Costa Tropical News

It happened on Monday night in the village of Rubite
A British couple has died overnight when the roof of the cortijo rural house they were visiting collapsed in Granada.
It happened in the village of Rubite, and Motril firemen at the scene said that a landslide caused by the recent rains was the probable cause of [...]

Spanish Sports News

Two points remain between Real Madrid and Barcelona
It was a 6-2 thrashing for Real Madrid against Villarreal on Sunday, with Cristiano Ronaldo on top form, scoring a great goal from a free kick and taking part in three more. It means the gap at the top of the table remains two points after Barcelona found [...]

Spanish Sports News

Spain has a good draw in the 2012 European Cup
Spain now knows her rivals in the classification phase of the 2012 European Cup, and will meet the Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania and Liechtenstein. It’s regarded as an easy start for the team which will be defending its victory in the tournament in 2008.
Spain remains ranked [...]

Spanish Sports News

Cristiano Ronaldo sent off after breaking Mtiliga’s nose
Two goals and a red card for Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2-0 win for Real Madrid against Málaga. The red card came 20 minutes from the end of the game for an aggression by Ronaldo on Patrick Jan Mtiliga who was elbowed in the face and has a [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

In fact, in December 2009, the sale of homes fell 0.3% on-year rate, its lowest descent of the latest figures, launched in January 2008
The sales of house’s in Spain fell by 24.9% in 2009 compared to 2008, with a total of 414,811
In 2009, the sale of new homes fell by 20.6% over the previous year, [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

In a somewhat shocking and worrying statement, a leading Spanish lender has declared the country’s real estate sector is ‘bankrupt’.
According to Santos Gonzalez Sanchez, president of the Spanish Mortgage Association who speaks on behalf of the country’s mortgage lenders, there is so much debt in the industry that finance for property development has effectively dried [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

The overseas homes market may have already entered recovery in some parts of Spain as one developer has started putting its prices up.
Key Mare in Almeria has seen sales rise by 30% in the last three months and now has more international customers than Spanish ones. The company raised prices across its seven resorts in [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Despite the awful weather conditions our students have been very active this term In early February 32 students spent 4 days in the Sierra Nevada skiing and snowboarding. They greatly enjoyed both the sporting activities and the possibility of socialising across year groups and with accompanying staff.  Fourteen sixth formers and two staff spent 5 [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Toddlers on Tour Spain (T.O.T..S.) has a new weekly feature on their website , Starting from this month – a  different product from the rental range will be on promotion and a discount will apply if it´s booked during that week. (an advance booking for the promoted item will be accepted).
The newly promoted product will [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The obligation, set in a new Royal Decree, applies to cash and credit card payments
Friday’s cabinet meeting in Madrid saw a new Royal Decree approved in the fight against fiscal fraud.
Under the new legislation the banks will have to systematically inform the Spanish tax authorities every year of any movements of cash or credit card [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

“Life in Color”  :: “La Vida en Color” - an art exhibition by artist Anna DiGesu

When trying to describe Anna Digesu’s work, the word that springs to mind most is ‘color’. Anna is a master colorist, using her expressive, fluid style to capture her figures in fleeting moments and with gentle poise. Working in [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

TheTrentham Shakespeare Company is coming to our area to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The company was formed in 2006 and the company’s first production was in fact A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and included many of the actors who will be performing here in Spain.
Director and founder of thge company is Brian Rawlins, who began his [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

3rd to 13th: Romania Exhibition, Municipal Library, Monday to Friday 17.00 to 20.00h
Friday 6th: Cinema: Vacaciones de Ferragost (Romanian film), Auditorium 21.00h, entrance 3 euros.
Saturday 7th: V Autumn Polyphonic Conference 2009, Motril Choir, La Maison de France and Salobreña Choir. Auditorium, 21.00h Free admission.
Friday 13th: Road Show, (theatrical representation of a road accident, Auditorium, 12.30 [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Tapas is the name of a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine. They may be cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or warm (such as puntillitas, which are battered, fried baby squid).
In North America and the United Kingdom, tapas have evolved into an entire cuisine. In these countries, patrons of tapas restaurants can [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Hidden down a backstreet but only 20 metres from the beach is a little gem.  I’m not sure I should tell everyone as I feel I want to keep this to myself for fear of spoiling things.  There is, in Castell de Ferro a renaissance happening.  The big wide wide world has finally getting a [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

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One of my local bars Torrera Alta is just off the main road from Castell de Ferro toward Lujar in the Costa Tropical. Now wait for it…. run by a South African (Leon) and his Spanish wife (Anna) they have a [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Does Spain have the slowest and most expensive internet broadband service in the whole of Europe? According to a group who should probably know better than most, the Spanish Association of Internet Users, it certainly does. In the first month of this year, the Association complained about the declining number of ADSL connections (the most [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Motril and sugar are synonymous.
Now I don’t consider myself obese but at 19 stone I am considered morbidly obese on the BMI index.  A few to many years without a gym, too much amber nectar and a perchance for a curry could have contributed to my needing to “lose a bit” I agree.
It doesn’t help [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

I have just read that visitor numbers are down by about a quarter, recently Sevilliana got everyone’s bills wrong and  Iberbanda lost service for weeks on end.
So what is the common denominator between these events?
Lack of service (in the case of Iberbanda, in more ways than one).
It just seems that the Spanish in general either
1) [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Legal action against a masturbation workshop has been thrown out of court in Extremadura
Clean hands no, Masturbation yes.
The Prosecutors’ Office of the High Court in Extremadura has archived the case brought by the far right wing group ‘Manos Limpias’ (Clean hands) against masturbation classes being promoted by the Junta de Extremadura.
The classes aimed at adolescents, [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The promoters of this club, the company Vimetera SL, then appealed to the court of administrative law number 2 of Girona, which ruled against them
Catalunya – Building company wins planning appeal to build 100 room brothel
A ruling from the Superior Tribunal de Justicia de Catalunya requires the City of La Jonquera (Girona) grant planning permission [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The man was said to be riding the tricycle in a ‘dangerous fashion’
The Guardia Civil from San Juan de Azalfarnache in Sevilla have denounced a person for riding a children’s toy tricycle ‘in a dangerous fashion’.
The rider was coming down a slope in the El Manchón Industrial Estate in Sevilla ‘at full speed and without [...]