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“A warm and intelligent account of expat life in Spain filled with humorous anecdotes” Daily Telegraph Expat
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Wednesday May 16, 2012
Interview with Talk Radio Europe!
Thanks to Rod Younger, founder of Books4Spain, a recent interview between Talk Radio Europe presenter, Mark Curry and me, has now been uploaded onto Youtube. You can hear the interview here
For a fantastic selection of books about Spain, do pop by Rod’s excellent site, Books4Spain If for some reason the link doesn’t take you there directly, go to...
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Majorca’s still attracting the big fish despite economic gloom
An estimated one million disgruntled Spaniards took to the streets of 80 cities on the mainland yesterday to protest about the government’s new labour reforms and spending cuts in public services. As angry chants of “Trabajo, Dignidad, Derechos” meaning “Work, Dignity, Rights” rang out from town squares from Madrid to Catalonia, here in Majorca all was blissfully calm.
Much as...
Tuesday May 15, 2012
May the Border Force be with you
Recently, returning to Majorca on a midday flight from Gatwick, I sauntered through a fairly empty Palma airport and made my way to the small booth that serves as border control to have my passport checked. There was a dribble of a queue and as luck would have it, one of the passport control officers -a former boyfriend of our...
Tuesday May 15, 2012
The sad fallout from holiday balcony deaths in Spain
At a central London underground station late at night three very tipsy middle-aged people swayed precariously on an escalator ahead of me, and then without warning, the woman pitched forward and fell down several steps. Thanks to the speedy reactions of another passenger her likely continued descent was blocked but she suffered nasty cuts and bruises.
Meanwhile in Majorca yet another...
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Why Spaniards tick off other people’s children
In our local park the other day a group of teenagers listlessly kicked a ball about until one youth noticed a portly old man shuffling along the path close by. Grinning at his chums he was on the point of aiming the ball in the pensioner’s direction when all of a sudden a furious male observer came running over, shook...
Tuesday May 1, 2012
Flying by the seat of one’s pants
Now look here. I don’t know which passengers Skyscanner interviewed for its recent ‘perfect seat’ air travel survey, but they’ve got it all wrong.
Having questioned 1000 airline passengers, the flight comparison website concluded that the window seat 6A is the most desirable money can-or in the case of some budget airlines-cannot buy. I’m not at all sure about that. As...
Tuesday May 1, 2012
Where eagles dare
As foreign destinations go, Majorca is rarely feared for its predators although one of my unfortunate hens, Lucky Clucky- perhaps more fittingly, Not-So-Lucky-Clucky- has just been killed by a wily genet. Much as these masked raiders with their long bushy, banded tails and spotted coats look rather appealing, they are complete rotters, often killing purely for sport.
The little devils are...
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Why languages should be compulsory in British schools
In rainy London for a few days and feeling homesick for Spain, I popped by Gail’s bakery in St John’s Wood, for a coffee and croissant and was asked if I had a loyalty card. When I explained that I didn’t because I lived in Majorca, the woman at the counter cheerfully broke into Spanish. She explained that her mother...
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Fraud abroad and the benefit cheats
It seems that Ian Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has a new cause. Having declared battle on benefit cheats in the UK, he has now set his sights on Spain.
According to the government, Spain is the number one country for fraud abroad with many Britons lapping up the sun while falsely claiming to be living in...
Saturday February 4, 2012
Winter Wonderland in Mallorca!
Well what do you know? For the first in 25 years Mallorca has experienced ground snow and the locals just can’t get enough of it. Today we awoke to piles of soft fluffy white snow covering the enture garden, cats, donkeys, henhouse, car…just about everything. The Tramuntanas looked absolutely spectacular in their new pristine winter coat and there wasn’t a...
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