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Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

I’m too sexy for my shirt…

Giles Brown - 27 Feb, 2015 @ 09:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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 - 17 Aug, 2014 @ 11:23

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

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

What NOT to do at your office Christmas party in Spain

Giles Brown - 21 Dec, 2018 @ 12:00

As the work Christmas party season is upon us, Giles Brown looks back at some of his most (unfortunately) memorable bashes

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

It’s a New Dawn, it’s a New Day…

Giles Brown - 17 Jan, 2021 @ 14:22

NORMALLY when we head into a New Year, my Social Media feeds are full of posts claiming ‘This will be my year’!, ‘Moving on...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Giles Brown answers a frequently asked question, who left the dogs out?

Giles Brown - 3 Aug, 2019 @ 09:30

Bye Bye Bailey. You were such a good boy xx

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Giles Brown recalls his 1980s run-in with the Costa del Crime

Giles Brown - 26 May, 2018 @ 11:49

AFTER the shocking San Pedro slaying of a suspected drug lord earlier this month, it seems Marbella could be heading back to the dark...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Giles Brown has had enough of the virtual breathing workshops and online psychobabble of Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

Giles Brown - 18 Apr, 2020 @ 11:00

What could be more inspiring than the sight of a 50-something male in a hooded dressing gown muttering obscure rock lyrics to himself

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Giles Brown is stuck in ‘festive no man’s land’

Giles Brown - 5 Jan, 2019 @ 09:00

CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve made it through to another year, as well as getting through that testing time between Christmas and new year when you aren’t...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

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

Giles Brown - 7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:56

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...

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Going to blazes

Giles Brown - 31 May, 2015 @ 10:00

Giles Brown escapes an inferno and for once it wasn’t his sex that was on fire

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