Loraine Gostling is not the Costa Blanca’s biggest football fan, but does have a soft spot for Jordan Henderson’s...
ALL hail to the men in red shorts!
A fitting start to this week's page 30 as I was pondering on the dangers and hazards...
Javea Connect admin Loraine Gostling tries to keep her mind off the weather… but can’t find anything positive about...
Weather has been awful, eh? Yes I know an understatement – so I have decided to leave that subject to those braver than I,...
Loraine in Spain
SO I sat myself down on Sunday evening and started to do my usual pondering on what I should write about in my column...
Loraine Gostling tells the epic history behind Spain’s Moros y Cristianos festival, all from a crumbling laptop
OK so.. I have poured 5kg of crushed ice in a waterproof cooler bag and placed it strategically between my knees and my poor...
COLUMN: A swingers request on Costa Blanca Facebook group sends admin scratching their heads at the rulebook, writes Loraine...
Before I begin, I just have to give you a quick update on the new KFC in Ondara (avid readers will remember last week’s...
Javea Connect admin Loraine Gostling reveals her moonlighting as a pantomime actress as Adrian: A Fairytale of Happing Endings...
This week, I am removing my Javea Connect hat and becoming a little more fruity with you all!
When I say ‘fruity’, I am actually...
Alicante Airport pandemonium was just about worth it for an English bowl of jellied eels, writes Loraine Gostling
Oh well, it was only 55 minutes, so we could browse the Toblerone and smell the latest designer aromas at leisure in Duty Free
As the dreaded ‘C’ word rears its festive head, Loraine Gostling reminds us that C also stands for Charity
The ‘C’ word is just around the corner and, for the past couple of weeks on Javea Connect, the annual appeals have started to...
The Original LOL
NOW most of you reading this will have been ‘lolling’ for years - firstly, back when it became cool to abbreviate every possible word...
With Javea Connect Facebook members getting nasty over a new restaurant, Loraine Gostling turns to John Bercow for advice
So, what has been going on these last weeks with the happy ‘connectors’ on my Facebook group?
What makes people talk to each other? What...
Despite a family visit to the UK, Javea Connect’s Loraine Gostling is still stuck in her Facebook group complaint...
This week I am meandering from that green and pleasant land we know as the United (although now rather Untied) Kingdom.
But, as admin on...
Seize the Day
I PONDER a lot. I waste time on musings and wondering about stuff, and try to look at things from different points of view,...
Cruising along the Costa Blanca can be more terrifying than you think, writes Loraine Gostling
I had never been a risk-taker, I was pretty comfortable financially, I liked my job and everything in life was settled and safe, but just a little boring
Arguing with social media idiots just isn’t worth your time, writes columnist Loraine Gostling
HI again Costa Blancans, and welcome to yet another one of my meanders about what’s forefront of my mind when I sit to write...
Loraine Gostling’s weather-won advice on how to prepare for a gota fría
My ponderings over the last week or so obviously took me to floods and the impact of the extreme weather we both enjoy and...