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The Spanish Post Office is quite unlike the UK equivalent. There are no sub-post offices as such. Big cities in Spain have a main Correos and maybe a few others dotted around. Ronda (pop: 34,000) now has two.

With the cold and wet weather we have been experiencing in southern Spain since the clocks went back, people are turning their thoughts to heating their houses. The DIY Guy has lived in a number of properties in the Ronda area, so he knows a thing or two about keeping warm.

Changing our clocks and watches twice a year is to become a thing of the past. The farce of putting the clocks back in the Autumn and forward in the Spring is to come to an end in several European countries - including Spain as early as 2026.

How many museums are there in Málaga City? Amazingly there are 13! They range from art galleries to various municipal museums; from a Glass Museum to a Museum of Vintage Cars; Even a Museum of Video Games.

Southern Spain has experienced drought conditions for the last three years. The water levels in our reservoirs are very low. Restrictions on water use have been extremely strict, although, with an eye on earnings from tourism, they were relaxed for the summer season.

Sounds grim, huh? But no, since Banksie in the UK and Arikaio, Okuda and Víctor Fernández in Spain, graffiti has become respectable. And Ronda has just been chosen as one of the half-a-dozen or so towns in Spain to be designated by La Liga Nacional de Graffiti.

My social life revolves around the bar. Wherever I have lived, the local hostelry has always been the place to meet people and to find out what’s going on; what’s for sale; where are the best places to visit; anything at all, in fact.

From sometime next year, 2025, UK passport holders will require an ETIAS to enter most European countries. Yet another stumbling block for UK travellers in the wake of Brexit.

I’ve been “footloose and fancy-free” for a week, while the missus was away visiting family in Germany. I couldn’t wait to see Rita again last evening, although I’ve enjoyed my “time-out”. She has too! It will have done us both good.

Pablo de Ronda has been “de Rodríguez” since last Wednesday, when his wife jetted off to Germany. ​“Footloose and fancy-free” is the best “translation” Pablo can muster for “de Rodríguez”. Here's what happened.

Filming took place this week in iconic locations in Ronda including the Puente Nuevo, the Fuente de los Ocho Caños, the Duquesa de Parcent square, the Arab Baths, the Alameda del Tajo park, the Ermita and the Plaza de Toros

Many years ago I wrote an article about the “doubles” of famous people who were living in the Serrania de Ronda. One of these "doubles" was the Hollywood actor Robert de Niro, who was living in the barrio.