KARETHE LINAAE
2025 has been the year when summer refused to end.
Every day in June, the temperature climbed above 30 degrees here in southern Spain. Then came the Terral winds, bringing the tropical heat of July and August, with new records …
Most people who move to Spain have their own requirements. According to real estate agents on the Costa del Sol, most people desire a south-facing terrace, ideally with mountain and sea views, proximity to downtown shops and restaurants, and, …
Climate change is causing increasingly extreme meteorological phenomena, including heatwaves, intense storms, and prolonged droughts. These are things that we who reside in Andalucía must learn to live with, but there is one consequence of climate change that …
On rare occasions, when all elements and planets are aligned and our creative willpower is unstoppable, providence will step in and spur a project along, far beyond our wildest dreams. This is what happened with a short film I made …
Several years ago, I received a rose bush as a gift from my friend, Jenny. She bought it at a street market in Pruna, a village in the Andalusian hinterland that few people have probably heard of. The rose lived …
On rare occasions when travelling, one finds a lodging where one feels completely at home. For me, it has only happened a couple of times. Once at an Inn on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, after a secret …
When the international press writes about the Andalusian inland town of Ronda, they almost always talk about the historic bridge or Spain’s oldest permanent bullring. Therefore, it was a big surprise when the prestigious American TIME Magazine chose a brand-new …
I’ve never been a conspiracy theorist, but has anyone else noticed that somebody or something is messing with our time?
As a youngster, hearing older people complaining about how fast time passed, I wondered what their problem was since my …
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 …
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 …