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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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


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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!


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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


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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


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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.


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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

The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain