We all know how frustrating it can be trying to penetrate a new society -particularly when you are challenged by the language. The obvious answer, here, is to take up Spanish lessons! The trouble is that, whilst it’s easy to find a teacher or a class to join with other Britons to learn grammar and […]

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I am looking for inspiration. Actually, as a male this is probably better translated as a desperate and pitiful cry for help! The children are now on holiday. And, being Spain, this means summer holidays that last for a terrifying and horribly sustained three months - an eternity for working parents and probably even worse […]

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To our great pride, our son Alexander has just passed his Bachillerato with a very creditable 7.5 average mark. This is more than sufficient to allow him now to undertake Selectivo. The latter comprises three days of university selection exams (this week!), the average mark of which is aggregated with that achieved in his Bachillerato.

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I am curious as to how many fellow Britons in Spain have felt a strong sense of predictable inevitability as Spain slides inexorably into recession? I have been writing about the probability of a recession for the last couple of years and yet I have been treated as a complete fool by my Spanish friends […]

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Spain has always been a second home to me – somewhere that I visited innumerable times during my childhood when I came to visit my mother, who has lived here for forty years.
During that time, I saw only a superficial land that seemed dedicated solely to tourism. Like so many people, I neither saw nor […]

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