Setas - home of popular dissent in Seville, and a bird's-eye eaterie
You may have noticed I've been a bit quiet about the Setas/acampada Sevilla/15M of late. Which isn't because I've lost interest in the movement - far from it; I've just been too busy with other work projects to get…
My first taste of Spain
I started my Spanish adventure around three weeks ago, just four days after my final second-year exam at university, where I’m studying Marketing & Public Relations. I am currently on a placement working for Andalucia.com and living in Estepona where their offices are,…
The language of... tax
About a month ago, I did a post on preparing and submitting your Declaracion de la Renta (tax return), the deadline for which is the end of this month.
Like most people, the mere thought of this sends me into a cold sweat. All those unfamiliar but…
Romero and romerias
Andalucia isn't short of ferias (each town's annual party) and fiestas (other celebrations) - there are plenty every month throughout the year. Many of these have religious roots - Semana Santa, saint's days, and the numerous romerías (pilgrimages). The biggest, and…
Caring for our environment
Yesterday was World Environment Day (WED), or Dia Mundial del Medio Ambiente here in Spain. (The previous week, it was World No Tobacco Day - surely not a coincidence?)
Established by the UN in 1972, the idea of WED is to "stimulate worldwide awareness of the…
Seville in bloom
Since we had some welcome positive news about Andalucia's economy today - unemployment in the region fell in May - I thought I'd do a happy post, about trees and flowers.
Last week, as part of a project to add new pages on Seville to the website, I visited two gardens…
What's new up the Setas?
I was back there again yesterday evening - can't seem to stay away from the place. Seville's Metropol Parasol, which has now been finished for two months, changes every time I go there.
This time I went up the pasarela with my family. The new archaeological museum,…
Menos gritos y mas palabras
After the excitement which surrounded the climax of the public pre-election protest last week - 15M, Democracia Real Ya, the Spanish revolution - the atmosphere is changing: evolving and developing, in a constructive way. Unemployment, corruption, lack of…
22M, 15M and a peaceful revolution?
Today is such a momentous day for news in Spain, I don't really know where to begin. This blog is not supposed to be political, either in content or bias, but you can't (well, I can't, anyway) ignore what's been going on around the country, including…
If you know Seville, whether as resident, past or present; regular or occasional visitor; or just as somewhere you've read about and would like to go to, you'll no doubt be aware of its rich history. Like other Andalucian cities, it has been inhabited over the centuries by Phoenicians, Romans and…