The difficulties people throughout the world are experiencing with air travel, as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, reminds Paul Whitelock…
About Paul Whitelock
Paul Whitelock is a retired former languages teacher, school inspector and translator, who emigrated to the Serranía de Ronda in 2008, where he lives with his second wife, Rita. He spends his time between Montejaque and Ronda doing DIY, gardening and writing.
Sometimes companies choose inappropriate names for their products. Paul Whitelock has been investigating…
Of all the brand…
When Paul Whitelock was renovating a house in the Peñas…
Today is El Día de la Hispanidad. As we know shops and offices are closed, few people go to…
October 1 was the International Day of Coffee. Did you miss it? Paul Whitelock only heard about it over a week later! He thinks it’s time to…
The exquisite ´serranito´ from Ronda is thirty years old. Inventor Benito González managed to make this tapa a…
When Paul Whitelock moved to live in the Serranía de Ronda in Spain there were just four things he did not like about…
Over the last five centuries hundreds of Spanish words have entered the English language. Here is Part Five, the final part of my selection of…
It’s a bit of a cliché when retired people say they’ve never been so busy, writes Paul Whitelock, but it’s true! Nevertheless Paul likes the…
What do you know about the Serranía de Ronda? Most of us tend to just know about the town or village where we live and/or work or where we visit…
Last Friday and Saturday live theatre made a welcome return to our daily lives. In the Santo Domingo Convent in Ronda, the theatre group Pequeña…
Over the last five centuries hundreds of Spanish words have entered the English language. Here is Part Four of Paul Whitelock’s selection of the…
There is a new phenomenon taking place in the Serranía de Ronda. The increase in the number of very young entrepreneurs.
In Ronda,…
In most Christian countries it has been commonplace for two thousand years for parents to choose biblical names for their children.
You’ve probably all heard the rather wacky theory that John F Kennedy, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Princess Diana et al aren’t dead at…