s minister for Europe Chris Bryant this week.
During a visit to a number of beleaguered British expats [...]
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Following Pope Benedict XVI’s controversial visit to Britain later this year, he will make a long-awaited and hotly-aniticipated pilgrimage to the holy city of Santiago de Compostela.
A spokesman for the Vatican, Father Federico Lombardi, has revealed that the Pope will begin his journey in Barcelona by consecrating Gaudi’s unfinished Sagrada Familia temple before following the [...]
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