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Category Archives: Spain
Abandon hope all ye that enter here III
The futility of life or trying to buy an IKEA kitchen. On our last visit to IKEA we’d been given a rather expensive quote and told we couldn’t order a thing until the ‘measuring man’ had been. Going through the … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Communication, Personal, Spain, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged bad service, builder, customer service, Dante Inferno, DIY, hell, IKEA, Kitchen, Malaga, shopping
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Abandon hope all ye that enter here II – IKEA
Clutching our cut out paper kitchen we returned to the big blue that’s IKEA,; they have the same layout the world over with the room designs and assembled furniture upstairs and then the Market Place below. There’s no escape as … Continue reading
Abandon hope all ye that enter here I
Recently we unintentionally acted on some sound property advice: always buy the cheapest house in the best street. Well not literally as it’s an apartment not a house and not in a street either but a harbour side development. Oh, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Spain, Technology, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged abandon hope, Andalucia, apartment, builder, computer, Dante, design, DIY, hell, IKEA, Kitchen, kitchen units, Malaga, pine furniture, property, property sector, reform, renovate
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Jerez de la Frontera
As newlyweds last autumn we tried to explore Jerez de la Frontera; non-stop rain however meant that we only managed the Tio Pepe Bodega and a couple of tapas bars before soggily driving away. So a return visit was on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Personal, Spain, Travel, vacation
Tagged A matter of life and death, Alcazar, Andalucia, Bodega, castle, David Niven, film, holiday, jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, movie, palace, Palacio Villavicencio, sherry, Tio Pepe, travel, vacation, wine producer, wor, World war 1 . World war 2
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The Cork Oak
The closest many people ever get to a Cork Oak tree will be when handling a cork from a newly opened bottle of wine or removing the stopper of an olive oil bottle. It’s amazing to think that these cork … Continue reading
Guernica
The town of Gernika (Basque spelling) is strategically important as 2 main roads intersect there with links to the port town of Bermeo and the Basque capital Bilbao. The river also becomes deep enough for trading boats to navigate the … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Bureacracy, Current affairs, History, Politics, Spain, Travel, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Basque, Bilbao, Biscay, Blitzkreig, Condor, Franco, Germany, Gernika, Goering, Guernica, Italy, Luftwaffe, mobile, Mola, nazi, Nuremburg, Queipo de llano, Spanish Civil war, total war, war
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The Zombies of Spain
Believe it or not there are around 40,000 zombies walking the Spanish streets; they are mostly invisible as they hide in their flash cars and behind the high walls of their plush homes. These zombies once feasted off their shareholders, … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Current affairs, Politics, Spain, Uncategorized
Tagged Bale, banks, Bernabeu, building, construction, corruption, ECB, EU, eurozone, France, Gibraltar, Greece, loans, Madrid, Messi, property bubble, rajoy, Spain, UEFA, UK, unemployment, zombies
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The Pot and the Kettle
The Islas Chafarinas are three small islands located just 3.5km off the coast of Morocco, they have been occupied by the Spanish since 1847 with the only residents being a 190 strong military garrison. There used to be a colony … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Spain, Travel, war
Tagged Alhucemas, Ceuta, Chafarinas, Dictator, environment, fascist, Franco, Gibraltar, King, Melilla, Mohamed VI, Morocco, parsley, Penon Velez de Gomera, Peoples Party, perejil, PP, Spain, Spanish Legion, war
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Bomber Harris
Arthur Harris was born in 1892; his parents didn’t think him clever enough to go to Eton as his brothers had before, so gave him the choice of joining the army or going to the colonies. He chose the latter … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Education, History, Politics, Spain, Transport, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Arab, area bombing, bomber, bomber command, Bomber Harris, britain, carpet bombing, Churchill, Dresden, Germany, Hamburg, Hitler, India, Palestine, Persia, Royal Air Force, total war, World war 1 . World war 2, Worldwar 2
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