Political crisis as State and Church battle it out in Los Gallardos

Trouble afoot and the ancient divisions of Spain are once more rearing their ugly head, as the new secular political, democratic and forwards looking youth of Spain come head to head with the ancient repressive authoritive notions of the Catholic Church. This time, in the unlikely setting of the small village of Los Gallardos. Whilst chatting of life and home with Maria, the mayor, last week, she confided -I say confided, the whole village is Continue reading Political crisis as State and Church battle it out in Los Gallardos

Local politics in Arboleas and the Arboleas forum

I’m not much of a man for forums -too busy- but I was recently made aware of some interesting developments on the biggest of our local English language forums, arboleas.co.uk. All of the busiest forums seem to be up in the Almanzora valley – read Lenox’s interesting post about the different ones here. What with being retired, and being under the threat of demolition, the Brits of the Almanzora Valley have a lot of time Continue reading Local politics in Arboleas and the Arboleas forum