Giles Brown, Author at Olive Press News Spain

Teed off: Environmentalists in Spain slam yet another golf course plan on unspoilt Costa la Luz

SPANISH environmental group Ecologistas en Accion have criticised the Junta de Andalucia´s latest strategic plan that includes yet another golf course. The proposed project outlines

18 Sep, 2021 @ 16:15

Cadiz·Environment·Lead

Desert dreaming: The world’s first off-grid ‘capsule hotel’ is located in the Gorafe desert in Spain’s Granada

An avant-garde new tourism project has opened in the heart of the Gorafe desert in the Granada. In a world first, District Hive aims to

16 Sep, 2021 @ 12:00

Granada·Hotels·Olive Press Travel

Family of missing teen Amy Fitzpatrick believe she is buried beneath race track on Spain’s Costa del Sol

IT IS a case that has baffled police for over a decade, but Irish authorities have now called for a cold case review as the

6 Sep, 2021 @ 18:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

IN PICS: Inside the Spanish hideaway of road rage killer and notorious gangland figure Kenneth Noye

Choice in paintings and books give no hints of the home of legendary killer Kenneth Noye now on the market.

28 Aug, 2021 @ 14:15

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead·Property

Motor mayhem: It’s that time of year on Spain’s Costa del Sol

SUMMER has long been the time of year when driving niceties fly straight out of the near side window. The roads are full normally of

28 Aug, 2021 @ 11:32

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead·Malaga

SPANISH BEACH?: You can keep it

SUMMER is here and like the much maligned and misunderstood lemmings of popular folklore most of Spain flocks to the shoreline every summer August is

13 Aug, 2021 @ 14:15

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Judge in Spain says Real Madrid and Barcelona can be punished for trying to set up aborted European Super League

This Sporting Life

ENGLAND may have missed out in the Euro 2020 final, but performances of Gareth Southgate’s team have been described as one of the greatest English

18 Jul, 2021 @ 15:45

Columnists·Lead·Opinion

Get thee to a sluttery

‘Hello to Jason Issacs’. If you recognise that greeting then you are most probably a member of The Church of Wittertainment, aka the considerable audience

11 Jul, 2021 @ 11:15

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Back on the paper round: Delivering the news in Spain

WHILE the boffins in the economic think tanks point to various trends, graphs and assorted factors that life in Spain is returning to normal, the

20 Jun, 2021 @ 14:37

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

‘It’s better than Brixton’: Marbella made the front pages again!

MARBELLA made the front pages in the UK once again last month when The Guardian, not known for salacious reporting, ran a 10,000-word feature entitled

6 Jun, 2021 @ 08:45

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

International singer and restaurateur Toni Dalli dies at Marbella home

TONI DALLI, the International singing star who rose from the Yorkshire coal mines to become a household name in the UK and US in the

30 Apr, 2021 @ 11:58

Entertainment·Lead·National News·Other News

Livin’ La Vida Liga!: European Super League plan throws spotlight on Real Madrid – Barcelona rivalry in Spain

IN case you have been living under a rugby ball sized rock recently, the media has gone into meltdown over plans for a European Super

25 Apr, 2021 @ 15:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead·Sport

Keeping it old school

BELIEVE it or not, I haven’t lived in Marbella all my life. Although some might say that I flopped onto a Marbella beach on some

11 Apr, 2021 @ 13:15

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Getting a grip: Accused of faking COVID is a low blow – even for Marbella!

It was the last caller that did it. I was into the final three minutes of ‘Viewpoint’, the live radio show that I host every

14 Mar, 2021 @ 15:39

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

The Zen of The Rona: Dealing with the virus involves lots of navel gazing

AS you may or may not be aware, I spent most of last month recovering from what my more streetwise friends refer to as ‘The

14 Feb, 2021 @ 17:27

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

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

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 think

7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:56

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

It’s a New Dawn, it’s a New Day…

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

17 Jan, 2021 @ 14:22

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

All I want for Christmas, ain’t you

YOU may have noticed that we are in December and, as John Lennon famously wrote ‘And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?’

26 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45

Columnists·Lead

How much more does Marbella have to take?

A TEENAGER was fatally stabbed on a street that I used to live near. It’s a busy road that divides a popular commercial centre and

20 Nov, 2020 @ 14:48

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Salute to Sir Sean: Connery was central figure to expats on the Costa del Sol

EVERYONE lucky enough to live in Marbella between the 60s and 80s has a Sean Connery story. The Bond star lived in his beachside villa

15 Nov, 2020 @ 15:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead·National News

‘Making do with tech as old as me’ – Giles takes a tip from the Wombles for his off-grid life in Spain

IF the last couple months of what we can euphemistically refer to as ‘This, that and the other’ have taught me one thing, it is

11 Oct, 2020 @ 12:46

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Winner takes it all: Who can make the most money off a hypothetical wad of cash?

Olive Press columnist Giles Brown has been pipped to the post in a €100,000 investment challenge organised by BINCKBANK Marbella. The fantasy contest saw Giles

17 Sep, 2020 @ 16:07

Lead

‘L’etat c’est moi’: Giles Brown looks back at the glory days of King Juan Carlos

IT’S been a busy week broadcasting, what with reporting on the rise of coronavirus cases and the shutting down of later night bars and discos

22 Aug, 2020 @ 15:11

Columnists·Lead

Giles Brown realised he wasn’t the only one heading for the beach post-lockdown as Spain’s Costa del Sol gets BUSY again

HOW were things for you in the first weeks of the ‘new normal’? As I mentioned before, I was lucky enough during lockdown to have

4 Jul, 2020 @ 12:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

As confinement comes to an end, I’ll miss the jokers in Spain’s COVID-19 comedy of errors, writes Giles Brown

BY the time you read this, Spain will have bravely stepped into the ‘New Normal’. To be honest, I have had enough trouble adjusting to

20 Jun, 2020 @ 13:50

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

George Floyd’s death should make us rethink how we treat each other, writes Giles Brown

I DIDN’T watch the video. I didn’t need to. The image of George Floyd being ‘restrained’ was enough. Social media has fulfilled Marshal McLuhan’s prophecy

7 Jun, 2020 @ 12:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear