Costa Tropical News

I have a dream…. Not just a life changing speech from Martin Luther King Jr but something akin to that happened 5 years ago when we first bought our property here.  It would take another 2 years before we had relocated and rested before the Costa Tropical News would come to fruition for the inaugural edition.
Now 3 years on we [...]

Spanish Sports News

Barcelona failed to score in Russia and now face a tough qualification
Despite being held to a 1-1 draw by Stuttgart, Sevilla have become the first Spanish side to qualify for the last 16 in the Champions League. Manolo Jiménez’s side went ahead with a goal from Jesús Navas in the 13th minute, and qualify despite [...]

Spanish Sports News

There were no more giant killings in the King’s Cup games played on Wednesday
Rumblings continue over the future of Manuel Pellegrini as the manager of Real Madrid following the side’s 4-0 defeat by lowly Alcorcón in the King’s Cup on Tuesday night.
The trainer is expected to remain in place for the next league game against [...]

Spanish Sports News

Real Madrid and Barcelona now lead the league with 12 points
The play was reported to be poor, but Real Madrid came away with a 0-2 win from Villarreal on Wednesday night.
The match did have a spectacular goal from Cristiano Ronaldo. The second goal came from Kaká from the penalty spot. Villareal suffered from being a [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

The “A Place in the Sun” exhibition confirms that 60% of purchasers prefer Spain and think prices are at rock bottom
The hoped-for green shoots of the economy in the UK were showing their heads in Birmingham last weekend, when thousands of people turned out for the “A Place in the Sun” exhibition held at the [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

Spain was brought to its knees when its Spanish property market collapsed. With a public deficit nudging 10 percent of GDP, Spain’s government is testing the waters on a series of recovery measures – from improved social protection to green stimulus.
Last week saw workers across Spain protest at layoffs from the factories of bathroom manufacturer [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

Over the summer months, the larger UK property portals reported best-ever numbers for visitors and enquiries. This is surprising for two reasons:

There is normally a summer lull in traffic to property-related web sites.
We’re supposed to be in the middle of a recession.

Perhaps even more surprisingly, visitors to Kyero.com increased by an incredible 48% comparing August [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

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Costa Tropical Business News

A New Year at Almunecar International School.
Our A level and GCSE results came out in August and we were delighted, yet again, to have a 100% pass rate at A Level, with  55% of all passes at A2 being A or B and 76% gaining A to C. Year 13 students are now moving on [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Comsat
Are you experiencing problems with technology?..  Satellite system not working, PC playing up?…  Call Steve at Comsat and you can be sure of prompt and efficient service.  Whether it is just a dish re-alignment, a new system install, a PC issue or general advice, Comsat can deliver.  As an ex-paratrooper, Steve has a head for [...]

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

We are a small group of poker enthusiasts and we are putting together a poker tournament at Legends in Salobrena on the 24th of October. The game will be €25 + €5 No Limit Hold’em with an estimated price pool of €700.
The event starts at 8 PM and beginners are welcome.
Legends offer a special optional [...]

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

The Costa Tropical News – No.1 for News and Information on  the Costa Tropical.
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

There are only 300 jobs on offer
A new Ikea store is due to open in Jerez next spring, whose area of 36,000 square metres, La Voz de Cádiz reports, will make it the Swedish multi-national’s largest store in Andalucía. Their two other stores are in Sevilla and Málaga, which opened in 2004 and 2007 respectively.
Jerez [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The 44 year old from Santander now faces criminal charges
A 44 year old man has been arrested in Santander for taking on the traffic fines from 24 of his friends and neighbours in just over a year so that they did not lose any points from their licence. The infractions took place not only in [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

There were several examples of the lighter side of EU Election Day across Spain on Sunday
In Barcelona the local police had to go to the homes of several supervisors of a polling station who overslept.
In Huelva, one of the voting table’s spokesmen said he could not read or write, but his substitute did not want [...]