Browse Category

Columnists - Page 7

The Shining, Jack Nicholson, 1980. ©warner Brothers

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Benny Davis with the 80-something ramblings of an expat in Spain

When I was young, ‘online’ meant pegging your washing out to dry. Never thought that one day this innocent household word would signify the demise of high street shopping. Today, with the

3 Apr, 2021 @ 12:45

Columnists

A heartfelt thanks to surgeons and medical staff in Spain

By Lisa Burgess I HAVE just left Malaga’s Materno Hospital after breast reconstruction surgery. It was a unique experience. The Head of Surgery, Doctor Torres Corpas and his team performed the surgery.

28 Mar, 2021 @ 19:15

Columnists·Lead·Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur·National News

Buy your Spanish dream home online with a Zoom viewing

SUN LAWYERS on why the dream of owning a Spanish property in 2021 is very much alive

BRITISH people with their hearts set on buying a Spanish home shouldn’t let coronavirus or Brexit shatter their dreams. Market conditions, technology and innovation continue to make purchasing property in the Costas

28 Mar, 2021 @ 14:15

Columnists·Property·Sponsored

Give us back our freedom without the hefty price tag, says Terenia in Mallorca

IT’S a great feeling to be slowly coming out of lockdown and let’s hope we don’t go backwards! Finally, there seems to be a whiff of positivity in the air as Spain

28 Mar, 2021 @ 12:00

Columnists·Lead·Terenia Taras: Telling it like it is

She’s Dynamite! (literally): Civil War heroine who took the fight to Spain’s men

Dynamite! It’s a form of slang that refers to the essence of something rather than the explosive device. For example, we might say: “Penelope Cruz is a dynamite actress” or “Elton John’s

28 Mar, 2021 @ 11:17

Columnists·Jack Gaioni: Jack's Corner·Lead

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: The ramblings of an 80-something expat

DO you remember the old joke about the boy who wanted to be a train driver, but couldn’t because his eyes were too close together? If you laughed, or even understood the

27 Mar, 2021 @ 16:15

Columnists

TAXING TIMES: Post-Brexit taxes for British resident and non resident property owners in Andalucia

After the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, the right of free movement is not the only thing to have changed for Brits who own or are thinking about buying real

27 Mar, 2021 @ 15:00

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists

Money Matters With Chorus Financial On Why Expats Cannot Retain A Uk Financial Adviser

MONEY MATTERS with CHORUS FINANCIAL on why UK investment values are falling

Money Matters from Chorus Financial answers all your questions on finance, tax, pensions, investments and more here in Spain. This week we received the following question over falling UK investment values from

27 Mar, 2021 @ 14:15

Business & Finance·Columnists·Sponsored

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Benny Davis with the 80-something ramblings of an expat in Spain

Are you a digital doer or a real-life print reader? Although the Olive Press alternates weekly publication of my column between actual print and ether-controlled messages beamed from outer space, my online

20 Mar, 2021 @ 16:15

Columnists

Leap of Faith: Buying a home in Spain

BUYING property overseas can seem like a daunting prospect, especially after Brexit, but it needn’t be. Whether you are looking to make the move to Spain, or you are an expat looking

14 Mar, 2021 @ 16:56

Columnists·Lead·Tancrede de Pola: Mortgage Think Tank

Getting a grip: Accused of faking COVID is a low blow – even for Marbella!

It was the last caller that did it. I was into the final three minutes of ‘Viewpoint’, the live radio show that I host every Tuesday that discusses the ‘issues of the

14 Mar, 2021 @ 15:39

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

POST-BREXIT GOLDEN VISA ADVICE FOR BRITISH PEOPLE AND PROPERTY INVESTORS IN SPAIN

Since the start of 2021, following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, Britons who wish to live, work or buy property in Spain to use as their primary residence or

14 Mar, 2021 @ 12:30

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists·Other News·Property

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Benny Davis with the 80-something ramblings of an expat in Spain

V-DAY SPECIAL JUST been informed my COVID vaccination will happen tomorrow. Wow! Haven’t been so excited since my first sexual experience, handling a set of playing cards once owned by that busty,

13 Mar, 2021 @ 15:45

Columnists

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Mum’s gone to Ireland!

IN a recent rambling, I reported that life as we know it here in Spain was on the edge of total extinction as we are forced to face the fact that empty

6 Mar, 2021 @ 14:15

Columnists

OLD HACK IN THE SUN: Benny Davis with the ramblings of an 80-something expat in Spain

OVER the centuries, us Brits have maintained our traditional stiff upper lip through a multitude of catastrophic situations. Don’t panic, keep calm, keystone foundation words that generations have faithfully adhered to while

28 Feb, 2021 @ 11:15

Columnists

DEAR JENNIFER:- Why do I need to get insurance and funeral plans urgently sorted now?

I personally am feeling very upset about Brexit as no lorries seem to be getting here and English supermarkets are getting emptier and emptier. Let us hope that they will still be

27 Feb, 2021 @ 19:15

Business & Finance·Columnists·Costa Blanca·Sponsored·Valencian Community

The Zen of The Rona: Dealing with the virus involves lots of navel gazing

AS you may or may not be aware, I spent most of last month recovering from what my more streetwise friends refer to as ‘The Rona’. (And no, I still can’t get

14 Feb, 2021 @ 17:27

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Changing times: Coping with the pandemic in Marbella needs ingenuity

AN old proverb says ‘a wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it’. This pandemic has been an enormous struggle for every business. Some

7 Feb, 2021 @ 13:42

Columnists·Lead·Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur

Just wish it was over – a miserable start to 2021 in Spain

WHEN I flippantly mentioned in my last column that I didn’t see many people writing that 2021 would be their year, I didn’t actually think that I would be wishing for the

7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:56

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

It’s a New Dawn, it’s a New Day…

NORMALLY when we head into a New Year, my Social Media feeds are full of posts claiming ‘This will be my year’!, ‘Moving on up’! and many more of the same, all

17 Jan, 2021 @ 14:22

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Justice needed – the problems we face in Spain

By Lisa Burgess GLADSTONE said ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. I say this because I have heard of so many stories of injustice recently British residents being sent back from Spain without

14 Jan, 2021 @ 11:50

Columnists·Lead·Lisa Burgess: Diary of a Restaurateur

‘The best of times, the worst of times’: a look forward to 2021 in Spain by expat councillor on the Costa del Sol

By Bill Anderson, local councillor in Mijas WHAT a year! Are you an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? As we enter 2021, I think we will be all three in equal

3 Jan, 2021 @ 12:16

Bill Anderson: Mijas Matters·Columnists·Lead

All I want for Christmas, ain’t you

YOU may have noticed that we are in December and, as John Lennon famously wrote ‘And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?’ Granted this is 2020, so for the

26 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45

Columnists·Lead

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

20 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Columnists·Lead·National News

ON THE UP: Why are property prices in Marbella still rising?

WHEN the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, homeowners and property developers braced themselves for a drop in housing values, but in the end this didn’t materialise. With the enforced lockdown periods having caused

16 Dec, 2020 @ 21:06

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists·Other News·Property

Spain and Marbella’s underlying property market is inherently solid

TO some, it may seem like we’ve been here before – a serious economic crisis that halts growth and progress and little more than 10 years since the last one. However, this

16 Dec, 2020 @ 14:15

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Columnists·Other News·Property

Previous 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 43 Next

Go toTop