Nazareno barefootSemana Santa en Sevilla: primeras procesiones y detalles históricos Please excuse the tardiness of this blog post. In changing phone companies, which here in Spain are considerably cheaper if you consolidate your mobile(s), landline and ADSL with the same provider, we hit a…

The port of Malaga is one of the top 50 most-visited cruise ports in the world, according to new figures. Malaga comes in at number 44 in the list of the ports which receive the largest number of visiting cruise ship passengers. This is especially good news with the recent opening of the glamorous…

Yay, my favourite season of the year is here! The rain has stopped, finally, after weeks and weeks of endless downpours, showers, drizzle, thunder, lightning, puddles, wellies and waterproofs - and, of course, floods, which have affected unfortunate communities living near rivers such as the…

GUEST BLOG: by CHRIS CHAPLOW Photos by Fredy Torra and Michelle Chaplow I don’t remember how I first heard about TED, the movement which brings together eminent speakers with ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’, about five years ago - perhaps I just came across the website on the Internet by chance. The event…

  Great news for Seville's medieval heritage! A few months ago, I posted about the uncertain future of Seville's medieval shipyards, the Atarazanas. Built by Rey Alfonso X in 1252, this beautiful, historic building, which consists of seven areas with huge vaulted arches, had been mooted as…

It's a new month on the blog today, and here in Andalucia we're struggling to start the week after a four-day weekend (to celebrate the anniversary of the region gaining its status as an autonous community of Spain). The weather here is not fabulous at the moment, with cold, wind and rain all over…

The Andalucia Hymn - La Bandera Blanco y Verde Continuing our theme of videos about Andalucia, what could be more fitting on Dia de Andalucia than the late adored copla singer Rocio Jurado (from Chipiona, in Cadiz) singing the Himno de Andalucia?     Here's the English translation…

If you've ever considered buying a property here in Spain (or anywhere else abroad), or perhaps you're in the process now, the FCO (UK Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office), in association with property media expert BuyAssociation, has produced an excellent video which covers all the key…

Last Saturday I went to the Cadiz Carnaval with my family. I've always wanted to go, in the nine years I've been living here, but I missed the small window of opportunity between arriving and having children. Now the little blighters are old enough to appreciate it (nearly-four and six years old…

Last night was the biggest night of the year for the Spanish movie industry: the Goya Awards 2013. The nominations for the 27th awards focussed on a few movies, one of which was Grupo 7 (Unit 7), a police thriller set and filmed in Seville. Considered the joint-favourite along with silent black-…