I have never been anything other than enthusiastic about the joys of living in Spain nor have I ever pretended to be other than utterly biased about La Drova as the place in which to live. Indeed, I daily thank our good fortune in choosing La Drova which is, to my mind, the perfect place in which to live permanently in [...]
One of the truly joyful aspects to living in Spain revolves around the general lack of political correctness. This is obvious in a whole number of ways, most of which are very positive. The strictures of paranoic UK Health and Safety, for example, often seem like mysterious and alien concepts here. Indeed, you only need to walk in the middle [...]
Property in Spain, according to a recent article in The Economist, is currently over valued by 50.4%! This shocking figure is enough to make anyone in Spain despair. How, you have to ask, could a reputable magazine like The Economist be so wrong about the Spanish property market? The answer, unfortunately, is that The Economist ( I suspect rather lazily) [...]
If ever there was a time to avoid writing about football then it must be now! I imagine everyone is exhausted by the World Cup, particulary the victorious Spanish – whose productivity today will probably be in minus figures! Certainly, I have already had two appointments cancelled due, I suspect, to late night revelry. It is understandable, really, and if [...]
Having said that I would steer clear of the Spanish economy, I felt that I should draw attention to this article recently bravely posted on www.eyeonspain.com http://www.eyeonspain.com/spain-magazine/spain-economy-dead.aspx I think it warrants reading – although it is pretty pessimistic. I am much the same (as any reader of this Blog will know) when it comes to my views about the Spanish [...]
In these troubled times, it is a bore to feel the necessity to ‘harp on’ about Spain’s problems. However, they are an unavoidable topic here in Spain – with the ‘crisis’ (the word is the same in Spanish) on everyone’s lips wherever you go. This is hardly surprising given the horrendous rate of unemployment in Spain (somewhere well in excess [...]