¡Ya viene el butanero!
Si crees que tienes un trabajo duro, piénsalo de nuevo. Una de las ocupaciones más exigentes aquí en España debe ser la de entregar las bombonas de gas a los hogares y empresas del país. Hablé con nuestro butanero …
HAMMAM حمّام Andalucía’s Arabic Spa Tradition
What we think of as modern spa treatments are far from new. Mankind’s attraction to warm water and well-being goes back to antiquity. Both the Greeks and the Romans had very advanced public bathing cultures, but it was the Arabs …
LA PLAZA The heart of any Spanish town
“I’ll meet you at the plaza.”
If you live in Spain, you must have heard these words a million times.
The Spanish word plaza, which has been used in English since the 1830s, comes from the Latin word platea (meaning …
The Newcomers
Moving to another country can be incredibly exciting. Everything new can be quite intoxicating. You feel fully alive, almost like a child again. An adventurer or perhaps an explorer (although we are far from a Robinson Crusoe in today’s …
The Widow Who Changed the World of Port Wine
Wine is mostly considered a man’s domain, but that is not always the case – at least not when it comes to port. This sweet wine named after the city of Porto is still drunk worldwide and is a …
The hourglass
Every month, a small group of art- and history buffs meet in an esteemed library in Ronda, Andalucía to hear a Spanish philosopher talk about anything between heaven and earth. It can be a book, a piece of music, …
ONCE – Far more than an organization for the blind
Everyone in Spain has probably seen the lottery kiosks with the sign ONCE in capital letters. Many know these are run by the Spanish National Organization for the Blind or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE). But what most …
ONCE – Mucho más que una organización para ciegos
Seguramente todo el que vive en España ha visto los kioscos de lotería con el cartel ONCE en mayúsculas. Muchos saben que están gestionados por la Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE). Pero lo que la mayoría de gente no …
How I came to love November
They say that when it rains, it pours, and that can certainly apply to Spain. After several years of intense drought, all the precipitation we should have had during the last 12 months came in a single …
The Art of Olive Oil Tasting
In Andalucía, we have almost unlimited possibilities to participate in wine tastings – in vineyards, bodegas, or even wine shops. One learns to distinguish between young and well-aged wine, understand the concept of terroir, know whether the wine comes from …