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Unemployment up a whopping 47% in Spain

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 [...]

El Medico: finding a doctor in Andalusia

Hopefully, of course, you’ll be in good health for the rest of your life and never need to find yourself a medico in la Alpujarra. On the other hand, if you’re going to live here for a while, you just might.
In a real emergency, call 112, the European emergency number. Don’t expect them to speak [...]

Spanish housing market: a good time to buy in Andalusia?

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 [...]

Circular knitting: yes, you can!

I’ve been trying to knit this blasted first sock for years and after all this time I have become wary of stuff like ‘knitting for absolute  beginners’ etc. DPNS are simply out of my league, but last week I saw a video on circular knitting by Cat Bordhi and it looked totally doable. I stormed [...]

A very Spanish day: fiesta de la Virgen del Rosario

What’s it like living in Spain? Today pretty much summed it up: fiesta, manana and sol.

Useful internet links When searching for Alpujarran property

I love the internet, it’s wonderful that anyone can go online and tell the world about everything on their mind, share music, ideas and make money.
It has its drawbacks though. If you are seriously looking for a house in, say, the Alpujarras, and you type in “cortijo” (Spanish farmhouse) and “Alpujarras” you’ll never find the [...]

Bed & Breakfast Oasis Almendricos

Spanish b&b’s are hard to find, but they can be well worth the effort!