First impressions:
Not much of an effort has gone into giving Siam any kind of Thai feel.
The only waiter looks like he should have retired a long time ago. Actually, he made us feel so bad that we started clearing tables for him, so maybe he´s got the right idea. Also, he´s quite deaf and he [...]
Travelling around in Spain a lot, you start noticing stuff. The way they write “lively” when they mean “right above a rock club”, the way “charming” usually means “dump”, that kind of thing. And then there are the blatant lies!”Wifi is free and available in the entire hotel” is one my favorites.
Yeah, right! Free it [...]
200.000 Spaniards lost their jobs this January. That makes a total of 3.33 million Spaniards without a job. The credit crunch and the end of the housing bubble is causing the crisis to hit Spain harder than other countries so far.
Untill recently, the only person I knew who’d been hit by the Crisis was my [...]
Tornadoes, to me, were stuff that happened on the Discovery Channel. Or in the Wizard of Oz! However, since last night, I know these things can hit a lot closer to home.
A small tornado wreaked havoc in Estepona and Malaga. In seconds, the roof was ripped off a circus tent, cars got smashed, busstops were [...]
Luckily, the Lord invented coffee!
Madoff’s first night in a hotel was rather hellish.
We’d been staying in a lovely, pet friendly, b&b for three days and all was fine. It was just us staying there so we weren’t bothering anyone, and on the whole Madoff behaved very well.
Then we went to Malaga to Las Acacias. Also [...]
Cheap, cute and pet friendly!
As the owner of a young puppy, I have to look for pet friendly places to stay. Most hotels are not to keen on pets, but you may have more luck with hostals and b&b’s.
La Escuela Crujia not only allows you to bring a pet, they actually welcome it! It’s probably [...]
As I am looking to buy a house in the Andalusian Alpujarras I’m curious how the global economical crisis is affecting the real estate prices in this neck of the woods.
Type “Spanish housing market” into any old search engine and you’ll get millions of results. Google gives you over 11.100.000 results, Yahoo! yields a whopping [...]
I speak a little Spanish. Some days are better than others, but all in all I get the stuff I want, albeit usually a week after I wanted it. Still, most of my conversations are a bit surreal:
“Your dog looks like a sheep”
“Yes, it has a very bad temper.”
or just very basic:
“I go village yesterday”.
I [...]
What’s it like living in Spain? Today pretty much summed it up: fiesta, manana and sol.
Like so many people we’ve been thinking about moving to warmer climes for a bit now. Living in a big city, traffic, lack of parking, rain… There must be a better life!
I would love a small house with a bit of land, an open fire, a veggie patch and a dog.
So we thought we’d go [...]
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