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One year on from Spain’s fatal Santiago train crash and still no justice for victims
Friends and family of victims are refusing to attend memorial ceremony
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As the tiny village of Robledillo de Gata is singled out alongside Carmona and Vejer as Spain’s best rural retreat, Jon Clarke extols the delights of a week in the little-known Sierra de Gata
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- Wolfgang on Travel against Putin: Germany encourages pensioners to holiday in Spain to save on household fuel bills: “Sitting 24/7 in an unheated Mallorca room at 12° C is not really what German pensioners are longing for. Better…” May 14, 16:16
- SEC on Rental crisis in Spain as supply of properties plummets by a third within a year: “Very unsurprising when people outside of Spain are buying up apartments and homes to use as holiday rentals. The Costa…” May 2, 10:25
- tom.walder@gmail.com on Confusion as Brits fall foul of beefed up Spanish border rules crossing from Gibraltar: “I am not sure why this is “news”. We voted leave the EU and thus give up our EU citizenship.…” Apr 30, 13:26
- Rubicons on Project to restore ancient Arab irrigation system underway in Spain’s Sierra Nevada: “Hmmm, that’s interesting? But it seems this particular archaeology professor skipped class the day that they explained about Roman aqueducts,…” Apr 12, 14:58
- Wolfgang on OPINION: Why Ukraine’s foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War: “After I have carefully read this article I still don’t understand why Ukraine’s foreign fighters have little in common with…” Mar 18, 21:25
- Rubicons on Abramovich yacht sets sail from Barcelona to avoid seizure under sanctions against Russian oligarchs: “Huh? The invasion and sanctions began weeks ago… Why was his yacht not already seized? And why did the Harbour…” Mar 14, 19:45
- Ottohund1 on EXPLAINED: How many Ukrainians and Russians are resident in Spain and where do they live?: “I think it is more than unfair, that people now blame all people from Russia for what is happening in…” Mar 2, 20:29