Slow strutting on the catwalk: One woman shares first hand experience at Madrid Fashion week
With fashion such a big business in Spain, Sarah Crozier shares the latest trends from the catwalk at Madrid Fashion week
OPINION: ‘The war on Ukraine is tied to the climate crisis in so many ways’
Martin Tye of Mariposa Energia explores the massive impact of Putin's invasion of Ukraine on the environment.
OPINION: How Spain is outpacing the UK when it comes to women in politics
To mark International Women's Day campaigner Sue Wilson, MBE, explores how UK is falling behind Spain when it comes to political representation.
ANALYSIS: The reasons behind Spain’s property boom and what to expect next
Mark Stücklin of Spanish Property Insight looks at the reasons behind the property boom
How Spain’s Valencia region has become a coastal paradise for wine lovers
Wine tourism is taking off across the region of Valencia. Matthew Desoutter at Simply Spanish Wine takes a look at what's on offer.
TRAVEL SPAIN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 24 hours in ‘España Vacia’
Tempted by some friends to visit their pueblo, Sarah Crozier, makes a weekend journey into ‘España vacÃa’.
REVIEW: One year since Brexit… still not ‘done’
Bremain in Spain campaigner Sue Wilson takes a look back at the first year since Brits were stripped of their EU citizenship and asks ‘Have
Don’t look back: A year of ‘thank heavens we live in Spain and not the UK’
Jo Chipchase, a Brit living in Spain, looks back on 2021, a year marked by the continued pandemic and the fallout from Brexit.
Covid cancelled Christmas: One reader’s experience of a rather different celebration in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands
Faced with spending Christmas alone in a cold flat in Madrid after Covid scuppered a return to see family in Scotland, Sarah Crozier made the
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OLD HACK IN THE SUN: The bell ringing is the sound of happiness and good cheer
By Benny Davis SOME readers may have read my `retirement´ announcement in a previous Olive Press issue. Nearly 90 now and suffering from cancer, it
OLD HACK IN THE SUN – Benny Davis with the ramblings of an 80-something expat in Spain
TIME to place my trusty quill pen alongside the nicotine-stained green eye shield and lay them to rest in my grandad’s old roll-top bureau. Probably
MIJAS MATTERS: Nobody’s perfect
By Bill Anderson I HAVE been off the Olive Press radar for a little while, and was reprimanded by the editor Jon Clarke when he
OPINION: Spain’s Mar Menor shows us why it’s time we cleaned up our act
Martin Tye of Mariposa Energia explores what's gone wrong at Spain's Mar Menor
MR KLIIN: New laundry concept on Spain’s Costa del Sol
EVERYDAY laundry and dry cleaning just got easier with Mr Kliin’s online service between Fuengirola and Estepona. With Mr Kliin you can register online, create
Hemingway, my dad and running the bulls of Pamplona
In a moving tribute to her legendary father, American Deirdre Carney explains why she sorely misses running the bulls at July’s postponed San Fermin festival.
ASTROLOGY: What do the stars have in store for you in July?
With Saturn, bringer of restrictions and life-lessons and Pluto, the roller-coaster planet both retrograde this month, you should feel some welcome relief from the intense
OPINION: Why Spain should bring back ‘botellon’ (and let young people meet in groups to drink outside)
Leah Pattem argues that the Spanish tradition of botellon, a practice that has become much maligned by authorities across Spain, is actually a really good
Discovering a Secret Paradise in the Serrania de Ronda, inland Malaga in southern Spain
There is a secret paradise deep in the hills above the Costa del Sol, as writer Jason Luban discovers.
ASTROLOGY: What do the stars have in store for you in June?
Astrologer Leticia Parmer shares her predictions for June.
How an epic bicycle journey across southern Spain revealed some surprising delights
When British traveller Chris Atkin set out to cross southern Spain making a 1,300 km route between Valencia to Gibraltar by bicycle, he didn’t know
BE AWARE: The issues facing SL limited company directors in Spain
Lawyer Antonio Flores of Lawbird in Marbella on the SL limited company debts - and directors’ personal responsibility
OPINION: More needs to be done to tackle Spain’s air pollution problem
In this week’s ‘green column’, Martin Tye insists it time Spain tackled its air pollution problem. No smoke without fire – this is a well
Food for thought: Is chorizo in paella really such a bad thing?
THE other day, while treating myself to a paella in Valencia’s Plaça del Mercat, I asked a passing waiter for alioli. The horror on the
Travel in the time of Covid: What it’s like to be the only hotel guest in one of Spain’s most touristy cities
DURING a brief period last autumn when travel around Spain was not restricted, Madrid-based American Deirdre Carney made a once in a lifetime trip to
Star of Channel 4’s New Life in the Sun pens first column for the Olive Press
GREETINGS readers! Lisa Burgess here, newly minted restaurateur and now Olive Press columnist. Just to recap, in case you missed me on TV this year,
Vintage Valencia
BEFORE we embarked on our vintage voyage I needed one essential item for the walk, a hat. Take note… survival kit for summer in Valencia