Costa Tropical News

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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 [...]

Spanish Sports News

Real Madrid miss on the chance to go top
There was a chance for Real Madrid to go top of the Primera Liga last night after Barcelona were held 1-1 at home by Villarreal on Saturday, but the match for Real away at Osasuna ended goalless and the opportunity was missed.
Osasuna played a physical game and [...]

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 & Spanish Property News

Like everyone else in Spain, I have just received, from a UK relative, a cutting from the Daily Telegraph entitled: ‘Expats threaten a villa “siege” as Spanish serve demolition orders’. This headline is enough to send shivers of fear down any Spanish property owner’s back.
In fact, this story concerns some eight properties in Spain sitiuated [...]

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

The “Mercadillo Cultural” located on and around the campo de futbol in Los Carlos, began in Spring 2009 and is more than just a Car Boot Sale!
The collaboration between residents and the ayuntamiento de Lujar intended the event to be as much of a social occasion as a standard market.
You will find a large variety [...]

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

Monday 1st: Procession Cristo del Castillo, held in the old town.
Thursday 5th: Conference: Darwin and the Theory of Evolution by Pedro Gómez García Professor of Philosophy, at the Casa de la Cultura 20.00h
Monday 9th: Concert, flute duet, Casa de la Cultura 20.00h
11, 12th & 13th: Talks on Alcoholism. Casa de la Cultura 20.00h
Friday 13th: Flamenco, [...]

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

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 [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

He must pay 300 Euro for an offence of unfair harassment
A teacher in Valencia has been fined 300 € for calling one of his pupils up to the blackboard and mocking him in front of the entire class, year six at a junior school in the province. Europa Press said the class burst into laughter [...]