So, together with the brother in law, I popped into the “Oficina de Extranjeros” in Almeria. To get his NIE, of course.
We queued with a lot of… shall we call them “non EU citizens”? Lovely fellas. Pity the majority don’t seem to know about deodorent. Still, they smile a lot, even if they don’t seem [...]
Does ANYBODY need all the free UK papers in Spain to print all the TV listings every week? Is there anybody with SKY TV who hasn’t got the TV listings at hand by pressing “TV guide”?
After all, when the TV people were rebroadcasting UK TV channels over analog or microwave systems, there was a (minute) [...]
A concerned neighbour discovered an injured puffin (Fratercula arctica) on a beach in Vera.
Seprona (enviromental police) has taken care of it, and say that despite its injured eye and wing it is expected to make a full recovery.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[Read full post]I’ve heard a (first hand) report that while picking up some friends from Almeria airport on Monday, a fellow was surrounded by (Eastern Europeans?) who tried to stop him. He avoided them, but then discovered that somebody had also slashed his tyres. (It’s possible, I suppose, that they were warning him about the slashed tyres, although [...]
[Read full post]While sitting here enjoy the evening breeze through the windows, we were suddenly inundated with a small cloud of fruit flies. Within seconds the lights were covered in them.
Running and closing the windows I grabbed the flyspray and liberally applied it. Killed about 80% of them, which means my living room floor is now covered [...]
The Telegraph (read full story) reports that the EU is to take Spain to the EU courts over the controversial “land grab” laws that allows promotors and developers to seize public land if it is demonstrated “in the public good”.
The EU claims that projects were awarded “without fair competition” and were corrupt. Well, duh.
Rating 3.00 out [...]
[Read full post]The mayor of Polopos-La Mamola, a small village in Granada, has been on a hunger strike since the 18th of August in an attempt to bring public attention to the new local financing mecanism designed by the Junta de Andalucia. Pedro García, (Agrupación Socialista Independiente party) said that repeated requests to meet with Andalucian President [...]
[Read full post] The Anglo in Hispanic blogosphere (http://www.notesfromspain.com/2008/08/25/morbo-spanish-news-media-horror/, http://southofwatford.blogspot.com/2008/08/madrid-airport-accidentthe-reactions.html, and other) has been buzzing with suggestions that the Spanish media coverage of the Madrid Air Disaster is because of some unique Spanish trait.
Well, I disagree. I don’t think it’s because of a TV programme in the 90’s, or because of pent up frustration after the Franco [...]
According to teleprensa.net Luis Caparros, the swine who knocked down the Priors house, built large scale electric pylons everywhere, gas pipes, approved the POTALA and generally ruined the area (and, by the way, got a promotion for it - he’s now the head of Housing and Territorial Organisation of Almeria) has promised, under intense media [...]
[Read full post]Rarely have I read a more insightful article than this one from Libbey Purves, writing today (25th August 2008) in The Time. Read it here.
It explains, in a clear, concise, unable to quibble way, just what is wrong with not just Blairs’ Britain but the modern Europe of today. I’m not even going to comment [...]
