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La Pista a La Playa

Blogs, Josh Taylor's Spain For Pleasure  •  3 Comments

Ski in the morning and sunbathe on the beach in the afternoon!

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Riding Mr Henderson’s railway with his titled descendants

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle, Blogs  •  6 Comments

My brief encounter with two British peers on a rainy day in Ronda has rekindled my sizzle

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Giles Brown – Loud & Clear

Blogs, Giles Brown  •  2 Comments

Bingo! – OP columnist Giles Brown achieves a full house with the Spanish police

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Hairy moment with a Gibraltar monkey (on video)

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle, Blogs  •  0 Comments

OP blogger Belina Beckett has a close encounter with the Barbary macaques on the Rock

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Operatic arias in San Pedro

Blogs, Morris Bishop  •  0 Comments

Morris Bishop reviews the first concert given by by the newly formed Canto Lirica

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Sevilla’s indomitable spirit

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  2 Comments

Right now Sevilla, Andalucia and Spain at large is a place where you can feel the civil unrest bubbling underneath the surface

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Deirdre and Me: To the letter

Blogs, Michael O'Reilly's Deirdre and Me  •  0 Comments

In the last installment of our Deirdre & Me serialisation, Michael O’Reilly talks about scoldings and quiz nights


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Weird art and bloody-minded peacocks

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle, Blogs  •  6 Comments

If you’ve ever wanted to step into a Salvador Dalí painting, this is the surreal thing!


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Equine outcasts teach us a thing or two

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  0 Comments

My life was fairly standard before moving to Seville… writes OP blogger Mary Biles


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All aboard La Sala El Tren in Granada

Blogs, Josh Taylor's Spain For Pleasure  •  0 Comments

While there exists a great deal of quality live music in Granada, finding it, from time to time, can be a trying task


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Cadiz Carnaval: A step-by-step guide

Blogs, Josh Taylor's Spain For Pleasure  •  1 Comments

Given that this year marked his hat-trick, Josh Taylor likes to think that he has expertise on this discernibly anarchic event


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It’s as simple as taking a shower

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  2 Comments

Are you a die hard consumer? What are the deal breakers in your life that you couldn´t live without?


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Stuff Saint Valentine’s Day!

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle, Blogs  •  2 Comments

What is it about St. Valentine’s Day that makes normally sane people do crazy stuff?


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What’s your story? Flamenco glory

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  1 Comments

Each person has their own unique series of events that have transformed their dream of living in Andalucia into a real life Spanish odyssey


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To be or not to be a Guiri, that is the question

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  12 Comments

My name is Mary and I am a Guiri. There, I´ve said it now, it´s out there in the open, but it´s something I´ve been fighting for the last two and half years


It’s as simple as taking a shower thumbnail

It’s as simple as taking a shower

Blogs, Mary Biles' Guiri Eye View  •  2 Comments

Are you a die hard consumer? What are the deal breakers in your life that you couldn´t live without?

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Cake eaters required!

Help raise funds for a Costa del Sol charity on World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

Blogs, Michael O'Reilly's Deirdre and Me »

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What the Dickens

Michael O’Reilly gets a snap shot of human life when working in his bookshop

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle, Blogs »

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Please don’t call me a bl***er

As I blog less than once a week does that make me verbally constipated?

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“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. 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. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain. 33,000 issues a fortnight are printed plus up to 100,000 downloaded online giving an estimated readership of around 300,000 people per month.

From The Archives »

Bus driver overcome by heroin fumes

September 18, 2008 | Andalucia

A BUS driver was forced to make an unscheduled stop at his local hospital emergency unit after being overcome by heroin fumes from drugs smoked by passengers.

It stinks!

August 7, 2007 | Andalucia

The stench of corruption takes a break as Almuñecar binmen go on strike and methane gas escapes from Granada landfill site

Drugs queen

February 29, 2012 | News in Brief

A woman dubbed the ‘Ronda Queen’ who paid drugs mules 500 euros to swallow bags of cocaine in the Caribbean to bring back to Spain has been arrested.

The history of Los Merinos, as told in a dozen plus stories since November 2006

May 13, 2008 | Andalucia

IT has been a long and drawn out saga, which goes back to the re-zoning of the area of Los Merinos in 1992. While the plans by Ronda town hall were later ratified by the Junta, restrictions on what exactly could be built on the land have always been tough.

David Lynch bringing art expo to Andalucia

February 13, 2011 | Andalucia, Lead

Blue Velvet director is launching new art exhibition

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