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    New Community Forum Launched

    The Costa Tropical News have launched a new community forum www.costatropicalinfo.com.
    The forum is open to anyone, anywhere who has an interest in the Costa Tropical region of Spain.
    We hope the forum will develop into a focal point for users as the key source of practical help, information and advice.

    Spanish Sports News

    Spain Weekend Football Results – Monday February 8 2010

    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

    Spain Weekend Football Results – Monday January 25 2010

    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

    Spain Weekend Football Results – Monday January 4 2010

    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

    Spanish Property Industry ‘Bankrupt’?

    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

    Spanish Developer Increases Prices

    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

    Another Nail in the Coffin for Spanish Property?

    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

    Shakespeare in the Costa Tropical

    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

    Salobreña in November

    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

    Almuñecar in November

    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

    What are Tapas

    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

    Feeling a bit Chilli?

    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

    Pork Kebabs and Moroccan Style Dining

    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

    The internet leaving Spain behind

    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

    How Sweet is my life?

    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

    Service Please!

    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 News

New Community Forum Launched

The Costa Tropical News have launched a new community forum www.costatropicalinfo.com. The forum is open to anyone, anywhere who has an ...

Win great prizes with the Costa Tropical News

In the February Edition there are two great prizes to be won. A FREE Spanish will provided by Marbella Solicitors and ...

Win a Free meal for 2 people including Wine – Competition Closed

Cafe Bar Garcia in Castell de Ferro are offering the chance to win a free meal for 2 people including ...

Jet2 Competition Winner – Peter Halatyn

As a result of the success of Jet2.com’s loyalty scheme, myJet2 has also been extended to expats living in Spain ...

Missing British climber found in the Sierra Nevada

The 44 year old had suffered a broken leg and had been reported missing by his wife on Sunday A 44 ...

Talks underway to increase passenger volume at Granada airport

Seven companies are being approached by the provincial government The Diputación provincial government in Granada wants to see more flights operating ...

The Costa Tropical News is 3 years old

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 ...

Drunk driver arrested after fatal accident in Almuñécar

His teenage passenger died when the car crashed down a ravine A 19 year old driver injured in a fatal traffic ...

Two brothers killed in shootout in Granada restaurant

It happened in Ogíjares at Monday lunchtime The triple murder in a shooting outside a prison in Cantabria on Monday morning ...

Trial by jury for brutal murder of Granada student

Lamyae was found dead in March last year with more than 20 stab wounds in her body A 52 year old ...

Trevélez fraudster apologises for the money he swindled from his neighbours

The 'jamonero' was arrested in the Caribbean after fleeing there with the money they invested in his companies The man known ...

Costa Tropical Business News

Costa Tropical Business News – February 2010

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 & Spanish Property News

Spanish Property Industry ‘Bankrupt’?

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 [...]

Spanish News

Spanish costas feel heat crisis hits Spain ’s all-important tourism sector

“The English-style pubs and cafés have really felt the impact,” he says
Spanish costas feel heat crisis hits Spain ’s all-important tourism sector
As befits the civic leader of a city made famous for its cheap and cheerful holidays, Agustín Navarro, Benidorm’s mayor, seeks to put a positive spin on the crisis in Spain’s all-important tourism sector.
Despite [...]

Ex-Pat Information

Changes to EHIC regulations affect British pensioners in Spain

The UK will be responsible for issuing the cards to UK state pensioners resident in other EU countries from next May
Changes are underway to the system of issuing the European Health Insurance Cards to British expatriates living in Spain who are in receipt of a UK state pension. UK state pensioners are eligible for free [...]

Newspapers

Spain Papers Review – Monday February 8 2010

Economic concerns dominate many of the papers in Spain again
El Mundo headlines that the Government is heading out on a ‘road show’ to calm the markets which have been attacking Spain over the past week.
Minister for Tax and the Economy, Elena Salgado and the Secretary of State for the Economy, José Manuel Campa, are to [...]

The Stupid side of Costa Tropical Life

Catalunya – Building company wins planning appeal to build 100 room brothel

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 [...]

What's on Where

Shakespeare in the Costa Tropical

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 [...]

Spanish Sports News

Spain Weekend Football Results – Monday February 8 2010

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 [...]