Andalucia Steve

...living the dream

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
 

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
 

Spanish Weather is Amazing

Thoughts on the capricious nature of Spanish weather
It is purely a personal observation but I'm aware of no other nation who talk more than the British about the weather than the Spanish people do. Before I came to live here, I, like many folk unfamiliar with the climate, thought it was all going to be "Scorchio" (If you don't get the reference, Google ' Meteorologikos mit Poula!'). How wrong I was. During my first August in Spain, the stifling heat was punctuated by a summer storm, the like of which I'd not seen before or since.... read more
 
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