Blog #General Franco

This post is not about the song made famous by Topol from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof". ​Nor is it about the fabulous sunrises and sunsets we get down here in Andalucia. ​These celestial delights are just the starting point for an article about the continuing popularity of the area among northern Europeans.

The Christmas / New Year holiday is so long in Spain, and the weather forecast for this year is so bad, that we need something to do indoors, other than watching end-to-end Christmas films and TV repeats. How about reading a good book? Here are The Culture Vulture's suggestions for a festive reading list in no particular order. The writers are American, English, Irish, Norwegian, Ukrainian and two Spanish.

I first visited Spain in 1970, when Spain was a dictatorship under the tight control of General Franco and the Roman Catholic Church. I was 20. Viewed back then as a fascist country and a strictly religious society, pretty much everything was banned, including all forms of contraception. What's that got to do with suppositories? Read on to find out!

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.