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Paul Whitelock has just got a new Spanish Will. Here he describes how the process can be relatively painless and also quite cheap…
Well, it took nearly 60 years but I made it in the end!
Obviously, when I was born in 1950 I didn’t yet know that Spain was my…
Have you heard about ozone being a very effective cleaner and disinfectant? Paul Whitelock has recently switched to ozone for all his cleaning…
My wife Rita is off to Germany on Saturday for family reasons, so, for the next two weeks, estoy de Rodríguez. This widely-used Spanish…
I’m sure this lyric from the Beach Boys 1965 hit resonates with lots of us who have come to Ronda to live. But why is this stunning Andalusian…
We all know the term guiri, or, if not, we should – it’s what the Spanish call us foreigners. But is the term good or bad; positive…
So many of my foreign friends and acquaintances here in Spain desperately want to do something about improving their Spanish language skills. Some…
Today in the post I received my tarjeta sesentaycinco from the Junta de Andalucía. I’d applied for it only a week or so ago. It entitles me…
Our well is done, ie sorted.
Our water comes from a pozo deep underground towards the back of our garden.…
We’ve done “our green day out” twice in recent months, in December and in April, and once in each direction. Whatever the season or whichever…
Hola. My name is Paul Whitelock. I’ve lived here in the mountains of the Serrania de Ronda for the last 12 years, splitting my…