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Experience Vélez-Málaga's Holy Week with tours in English

Jennie Rhodes

La Casa de las Titas in Vélez-Málaga is offering three Holy Week guided tours in English next week. Even though there will be no processions in Vélez-Málaga this year, English-speaking residents and visitors may still have the opportunity to ... April. A professional guide and native English speaker will take visitors to see the town's monuments, churches, altars and the images of Jesus Christ and Our Lady in the Holy Week museum . The walking tours, which cost 10 euros, will last ... Reservations are mandatory and can be made by phone (in Spanish) on 952 50 20 61 or by email (in English) on holyweektoursinenglish@gmail.com.

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Crowdfunding campaign launched to help maintain the English Cemetery

FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched in a bid to secure funds to help maintain the historic English Cemetery in Malaga city which has suffered enormously from a lack of visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic. The GoFundMe campaign was ... launched by Bruce McIntyre, president of the English Cemetery Foundation of Malaga, who prior to his retirement was British consul in Malaga from 2000 to 2008. On the page, McIntyre explained that because of the current situation and subsequent

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Alhaurín el Grande introduces QR codes for its places of interest

Andrea JIMéNEZ

...available in Spanish and English. The councillor for Culture, Francisco José Burgos, says this is one of several initiatives with tourism in mind. A mural is also to be painted in Calle Cruz, and glazed flowerpots in the colour blue will be placed on

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'Only reality could save me, even if the world caved in'

ALEKK M. SAANDERS International Transgender Day of Visibility

...job was as a kitchen assistant. My first home in England was a good, old but comfortable room with excellent heating," she told SUR in English. The cold atmosphere in England needed the warmth of friendship. Kim had realised it would be difficult to ... added. Looking back she knows she was making a mistake, but then she didn't realise that those feelings could be channelled, but not repressed. Kim interrupted her stay in the English capital and went back to her life in Spain, working as a teacher at

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Making jazz music on the Costa Tropical

Jennie Rhodes

...that her songs tell stories and one called Storyville is based on the town in New Orleans "where Jazz allegedly began in 1923". She's also written a flamenco fusion song called Spain. "A lot of English speakers like flamenco but don't speak Spanish,

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Revealing the mysteries of Mijas in aid of worthy causes

Tony Bryant

...euros for the Donkey Dreamland sanctuary in La Cala de Mijas. Fascinating stories The tours, which are conducted in English, are free, but Alan suggests a donation of five euros. The tour is limited to groups of nine people, which, as Alan points ... Mijas. There are many lovely things to see here, but the aim is to get under the obvious and take visitors into the real Mijas," Alan explains to SUR in English. Alan, who owns a small shop in Mijas, is also hoping to help local businesses survive the

Education

Secondary short stories

Night Terrors He could hear it, but didn’t dare open his eyes. How could he, when, if he did, the untold monstrosities that lurked around at night would lunge at him with their terrible, suffocating grasp? He could hear one’s torn, ragged breathing

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International education on the Costa del Sol: present and future

SUR in English

...http://www.brightcove.com/brightcove/diariosur/6239376112001/edit?source=brightcove&medio=diariosur&id=6239376112001&name=Education%20%26%20Learning%20Virtual%20Roundtable%20INTERNATIONAL%20EDUCATION%20ON%20THE%20COSTA%20DEL%20SOL%20-%20PRESENT%20%26%20FUTURE%20%28I%29&description=&linkURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diariosur.es%2Fsociedad%2Feducacion%2Feducation-learning-virtual-roundtable-6239376112001-20210312093341-vi.html&duration=3726464 videobrightcove6239376112001 Online roundtable 1 SUR in English ... recruiting students for jobs around the world. Krystle Robba stressed that at the University of Gibraltar all of the programmes are industry based. The language centre helps international students with their English. Language advantage James Riley of ... Phoenix College said that having both English and Spanish set students up for a global world. He added that the way the A Levels are taught develops critical thinking, which will help them understand the changing world. He agreed that the Costa del Sol

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The art of improvisation in lockdown

Jennie Rhodes

When the first lockdown in March last year was announced and Robert Lawson had to all but give up teaching English in Malaga, he turned to his lifelong passion of music to help get him through. However, not satisfied with just picking up the ... musician says that he has already been contacted by other radio stations as far afield as the USA and Australia. Although his English classes are beginning to pick up again, Robert has plans to continue with the improvised music scene and the instruments.

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Primary poems

...eat, He fights other cats, He gets into scraps. What I want from a pet Is 100 percent satisfaction GUARANTEED. So switch your dog for my cat, I’m begging you, PLEASE! Hannah Miller, age 9 English International College Spring