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Save Erasmus!

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The possible bankruptcy of the Erasmus programme was something that hit a nerve with me…

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The mighty Camino de Santiago: The Highlights

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With films about the Camino de Santiago emerging all over the world, it is more popular than ever

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The mighty Camino de Santiago

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Olive Press blogger Katie Sims is flirting with the idea of the Camino de Santiago

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So, you think you know everything about San Fermín?

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This fiesta is known worldwide. It’s Pamplona’s biggest event of the year. But do you really know what it’s all about?

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Have you been in Portugal?

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As a teacher of English in Spain, reading the news recently that Spain ranks lowest in English proficiency in the whole of Europe brought me to despair

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Furry faces are transforming fundraising

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Here are a few hairy faces from Pamplona. If you laugh, you have to donate. If you don’t laugh, you have to donate because at least that’ll make you smile

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Music is all around…

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Spain is full of music – it’s deep within their artistic culture


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Fast-forward in the Pyrenees

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The Pyrenees is transformed for summer. Bears, snakes, ice-cold rivers and bemused locals


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A love affair with tortilla de patatas: A recipe for disaster?

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I don’t know about you but one of the things I love most about Spain is the food


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Look up, it’s Granada!

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Granada requires a neck with 360-degree movement, some billowing hippy trousers and an empty tapas-hungry stomach


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The shifting streets of Seville

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In true Semana Santa style, there was rain. When there is rain, the processions are postponed and people weep in disappointment


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I’m not your media naranja

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Tu media naranja: your other half, your better half, your soul mate


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Solidarity in Pamplona

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Public sector workers heatedly debated their rights. They wanted paralysis, impact and an element of mayhem


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Romance in Bilbao

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The romance echoes over the cobbled streets, past the black rimmed shop windows and streams down the sparkling bridge-laced river to the impressive Guggenheim Museum


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Skiing in Spain – The next big thing

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It’s all downhill now for Olive Press blogger Katie Sims


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I’m not your media naranja

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Tu media naranja: your other half, your better half, your soul mate

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Festival Tres Sesenta invades

This carefully thought-out and intelligently executed festival marked a big moment for the music scene in the unassuming city of Pamplona

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Blood-covered monsters and solar panels – Carnival in Navarra!

The carnivals of Navarra are almost prehistoric in ritual and rural legend

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A lover of things in Madrid

Madrid is an unassuming capital. Flying over the city a few weeks ago this pilgrim watched it emerge suddenly from roads that twist and turn like ribbons, following a patchwork of brown, olive countryside

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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 »

The gasman cometh to Spain

August 22, 2011 | Andalucia, Malaga

Pensioners conned out of thousands as bogus gas men go on the march

Don’t ruin Ronda’s valley, says former mayor

December 29, 2011 | Andalucia, Malaga

New mayoress insists that new freight line will not carve its way through Llano de la Cruz valley but stay on existing line

Volunteer valour on the Costa del Sol

September 4, 2012 | Lead2, Malaga

Hundreds of expats offer their support to those affected by the devastating fires

Three ski workers injured in Sierra Nevada resort

November 18, 2006 | Granada

IN the run-up to the ski season, the slopes of the Sierra Nevada are alive with activity. Centursa, the management company of the ski station has committed to a December 1st opening of the ski slopes, weather permitting. In the meantime, fifty snow cannons have been put into action in order to create enough of [...]

Romance in Bilbao

March 23, 2012 | Blogs, Katie Sims in Pamplona

The romance echoes over the cobbled streets, past the black rimmed shop windows and streams down the sparkling bridge-laced river to the impressive Guggenheim Museum

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