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Afflatus: An outsider’s Andalucia
March 12, 2010 | Features
Part One: An introduction to Arriate by Olive Press writer A.N. Maier, describing his version of the hillside town
Living under the axe
March 10, 2010 | Features News Feature
EXCLUSIVE: With the April 9 demolition deadline looming, the ‘Albox Nine’ were visited by MP Chris Bryant to discuss the crisis. However, amid the political furore, that is making headlines back home, Andrew Pearce discovers how easy it is to forget the real people, with real struggles at the heart of this wretched affair
Scammers beware!
March 4, 2010 | News Feature
The arrest of auctioneer John White and four others who attempted to retrieve their valuable property is a reminder of what lurks on the Costa del Crime. In light of this incredulous escapade Andrew Pearce picks out some of the best scams to beware of
Help! My neigbour’s hedge is blocking my view
March 1, 2010 | Features
Marbella lawyer Rafael Berdaguer gives you tips on how to unblock your view
Gibraltar rocks
March 12, 2010
Forget sunburned ex-pats and cheap booze, Jon Clarke discovers that the Med’s little Britain has had a makeover
End of the love affair? Not likely
February 15, 2010 | Features
A recent poll claimed that up to three quarters of British expatriates in Spain have considered moving home in the current downturn. Andrew Pearce and Jon Clarke discover that the truth is actually rather different
Rural peace? You’re barking mad!
February 10, 2010 | Features
A sleepless night ruined by baying dogs while staying in the campo, inspired David Baird to write his latest novel Don’t Miss The Fiesta! The message: Be very careful before you buy in the Andalucian outback!
The Wild West comes into its own
February 4, 2010 | Features
After a decade of downmarket British occupation, now Alhaurin el Grande is slowly returning to the days when it was known as the ‘Garden of Allah’ by the Moors and the ‘Garden of Eden’ by writer Gerald Brenan
My naked angel
February 1, 2010 | Features
It is 70 years since seminal novel Darkness at Noon – inspired by the Spanish Civil War – was first published. Matthew Pritchard recounts how erotic photographs of a naked lady may have prevented the execution of its author Arthur Koestler by fascist troops
Does it costa bit more in Spain?
January 27, 2010 | Features
For most people, living in Spain certainly trumps life back in the UK, but is it still as cheap as we once thought it was? Andrew Pearce and Asha Stuttard whipped out their calculators, pencils and notepads to shed further light on the price-playing field.
Highway to heaven
January 21, 2010 | Features
Editor Jon Clarke takes a culinary tour of Cordoba now the new motorway has finally opened
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The January hangover
January 19, 2010
As if the rains and floods weren’t enough, now we’ve got to face the ‘Cuesta de Enero’ or ‘January climb’, explains Gaspar Cuesta, of Hispalense language school
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I am the Med
February 25, 2010
Writer Bob Maddox imagines what it has been like to be the world’s greatest body of water
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“My local mountain hotel is to be renamed Harbour Lights and have Jacques Cousteau-themed rooms!”
January 15, 2010
Karl Smallman reveals how good humour and community spirit beat the floods in his town
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On top of the world
January 13, 2010
One of Europe’s highest resorts, for the first time ever there are more than 100kms of runs in the Sierra Nevada, writes Jon Clarke
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Extra virgin elixir of life
January 8, 2010
Not just fabulous on toast and salads, olive oil can help you live longer. As the olive picking season begins, Andrew Pearce and Jon Clarke discover that Andalucia’s world-beating olive oil was not just the world’s first example of branding, but how many of its century-old techniques still survive to this day
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Hold the front page!
January 1, 2010
The Olive Press predicts issues likely to dominate Spanish news this year
