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?’
Requiem for the Christmas card
I DON’T know about you but I’ve got three solitary Christmas cards to display on my mantelpiece this Christmas. It’s nothing like ye old yuletide’s
ON THE UP: Why are property prices in Marbella still rising?
WHEN the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, homeowners and property developers braced themselves for a drop in housing values, but in the end this didn’t materialise.
Spain and Marbella’s underlying property market is inherently solid
TO some, it may seem like we’ve been here before – a serious economic crisis that halts growth and progress and little more than 10
BREXIT: No news is bad news
By Anne Hernandez THIS past week, apart from the excitement of a vaccine becoming available for use in the UK, intense talks between the EU
Christmas comes early in Spain
TINY turkeys, trimmed-down Xmas puds, Rule of Six-sized boxes of crackers … Mini-mas, as COVID Christmas 2020 has pessimistically been coined, was shaping up to
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
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
Trump, COVID restrictions and Brexit – a view from Spain
By Anne Hernandez IT’S certainly been a couple of weeks of twists and turns. First we had the US elections and Trump making a fool
Knight in a Safari Suit: Sir David Attenborough’s soothing voice doesn’t overcome his stark message
HE’S too modest for shining armour but Sir David Attenborough is a true hero of our times writes Belinda Beckett I WAS looking forward to
Bears do it
THE dental check-up, check. The farmacia for winter meds, check. The Gibraltar shop for Marmite, mint sauce and Coleman’s Mustard Powder, check. Six months supply
‘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
UK and Spanish attitude to testing – it certainly is!
THERE are two distinct camps of people – those who will or won’t risk travelling abroad, but I think it should be down to the
Lisa gets the all clear after cancer battle
MY partner, Joffrey Charles, has saved my life. He nagged me incessantly about the small but growing lump under my right armpit in the summer
All that glitters is not gold: take care when buying new build property in Spain
MAGPIE buyers are always tempted by the sheen of new-build properties, but in reality such homes often offer a lot less than meets the eye.
If you want to remain in Spain legally you’d better get a move on!
After being back in Mallorca I had to pick up where I’d left off with the legal stuff after going back to the UK for
‘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
DEAR JENNIFER: Do I need to get the new TIE residency card?
Many of you will have heard of the TIE card (Tarjeta de Identidad de extranjero), whilst many of you won’t have. Therefore I thought I
EXPLAINER: What British expats in Spain need to know about the new residencia status
ON Monday July 6, 2020, the Directorate General of Migration and the Policia Nacional issued - upon application - a new residency card and, with
Coronavirus can’t cast a cloud over property values on Spain’s Costa del Sol while world’s rich and famous aspire to place in the sun
ESTATE agents are eternal optimists, even in the most adverse of circumstances. Ask them for a forecast in the current crisis and almost anyone whose
Lisa Burgess has been getting by with a little help from her friends during her fight with cancer
CANCER can be a lonely business and I would not have got through it without my friends. I am a lucky girl indeed to have
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
First coronavirus laid waste to our lifestyles, now it’s invading our language, writes Belinda Beckett
HOW’S your New Normal working out? If, like me, you don a visor over your face mask like a medieval knight of old every time
EXPLAINER: How to use the law in Spain against online trolls
IT is hard to accept that the internet, from which we derive so much benefit, should be so densely populated by individuals (‘trolls’) who deliberately
As Spain’s COVID-19 crisis recedes the spectre of Brexit has returned for British property buyers
SPAIN has finally allowed tourism to return after several months of the world’s most draconian COVID-19 lockdown. Brits, Germans and other key tourist markets are
Lisa Burgess goes under the knife for reconstructive breast surgery after battling cancer
I WAS apprehensive attending La Cala medical clinic for vital blood tests and arrived in full PPE, imagining I would be entering a scene from