The next Chinese export looks like it will be 200,000 Hong Kong Chinese coming to live in the UK...

There are too many guns around in Spain for anything living to feel at ease..

I just sent my Modelo100 - the Spanish tax return. I think last year I sent my passport, and this may have been on record? There is always your NIE.

Just had to do ours - I scanned and sent front page of tax return, that did the trick

We had a similar system, except the town water filled the deposito (above ground but we never managed to seal it completely to prevent slugs getting in!) with all the water supplied through the demand valve. This worked well unless there was a power cut - common at one time in the campo. We never dr...

The man in charge of Mercadona gets my pat on the back too.

Organ donation is only possible if the death occurs in hospital as everything starts to deteriorate once the heart stops, unless there is some form of life support. Only around 2% of deaths of willing organ donors are actually suitable, so it seems a lot of fuss for little possibility. The law in Sp...

If you have loved ones you might want to consider the affect on them, in the time of maximum grief and shock having to see you disappear - within a very very short time of death. Having seen the way medical students show no respect for the cadavers they worked on would also put me off.

I don’t find Michael O’Leary a very likeable man, but he has been saying exactly the same thing for a couple of days.

Phase whatever here from Monday - ok on the beach, 4sq m per person, ok to swim etc.

Lots of fining of the (un) masked villain up here.

It seems to me that a substantial minority - if not the majority - of people have taken little notice of what the rules are, so fine tuning is just polititcal posturing. Some here are flapping and twitching about allowing anyone in from anywhere, when the risks will be very low - would anyone having...

And the down side of a hybrid is the horrendous cost of batteries should they need replacing. Paying more for an annual service to get fifteen years cover is worth it.

I am not going to make a hazardous trip into town to fill in the book. I have told them they have made €300 and lost a customer, for service and new car.

Be aware, be very aware. Many businesses have suffered because of the lockdown but be aware that some may try to make up the defecit by sharp practice and deception. I had my car serviced at Labasa Toyota in Cartagena, prior to its first ITV @ 4 years old. The service reception rang me an hour into ...

What a wise move by the UK it was, leaving the EU...

"I am off Chinese food right now, don't trust their ingredients"
What! No more bat in Korean sauce with a monkey brain for starters?

Just normal tickets as far as I could see £84 one way including a bag.

I will be interested to see what the compliance level is when the new law that everyone in Spain must wear a mask when in public is brought in later this week...