So, after months of speculation, Prime Minister Zapatero has announced that he will call a General Election for Spain for the 20th November 2011. Of course, this will come as little surprise to many people as Zapatero has been under increasing pressure, from all quarters, to call a General Election in Spain since his decision earlier this year to stand [...]
Well, amazing! Tom Jones is coming to Gandia in Spain to give a concert on Tuesday the 16th August 2011. You may think that ‘It’s not unusual’ but I would say that it is not far off it – given that, as far as I know, this will be first time that Tom Jones has appeared in Gandia during his [...]
I am, as anyone who reads Culture Spain knows, a great supporter of Spain. It is a terrific country in which to live and offers holidaymakers a tremendous variety of activities, often within a blissful climate, almost whatever time of the year. However, when it comes to financial services in Spain and legal services in Spain – matters tend to [...]
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One of the great aspects to living in Spain (and many Mediterranean countries) is the quality of coffee served wherever you go. In fact, it is so difficult to find a bad cup of coffee in Spain that I once had a competition with a friend to find somewhere that served a truly rotten cup of coffee. Needless to say, [...]
I was trawling through the archives of Culture Spain yesterday and found some articles and information about Spain that you may find interesting. These are articles that I was commissioned to write for a magazine some years ago and, I think, they are well worth revisiting. Certainly, some of the topics that I was asked to write about were nothing [...]
I have just been approached by a very high profile Spanish organization that is campaigning against animal cruelty in Spain. This, of course, should be of interest to any right minded person and I hope that you will do your ‘bit’ to support them – and the many other organisations in Spain that do so much to help injured or [...]
So, what is there to say about the debt crisis in Spain – or, at least, what can we believe and what really is the situation? Frankly, I really do not know and I am not at all sure that the recent stress tests of EU banks provide much of a clue. Certainly, when the ‘same’ banking stress tests were undertaken [...]
Have you bought any cakes in Spain from a supermarket – as opposed to a corner shop? What about bread rolls and pastries? I know, I know that is a dumb question – pretty much all of us have, even if we have just come over to Spain for a brief holiday! I ask this because if you have bought [...]
A few days ago I had a fascinating conversation with a couple of Spanish friends of mine in Valencia – and then saw, by pure chance, in a different location altogether, a most remarkable photograph. The interesting thing is that both the conversation and photograph threw some new light (for me) on the culture of Spain and, most particularly, the [...]
Agriculture in Spain is having a hard time – not least because Spanish farmers are having trouble competing against Third World countries. Basic costs in Spain have rocketed over the past twenty years and yet the prices for produce have not increased significantly for Spanish farmers. This means that they are having a hard time, to put it mildly. The [...]