WE are in full calçot season. These giant spring onions are cultivated in Valls, near Tarragona and are enjoyed from Figuerès to Fuengirola. At this time of year, people drive for miles
I HAVE noticed a strong trend in recent years, accelerating since the pandemic, for Marbella to become a destination of choice for luxury home purchases. It seemed to me that luxury home
SOMETHING so simple as the stories, the beliefs and the narratives that we tell ourselves, have a crucial part to play in affecting our moods on a long term basis. So, if
A LOT has been written about the new housing law that was introduced at the beginning of 2023. I have offered my own take on this law elsewhere. But not a lot
WE are now powering into the New Year and 2024. Last year may have brought trials and tribulations, a sense of economic worries and concern about the state the world is in.
EIGHT years on and there is seemingly no end in sight for Marbella’s attempts to update its urban planning scheme. In an effort to bring clarity to Marbella’s legendarily dysfunctional planning regime
HAVE you heard of Veganuary? An amalgam of two words Vegan and January, it’s an initiative of supermarkets and influencers to convince people to eat a lot less meat after the festive
MIXED messages are being sent out about the direction of interest rates next year. Money managers seem to think that rates have already been raised too high by the European Central Bank
By Fiyaz Mughal Addiction used to be a word associated with drugs, alcohol, sex or eating. At a very basic level, an addiction is something that causes you to feel that you
THIS year’s return to pre-pandemic levels of tourism has most expats in Spain breathing a sigh of relief. Tourism is, after all, the economic lifeblood of the costas and many other touristic
FROM the bouillabaisse fish soup of Southern France to the biryani rice dishes of South Asia there is a common thread (literally); the dried stigma threads from the crocus flower known as
REAL estate agency awards are a funny thing. Agents want them because it brings prestige and can be used in their marketing materials. And I’m sure that they do have some effect
THE Rubiales-in brigade like to wring their hands and ask – what is the world coming to? What is Spain coming to if, in this famously kiss-happy country, a man cannot give
Recently, I met with some clients who had purchased an off-plan property some time ago for rental income. Of course, this is an attractive option for many people who buy in Spain
SEVILLA is another world, and in high summer that world is a beautiful and lonely inferno. The locals flee to the coast (mostly Huelva) while a few foolhardy tourists run rivers of
WHEN I was first taken to a bullfight in Spain, it was against my will. I had stopped by Sevilla in 1998 and returned with my parents in 2000 to show them
WE receive many varied enquiries from our clients and we thought we would share a few answers in the hopes they may help Olive Press readers too. Q. My wife and I
I CAN and have eaten snake’s blood for lunch and worms for dinner but breakfast is sacred. On a weekend, ideally it would include lashings of Bovril drizzled over hot-buttered brown toast…I
NEW rental laws have come into force, giving even more rights to tenants with the aim of adapting to our current economic climate.The recent changes include a cap on annual rent increases.This
CORDOBA Airport is a non-descript local hub primarily used by small planes. Due to it’s diminutive scale, Malaga and Sevilla airports host most of the international flight routes in the region. So
IT was a statistic that you had to initially rub your eyes to believe.But, according to official figures, Estepona has overtaken Marbella as mainland Spain’s most profitable hotel destination.Now standing at an
DIEGO Velázquez (1599-1660) needs no introduction. Perhaps the best-known painter in Spain’s Golden Age, Velázquez’s paintings became the paragon of excellence for the great Spanish realist and impressionist painters that followed (think:
Short and long-term rental contracts, which best suits your needs? A SHORT-TERM rental contract (known in Spanish as a temporary lease) is one that is signed in the case of what is
IF you found yourself among the commotion on the A-334 north of Almeria on April 24, you are probably wondering what the frenzy was about. Not to worry. It was a drill,
IMAGINE for a moment an individual who witnessed his family burned at the stake for their beliefs. Then, rather than seek revenge, have the fortitude to dedicate his life to a culture
THE Spanish government is preparing a law to ban the sale of internal combustion engines by 2040. It is part of a concerted effort to be the first European government to meet
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