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Mallorca

ANDREW FORBES

...can still eat well, for a fair price and in authentic surroundings. The humble, family-run B&B Can Mario is the place to enjoy real Mallorca home-cooking. During the festive season look out for classic dishes such as a hearty soup made with pasta ... Portugal' is increasingly a destination for its chic lobby bar and intimate Quadrat Restaurant. Here you can enjoy a well-priced set lunch menu, or a la carte dining with festive treats HotelSantFrancesc.com Fosh Lab & Fosh Kitchen - Palma Brit chef

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Boxing Day swim success

RACHEL ARMSTRONG

Local residents showed their festive goodwill by dipping into the Mediterranean on Boxing Day to raise money for charity. The annual II Sabi Spartan Swim was held in Sabinillas with a crowd of around 300 spectators witnessing the brave bathers ... some in swimwear and others in festive fancy dress. Ian Ewing, who took to the water dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, branded it a "great success". Donations can still be made at www.dcso-stgeorge.com/donations/

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Great festival of folk music bursts into life

ÁLVARO CABRERA

Every 28th December for the past 55 years the Malaga district of Puerto de la Torre has celebrated the Fiesta Mayor de los Verdiales. The festival is the most important of its kind in the province and despite being held on a working day, 26 bands too

National

Catalonia starts 2017 making headlines in a crunch political year

SUR IN ENGLISH MALAGA

...referendum was recognised "by the Spanish state and internationally". Offending festive lanterns There were splits even among pro-independence politicians over the decision by leaders in Vic, a town outside Barcelona, to allow festive lanterns with the

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Shops contract more workers this year for the January sales

Although in many parts of Spain the sales have already started, this Saturday ( 7 January) marks the traditional start of the discounts and bargains in shops after Christmas. According to recruitment company, Adecco, 93,000 temporary work contracts w

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Grandmother to skydive from 15,000 feet to raise money for Age Concern

TONY BRYANT FUENGIROLA

Age Concern in Fuengirola and Mijas are starting their 2017 fundraising campaign with a rather unusual project later this month. ·For more information: email fym@ageconcern.org or call 652 537 615 Following a festive season of charity dinners,

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Costa del Sol lights up for Christmas

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Sightseers and shoppers of all ages packed the streets across Malaga province last night as colourful lighting displays were switched on to entice us all into shops and to get us in the festive spirit. Malaga city centre The capital of the

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San Sebastián festivities

Jennie Rhodes

INFORMATION When. 13, 15, 20-22 January. Where. Cómpeta, Algorrobo, Faraján. The Fiesta de San Sebastián, known as the 'patron saint of winter', is celebrated on the anniversary of the saint's death, 20 January and as patron saint of Cómpeta, Alg

Opinion

New Year's revolution

Peter Edgerton

...hard on ourselves after the unbridled excesses of the festive season. We shouldn't feel obliged to go cold turkey (see what I di... oh, never mind), rather we should ease ourselves back into our routines, continuing to eat and drink too much but not to

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Drums and turnips for an early Christian saint and martyr

Debbie Bartlett what happened today?

January 20th is St Sebastian's Day, the patron saint of athletes and archers. This early Christian saint and martyr is often depicted in art and literature as a handsome young man, tied to a tree or bound to a stake, with numerous arrows piercing his