Giles Brown, Author at Olive Press News Spain

Female expats slam police for ridiculous sanctions, as it emerges Spain has issued over ONE million fines for breaking coronavirus lockdown

A PAIR of female expats have appealed to their town halls over intimidation and overreaction by their local police forces during the COVID-19 lockdown. The

30 May, 2020 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Glitz, glamour and a seething Ronnie Corbett – Giles Brown chronicles his misspent youth as Marbella’s Puerto Banus turns 50

YOU can easily dismiss ‘The Port’ as full of the wannabes, the It girls, and the has-beens as well as the brash, blinged, blasted and

30 May, 2020 @ 14:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

COVID-19: The wrong camera angle on your Zoom call could leave you looking like Jabba the Hutt and don’t forget the bookcase behind you, warns Giles Brown

THERE seem to be several ways of dealing with the current coronavirus crisis. One option – sadly is no longer open to me – is

17 May, 2020 @ 16:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

The Costa del Sol’s car-free roads are giving Giles Brown travel nightmares during Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

BEING what is deemed an ‘essential worker’ – which as a freelance journalist and broadcaster is a first – I am lucky enough to be

26 Apr, 2020 @ 11:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

Giles Brown has had enough of the virtual breathing workshops and online psychobabble of Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

What could be more inspiring than the sight of a 50-something male in a hooded dressing gown muttering obscure rock lyrics to himself

18 Apr, 2020 @ 11:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

How Spain’s coronavirus is both a geek heaven and a harsh reality writes Giles Brown

And thus it came to pass that the Geek did, indeed, inherit the Earth

29 Mar, 2020 @ 09:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead

Spain’s Coronavirus outbreak has Giles Brown humming along to a noughties boy band from inside his loo roll lair

Living in splendid isolation in a cottage by the lake, with the nearest neighbour about half a mile away, a generator for power and a

21 Mar, 2020 @ 14:00

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Fake news, cocaine and 70s rock – the Costa del Sol really has gone coronavirus crazy, writes Giles Brown

The fact that coronavirus had finally reached Marbella was worthy of a report on my news blog

7 Mar, 2020 @ 12:30

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Giles Brown has an awkward moment with Spain’s DGT while changing his British license post-Brexit

Phonetically spelling out my name to the operator, my brain froze on the first letter

1 Mar, 2020 @ 19:24

Malaga·Politics

Tale of a cold dip in Spain’s Mediterranean

Just when Giles Brown thought it was safe to go back to the water…

9 Feb, 2020 @ 11:30

Entertainment

As Spain shut down for the festive period, the Hacienda still had a last-minute gift for Giles Brown

The noble men and women of Hacienda and Social Security who, in a pincer movement of ruthless efficiency and deadly timing that would have made

11 Jan, 2020 @ 10:30

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

The Tories’ victory has Remainer in Spain Giles Brown battling trolls and stockpiling for the Brexit apocalypse

Spanish citizenship might be tricky and I’m loathe to get a green card by an arranged marriage in Lepe

26 Dec, 2019 @ 09:02

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

After two more gangland killings, Giles Brown calls for end to violence in Marbella and on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Marbella needs to take a long, hard look at the problem before it spirals any further out of control

8 Dec, 2019 @ 11:59

Crime & Law·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

A trip to the hospital in Spain has turned Giles Brown into a bookworm with six pack abs and restored his faith in humanity

Spraining an ankle is not a training programme that I would recommend, but there is an upside!

10 Nov, 2019 @ 12:15

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

“I suffered a very British accident this week, but I am now available as the perfect panto pirate”, writes Giles Brown

"In the circumstances, my only option was to shout out for help."

27 Oct, 2019 @ 14:00

After a 30-year hiatus, it’s time to get the band back together for a birthday party in Marbella, writes Giles Brown

In the meantime, I struggled to fret a B chord.

12 Oct, 2019 @ 10:05

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Opinion

Giles Brown sees his life flash before his eyes while go-karting on Spain’s Costa del Sol

I spent much of my childhood playing Scalextric in my bedroom as a small boy.

29 Sep, 2019 @ 13:00

Columnists·Lead

After J-Lo banned the media from a gig in Spain last month, Marbella veteran Giles Brown explores the changing face of celebrity

All the modern celebrity has to do is appear in a reality TV show to ensure his or her 15 minutes of fame

14 Sep, 2019 @ 11:15

Celebrity·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

Everyone loves a good party, but when the flaming arrows come out, maybe it’s time to leave writes Giles Brown

THUS it came to pass that the Ziglet’s Big Day finally arrived. My goddaughter Ziggy married Josh in August, and as ‘el padrino’ I was

31 Aug, 2019 @ 08:46

Columnists

It’s the essentials you really miss when Spain closes for August, writes Giles Brown

When you have the sort of luck with cars that I have, that makes this month more than a little nervy

16 Aug, 2019 @ 14:25

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

Giles Brown answers a frequently asked question, who left the dogs out?

Bye Bye Bailey. You were such a good boy xx

3 Aug, 2019 @ 09:30

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

LOOK OF LUX: Giles Brown is an expert at picking out a face in a crowd, even in Spain’s Malaga Airport

“Basically, one of the things that attracts mosquitoes is if you are sexually active,” she said, looking straight at me

20 Jul, 2019 @ 17:03

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

Giles Brown is more Christopher Biggins than Christopher Reeve as he learns to fly in southern Spain

While I didn’t soar like Superman, I didn’t bounce off the bottom of the wind tunnel in a crumpled heap

7 Jul, 2019 @ 16:08

Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

OPEN SEASON: Giles Brown puts up many a guest at his place, but draws the line at garden yurts

As one American guest, who didn’t stay long, famously remarked, ‘You see kids? This is what happens when a man lives alone’

22 Jun, 2019 @ 10:30

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

TROLL TROUBLE: Giles Brown is used to insults flying his way, but troll his family and that’s a different matter

‘If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out’ tends to be my mantra

8 Jun, 2019 @ 11:36

Columnists·Lead

I have never felt more proud of my Burlesque-dancing goddaughter, writes Giles Brown

As part of her Burlesque act, Ziggy uses a chair, but we discovered to our horror that none of the chairs at the venue would

25 May, 2019 @ 09:30

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga