• 07/08 | 02:00

    The great festival shake down

    Columnist Dilip Kuner explores how a landmark 320,000euro fine in Spain exposes predatory festival practices, from cashless refund fees to dynamic ticket pricing

    Dilip Kuner
  • Splashing the cash

    07/08 | 02:00

    Splashing the cash

    Real Madrid and Barcelona rebuild with blockbuster summer signings and high-stakes moves writes columnist Rob Palmer

    Rob Palmer, commenator, ESPN
  • Life after 'The Good Life' on the Costa Tropical

    07/08 | 02:00

    Life after 'The Good Life' on the Costa Tropical

    John Esmonde: Nearly 50 years after they first arrived in La Herradura, Gina Esmonde remembers a life shared with her husband John - the man behind 'The Good Life' - in the small seaside village

    Daniela Craft Márquez
  • Diego Velázquez: The 'painter of painters'

    07/08 | 02:00

    Diego Velázquez The 'painter of painters'

    Praised by many art historians as the greatest Spanish painter before Picasso, his work inspired many 19th-century French painters

    Tony Bryant
  • 07/08 | 02:00

    August and everything after

    Columnist Peter Edgerton offers a humorous survival guide for enduring the scorching heat and inertia of mid-summer in southern Spain

    Peter Edgerton