Festive fun in Spain? Yule be lucky!
SO where will you be unwrapping your socks and chocs this Yuletide? Will yours be a ‘Feliz Navidad’ or do you still think the Brussels sprouts are greener on the other side
Requiem for the Christmas card
I DON’T know about you but I’ve got three solitary Christmas cards to display on my mantelpiece this Christmas. It’s nothing like ye old yuletide’s past when cards were sent from ‘The
Christmas comes early in Spain
TINY turkeys, trimmed-down Xmas puds, Rule of Six-sized boxes of crackers … Mini-mas, as COVID Christmas 2020 has pessimistically been coined, was shaping up to be the kind of gig Scrooge and
Knight in a Safari Suit: Sir David Attenborough’s soothing voice doesn’t overcome his stark message
HE’S too modest for shining armour but Sir David Attenborough is a true hero of our times writes Belinda Beckett I WAS looking forward to switching off from Covid coverage this month
Bears do it
THE dental check-up, check. The farmacia for winter meds, check. The Gibraltar shop for Marmite, mint sauce and Coleman’s Mustard Powder, check. Six months supply of kitty litter, check. Not forgetting the
First coronavirus laid waste to our lifestyles, now it’s invading our language, writes Belinda Beckett
HOW’S your New Normal working out? If, like me, you don a visor over your face mask like a medieval knight of old every time you step out of the front door,
You won’t find Bambi in our neck of the woods despite Gucci’s daft fashion trailer, writes Belinda Beckett
I EMPATHISE with my home town of Brighton where the locals have been begging lockdown day trippers to ‘Please Stay Away’. There were more beach brollies thrust into the pebbles last bank
COVID-19: The Carrefour carers saved Belinda Beckett’s bacon when she was down to limp lettuce and her last drop of Larios
EVERYONE else may be box set bingeing, social notworking or writing their novels. I wish. We spent the first week of lockdown watching a matchstick man pushing a shopping trolley across a
Long before Antonio Banderas, another hot Spanish actor was the toast of Hollywood and he came from the Campo de Gibraltar, writes Belinda Beckett
CALLE Actor Antonio Moreno at the back of Mercadona is not the most beautiful street in Los Barrios
Boris Johnson is up to his butt in a scatological Catalan nativity tradition, writes Belinda Beckett
This year Boris is among 40 new famous faces along with climate activist Greta Thunberg, PP President Pablo Casado and tennis ace Novak ?jokovic
Wheelchair Barbie and her gender-neutral grandkids are nothing new writes Belinda Beckett
Today Barbie is the epitome of diversity with over 100 personas and counting.
If you can’t stand the heat you can always take inspiration from the animal kingdom … or not, writes Belinda Beckett
Luckily we humans can cool off at the turn of a shower tap but storks and vultures have a yuckier way to stave off the August heat...
A ripped Roman hero and his ‘pets’ get Belinda Beckett’s roar of approval
I’m not sure what the Me Too movement would have to say about him stealing the girdle of Hippolyta
Three incredible secret beaches in Spain’s Andalucia to visit this weekend
They’re public beaches just begging to be enjoyed in June when you can almost have them to yourself
Belinda Beckett raises a toast to the sherry merry month of May in Spain, with its free-flowing booze and outdoor eating
With barrels of rebujito hitched to the back of the tractor-drawn wagons you can refresh yourself as you walk/dance/stagger along the route
Becoming auntie to a herd of stray cats in southern Spain is harder than you think, writes Belinda Beckett
But the whole idea of being a colony auntie or uncle is that you have gained the cats’ trust, probably by feeding them
A collection of the best Brexit memes
Brexit or not (and when), great British humour will always rule the waves
KISS AND TELL: From cave mamas to world records, Belinda Beckett chronicles the history of the snog
Belinda Beckett brings you the ‘pucker’ guide to kissing for Valentine’s month
SAVE THE DATE: Unmissable events to put in your 2019 diary
Belinda Beckett looks into the immediate future and discovers it’s not all bad
Clinically obese fur-wearing smoker faces competition from flying robots
If Santa has been keeping up with the news at his North Pole toy factory, he won’t have found much to ho-ho-ho about
Five hilarious yet brilliant presents that NEED to be on your Christmas wish list this year
THIS Christmas, the average European will travel 190 miles on five Christmas shopping trips of four hours each, attend three Christmas parties, suffer three hangovers and sit down at the family table
5 Christmas presents your family won’t forget
Forget Black Friday - Belinda Beckett has the pressie shopping in the bag
Sunrise on the Rock
Belinda Beckett looks forward to meeting her favourite breakfast TV presenter in the flesh
Why you shouldn’t write off Algeciras just yet
If Lonely Planet authors had been passing through during Algeciras Entremares earlier this month, they’d be in a flurry to update
Gibraltar’s changing street names leave the common tourist scratching their head
It’s not a big place to get lost in but things can take a complicated turn in a bilingual territory where most streets have two names
Five books based in or near Spain’s Andalucia that are a MUST read this summer
Grab a garden chair and dive into some ‘non-escapist’ literature set in exotic locations down the road A Vineyard in Andalucia (2017), Maria Duenas Setting: Jerez If you’re partial to sherry,