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Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

I’m too sexy for my shirt…

Giles Brown - 27 Feb, 2015 @ 09:00

Incest, folk-dancing and naked calendars: three activities that aren’t recommended

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

The rain man of Istan

Giles Brown - 16 Jan, 2015 @ 09:00

Giles Brown avoids a soaking and finds a new career as a Gondolier

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Happy birthday to me!

Giles Brown - 7 Feb, 2015 @ 09:00

Columnist Giles Brown on his big birthday surprise

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Desperately seeking Santa

Giles Brown - 28 Dec, 2014 @ 12:00

The heart-warming tale of Father Christmas - A.K.A Giles Brown - and the sexy elf

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Call me a road racist but …

Giles Brown - 1 Dec, 2014 @ 09:00

Why the new-style licence plates drive Giles Brown round the bend

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Farewell, old fiend

Giles Brown - 13 Dec, 2014 @ 09:00

Giles Brown on the final demise of his troublesome car

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

13th-century man

Giles Brown - 7 Mar, 2015 @ 09:00

No car, heating or electricity… is this the dark ages?

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

‘Playa’-boy of the western world

Giles Brown - 23 Aug, 2014 @ 09:00

In the first of a two-part series, columnist Giles Brown has the low-down on how to survive Marbella’s beach etiquette

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Part II: Once more unto the beach

Giles Brown - 7 Sep, 2014 @ 09:00

Marbella ‘playa’-boy Giles Brown concludes his two-part series on how to navigate beach etiquette

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Halloween horrors and agave agro

Giles Brown - 21 Nov, 2014 @ 09:00

Columnist Giles Brown on how to deal with trick or treaters and his infamous big plant

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Water, water anywhere?

Giles Brown - 20 Sep, 2014 @ 09:00

Columnist Giles Brown on the weather and Russell Crowe

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

A bridge too far…

Giles Brown - 19 Oct, 2014 @ 09:00

Giles Brown thinks that San Pedro has enough chaos without a new bridge

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear!

Tom Powell - 5 Feb, 2014 @ 12:52

Our man about town was a victim of papal photo-bombing...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Summertime, and the livin’ ain’t easy

Giles Brown - 27 Jul, 2014 @ 09:00

Columnist Giles Brown on tourist woes on the coast

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Recognising Joe Strummer

Giles Brown - 25 Jan, 2013 @ 11:27

Marbella's man-about-town Giles Brown casts his eye over the Spanish news

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear!

Giles Brown - 18 Apr, 2013 @ 11:55

Bingo! - OP columnist Giles Brown achieves a full house with the Spanish police

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear!

Giles Brown - 4 Mar, 2014 @ 19:57

Back in Blighty Giles Brown gets both a drenching and a culture shock

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Big cat diaries and Ebola baloney

Giles Brown - 2 Nov, 2014 @ 09:00

If you think you’ve spotted the Beast of Bodmin it’s only Isis of Istan, Giles’ AWOL black cat

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

The Man-flu Diaries

Giles Brown - 9 Mar, 2014 @ 12:20

Columnist Giles Brown discusses the Spanish love of illness

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear!

Giles Brown - 31 Mar, 2014 @ 16:25

Giles loves his F1, but can't stand the commentators!

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Having a fine time!

Giles Brown - 19 May, 2014 @ 09:00

Olive Press columnist Giles Brown gets on the wrong side of the law

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Dealing with the Marbs high season and its struggles

Carey Camel - 8 Aug, 2014 @ 10:00

Columnist Giles Brown recounts the tales of a battered Brit and projectile weapons

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear!

Giles Brown - 17 Aug, 2014 @ 11:23

In which our man shows he has more bolas than most!

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

TOUR DE FARCE: Last Monday was my final straw with the cyclists

Giles Brown - 21 Jul, 2018 @ 11:10

GRANTED most Monday mornings can prove to be the last straw, especially when I am running late, again, for my radio show and only...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Glitz, glamour and a seething Ronnie Corbett – Giles Brown chronicles his misspent youth as Marbella’s Puerto Banus turns...

Giles Brown - 30 May, 2020 @ 14:00

YOU can easily dismiss ‘The Port’ as full of the wannabes, the It girls, and the has-beens as well as the brash,...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

An idyllic cottage by the lake in Andalucia gave Giles Brown a bit more than he bargained for

Giles Brown - 23 Feb, 2019 @ 09:30

'Lock your doors and windows', advised the Guardia Civil, 'there are desperate Italians on the loose'

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