Revealing new book chronicles the founding of the Olive Press, ‘Spain’s most popular expat newspaper’
"A publisher wanted to cut out all the juicy bits so I said no and put it in a draw and only discovered it again
Inside the dinosaur theme park with zip wires, excavation zones and hiking trails coming to Spain’s Costa del Sol
A HUGE ‘Jurassic’ theme park with zip wires and dinosaurs has been announced for the Costa del Sol. The huge development, designed for families, features
Gibraltar’s John Mackintosh Hall theatre to be dismantled and replaced with HUGE 900-seat auditorium
The Queen’s cinema room was proposed for integration into John Mackintosh Hall, but the site will now be kept separate and made free for other
RURAL RETURN: Music, dance and theatre festival run by Brit in rural inland town celebrates fifth anniversary
Me Vuelves Lorca is held in a beautiful, handcrafted stone amphitheatre which was built by the local community in 2013 around an ancient corn-threshing circle
Javea’s first-ever Gay Pride parade declared a ‘huge success’ after British participants encounter only one old man ‘growling from a balcony’
THE first Gay Pride parade in the whole of the Marina Alta region of Alicante has been declared a ‘huge success’. A raucous samba band
REVEALED: Amy Winehouse wrote three songs from Back to Black while holidaying in Alicante
FEW knew that when the soulful, heart-wrenching vocals of Back to Black hit top-ten charts around the world in 2006, they would turn Amy Winehouse
SLOW TRAVEL: Run down your rev count in Ronda where slow travel is the new mantra
In their first piece for the Olive Press, Princeton student interns Regina Lankenau and Maya Eashwaran discover how Ronda has perfected the art of unstructured
Instagram sensation in northern Spain turns out to be TOXIC lake
A turquoise lake in Spain popular among Instagrammers has been revealed to be toxic and ‘dangerous’ to swimmers. Monte Neme, in northern Spain, appears to
PICTURED: Grisly fate of Pamplona bulls during Spain’s famous San Fermin festival
THE grisly fate of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona have been revealed. Each day of the iconic fiesta sees the
American football star caught jumping over bulls at Spain’s San Fermin as veterans SLAM festival as ‘TOO SAFE’
This year’s week-long San Fermin festival in Pamplona, has actually been criticised for ‘not being dangerous enough’
US tourist was taking ‘selfie’ when hospitalised by bull in Pamplona
A US tourist has revealed he was taking a ‘selfie’ when a bull gored him in the neck at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival. Jaime Alvarez,
PICS: The Hogueras de San Juan in Alicante were ‘insane’, but that’s why we love Spain, writes Joshua Parfitt
There are few religious festivals you can bring a towel to. There are even fewer you can insult a fireman at. The Fogueres de San
FOR CHRIST’S SAKE: Completion of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia in trouble AGAIN as 3,000 residents fear their homes will become building site
A RESIDENT’S association has begun legal action to stop the completion of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia. Construction of the emblematic cathedral stalled after architect Antoni
WATCH: American gored in neck and teen bruises spine as annual San Fermin bull run begins in Spain’s Pamplona
Each day six bulls and accompanying steers are released, before the animals take on matadors in public fights in the afternoon
The Olive Press reviews an illegal art exhibition at one of the Costa Blanca’s most-haunted houses
IT was one of Spain’s most sought-after hotels. Elites from across Spain came to relax in its hot springs and dine upon plush carpets beneath
BY GEORGE! Statue of England’s patron saint restored in Spain after infamous botched restoration job
Authorities fined the church and the crafts business €6,010 each
IN PICS: The winning dishes of Masterchef 7, filmed in UNESCO-honoured Denia on the Costa Blanca
THESE are the dishes that won 26-year-old fishmonger Aleix Puig Masterchef 2019. The seventh edition of the hit show was held in Denia and featured
Abandoned homes photography competition launched on Costa del Sol with hundreds of euros up for grabs
Banks dished out loans to developers, who weren’t concerned if projects flopped, which resulted in €175 billion of wasted housing being abandoned
OBVS: Spain the number ONE dream relocation destination for Brits
The vote, carried out by removal company AnyVan, pitted the southern European favourite against the likes of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Dubai
El Mirador de Castillo in Benidorm demolished before tourist season in search of ruins the town hall ‘doesn’t know’ it will still find
ONE of Benidorm’s most iconic landmarks has been partially demolished in search of ruins that authorities ‘don’t know’ if they will find. Tourists, families and
Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman holds meet and greet for fans in Spain’s Andalucia THIS WEEKEND
The Gold performer will treat revellers to an exciting mix of tunes by David Bowie, Iggy Pop and of course Spandau Ballet
British tea set recovered from 150-year-old shipwreck on show at unique Costa Blanca maritime exhibition
AN exhibition displaying British-made plates, bowls and a tea set from a steamship that sank off the Costa Blanca 150 years ago has opened in
UNEARTHED: First Roman olive oil press EVER on Spain’s Costa del Sol as huge archaeology park planned
The area will become the largest archaeology park on the Costa del Sol and plans to be a major tourism and cultural attraction
OH MY GOGH: Gun Van Gogh ‘killed himself with’ to be auctioned off while southern Spain tour of his work continues
He died in a field near the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, where the revolver was located some 70 years later
PALM BEACH: The curious pop history of the Costa del Sol’s most famous chiringuito freshly refurbished for summer
Its owner helped create one of the most successful songs of the early 2000s