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JACKS CORNER: Emergency Services on the Costa del Sol just got better

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 5 May, 2023 @ 11:18

IF you found yourself among the commotion on the A-334 north of Almeria on April 24, you are probably wondering what the frenzy was...

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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: The controversy in a small Valencian village over plans for a massive solar...

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 27 Jan, 2023 @ 11:50

IT was described as ‘the first and only solar extracting and pumping station in Europe’ and, from the moment it was operational, it was...

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James Bond inspired by iconic expat and British spy Alan Hillgarth who lived in Mallorca

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 11 Sep, 2022 @ 17:00

The author confessed ‘the Bond character is a compound of all the secret agents I knew'

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SEEDS OF HISTORY: SCIENTISTS USING OLIVE SEEDS TO PROVE BIBLE STORIES

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 10 Jul, 2022 @ 14:58

OLIVES and Spain! Spain and olives! It’s no surprise to those of us who live here that the two are virtually synonymous. Chances are...

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Wind of change: Two sides of the ecologist movement clash as Spain debates renewable energy

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 10 Apr, 2022 @ 15:00

OUCH! Another electric bill arrived today as more evidence of the skyrocketing price of energy. Electricity costs have quadrupled - yes quadrupled! - from February...

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How British expat miners and a dozen chickens lead to Spain’s great love affair with football

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 17 Feb, 2019 @ 10:00

Jack Gaioni uncovers the more absurd origins of the beautiful game

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Did gold-greedy Romans kick-off climate change in Spain?

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 16 Feb, 2015 @ 09:00

Columinst Jack Gaioni takes a look at Las Medulas as an example of what the Romans did for us

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Santayana said it!

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 19 Dec, 2014 @ 09:00

The sayings of the late, great Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, are an inspiration in these troubled times, writes Jack Gaioni

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Viva Roma!

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 21 Oct, 2014 @ 09:00

Jack Gaioni unearths the best and brightest ‘Spanish sons’ who made it big in ancient Rome, setting the literary and intellectual agenda for many centuries to follow

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The legal battle that restored Spain’s claim to the biggest ever underwater bounty

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 21 Sep, 2014 @ 09:00

Jack Gaioni explores modern-day treasure hunters, are they pirates or archaeologists?

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Antequera: The town that’s ‘all heart’

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 11 Aug, 2014 @ 12:00

The town surrounded by Andalucía’s Big Three cities is also at the centre of a ‘love triangle’, writes Jack Gaioni

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What the Dickens?

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 30 Jun, 2014 @ 08:30

Columnist Jack Gaioni takes a rather unusual ride to an eccentric event centered around tweed in Madrid

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In Cordoban Skies… How a Moorish daredevil made aviation history

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 14 Jun, 2014 @ 08:30

Columnist Jack Gaioni explores the history of flight in Spain

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Where did your dinner really come from?

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 2 Jun, 2014 @ 09:00

Columnist Jack Gaioni explores the real link between countries and their national dishes

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The Liberator and the ecologist

Jack Gaioni (Columnist) - 18 May, 2014 @ 09:00

Olive Press columnist Jack Gaioni on why the ghosts of Simon Bolivar and Alexander von Humboldt are alive and well

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Cabrera Island…Idyllic yet horrific

Imogen Calderwood - 21 Apr, 2014 @ 09:00

Olive Press columnist Jack Gaioni on Spain's unknown prison island

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After years of campaigning, British expat areas of Spain's Costa Blanca will finally get home postal deliveries

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