Day: June 2, 2010

Ottocento restaurant, Mojacar Playa

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Ottocento is a restaurant that I’ve never been to. It used to be called “Arcano” until it changed its’ name earlier this year. It can be found next to Asuntxu tapa beer pull restaurant on the Playa. Here’s a photo: Hudson Stubbs tells me that: “We went there for a meal tonight and I cannot praise it too highly. Nice restrained modern decor – excellent service and very reasonable prices. We both had starters – Continue reading Ottocento restaurant, Mojacar Playa→

A couple of changes

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Sharp eyed readers will notice I’ve updated the look and feel of the site. Why? Well, I wanted to. Isn’t that enough? Let me know what you think. I may change it back in a few days, let’s see how it pans out. Comments to the usual places, please! Couple of the changes you’ll note: Info about how many visitors are viewing the site at any one time (bottom of right hand menu) Info about Continue reading A couple of changes→

How small scale corruption just spreads into every aspect of society once tolerated

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This rather annoyed me. I recently had cause to insert an advert into the local government bulletin (the BOPA). This is a government daily bulletin which publishes all local official business for the province. It’s published by the Diputación and is supposed to be a government body. “If it ain’t in the BOPA, it ain’t official” should be their motto. Now, there are two tariffs for inserting an ad, “normal” (14€) and “urgent” (28€). All Continue reading How small scale corruption just spreads into every aspect of society once tolerated→