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Posts From August, 2020

Andalucia and Murcia compared.

My experience having lived in both parts of Spain
Now let me say right off the bat that I'm not going to compare the whole of Andalusia with the whole of Murcia. They're big places which one could spend a lifetime getting to know completely. I'll be mainly focusing on the towns I've lived in and I am familiar with in each respective autonomous community. I lived for seven years in Cehegin, Murcia which is inland, and about an hour and a half away from the coast by car. I've lived for nearly ten years in Olvera, Cadiz which is also... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, August 30, 2020 1:24:00 PM Categories: Andalusia Flamenco Murcia Spanish culture
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A brief sketch of my dad

A tribute to my late father on his birthday
My late father would have been celebrating his 112 birthday today were he alive, which is a good excuse for me to relate a few stories about him. When I was a youngster there were no end of people who would take me aside and tell me what a good man my father was. His work colleagues, neighbours, seemingly anyone who knew him, deemed it necessary to point out to me I had a good dad. We moved house when he retired and within months our new neighbours were taking me aside telling me ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, August 23, 2020 9:03:00 AM Categories: Family history Lifeskills Plumbing
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Spain's problem with rural depopulation

Solutions for small towns with an exodus of people
I mentioned in a previous blog post (the Gargoyle Folk), that I'd been lucky enough to cadge a ride with a local vet into the wild mountains of Albacete while he visited remote farms to inspect their goat herds. One of the eye-opening revelations of this visit was that one of the farmers offered me a house for 8000 euros. It was a big house and not in a bad state of repair! The problem is that it was so remote it would have been difficult to live there. How folk survived there in the old ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, August 16, 2020 1:03:00 PM Categories: Economy Electric Vehicles Spain
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