INTERNATIONAL Book Day and Saint George's Day combined, with its huge street fair heaped with reading material and flowers across the whole of Catalunya, comes but once a year – so, if you missed the weekend's...
BRIGHT skies and warm weather may not have been our only reason for moving to Spain, or even have figured among our top 50 priority reasons, but they certainly help.
CLEAN AIR is an underrated commodity, but one that keeps rural tourism en vogue and goes hand in hand with the war on climate change – as well as CO2 and NOx emissions trapping heat into the earth's atmosphere,...
THE WORLD'S oldest man has died just three weeks before his 113th birthday, leaving 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, his family has confirmed.
FOR the second time in less than four years, Spain is home to the world's oldest man – Saturnino, who is 112-and-a-half, now holds the title after Emilio Flores from Puerto Rico passed away just over a week ago.
FORMER Spain football team captain and World Cup goalkeeper Iker Casillas is helping tackle a giant forest fire in Castilla y León and rake up withered scrubland to prevent flare-ups where it has not yet reached.
THIS year's bank holiday over the 'Feast of the Assumption' on August 15 is one of several that have been 'lost' due to falling on a weekend, but some regions will be moving it to the following...
THE BORDER between Spain and Portugal will open from Saturday, and from Monday, bars and shops in the Comunidad Valenciana will be permitted to stay open until the 22.00 curfew.
A 'QUALITY of life' survey among residents in Spain's biggest cities shows attitudes have changed since the start of the pandemic, according to national consumer organisation OCU, which conducted the...
THOSE of you who already speak Spanish know this, but those of you who are still learning may not have realised the language has no words of its own beginning with a 'K' or a 'W'.