The Bottom Line

Get thy own house in order

The bleak housing situation for young professionals on the Costa del Sol has reached the point where people feel they need to uproot their lives from friends and family and move 400km away comments contributor Neil Hesketh

Neil Hesketh

The Music Maker

Game of cards

Columnist Peter Edgerton finds himself coiled like a viper in a midnight battle of wits against the Spanish bureaucracy’s digital gatekeepers

Peter Edgerton

The Euro Zone

Cooking the books

Columnist Mark Nayler looks at how Spain's misuse of EU recovery funds came under the spotlight

Mark Nayler

Food and drink

Free tapas?

The rule book about living in Spain has a chapter referring to Spanish bars, with a prominent subsection headed Tapas

Andrew J. Linn
  • The traveller's palm
    Ravenala madagascariensis. (Wikimedia)

    The traveller's palm

    Native to Madagascar, the travellers palm or Ravenala madagascariensis, a close cousin the the bird of paradise plant in the Streliziaceae family and not a true palm

    Denise Bush |
  • The barn swallow
    Hirundo rustica. (Peter Jones)

    Andalusian bird watch

    The barn swallow

    The Andalucía Bird Society recommends looking out for Hirundo rustica this month

    Peter Jones |