7 Oct, 2010 @ 12:50
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IT could hardly have come as a surprise if you had been pickpocketed in Grazalema at the weekend.


The town was the setting for the annual meet of bandoleros – or bandits – from around the region.

Now in its fourth year, a band of bloodthirsty brigands roamed the streets pulling people from their cars to demand money.

The same group even ran over and encircled a group of tourists at gunpoint as they got off their bus from Cadiz (see picture).

Of course, this was all part of the weekend, when the town turns itself back two centuries to the year 1832. As well as a string of knife fights between actors there was a constant battle to put infamous bandolero ‘Jose Maria el Tempranillo’ behind bars.

Some 20,000 people visited the town over the ‘Blood and Love in the Mountains’ weekend.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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