Autumn in Madrid’s Retiro Park |
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Notes from Spain
Ben Curtis and Marina Diez
Description: Notes from Spain is all about bringing you closer to the wonderful experience of life and travel in Spain. Our podcasts (on-line radio shows), articles and video cover all aspects of Spanish culture,
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Sunny Madrid and Spain Books |
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Photo – Madrid’s Retiro Park It’s still unseasonably sunny here – I mean it’s sunny every day, hardly a cloud in the sky – no snow this year. That was one of the things that most impressed me about Madrid when I first moved here 13 years ago, opening the curtains in the morning (or the shutters, to be more precise), and seeing bright blue skies, rather than the grey gloom I’d been used to for 3 years of London winters previously. You can read about that big move in Errant in Iberia, and get ready for your own forays into Spain with our Spanish learning conversations! If you are a Spain books lover and have read Errant already, then check out our list of favourites, and an interesting new venture, books4spain.com – good reviews on great Spain books. |
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Still In Love With Asturias… |
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Lago Ercina, The Higher of the Covadonga Lakes. Playa de Cuevas del Mar (Map) Asturias is still as green and majestic as ever (as if it would have changed!) Where else in the world can you leave such a stunning coastline and in under an hour be high up in mountains so impressive that they even look... |
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Amazon.es Update: Amazon Now Open in Spain |
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Update: Amazon.es is now open. As many online commenters are complaining, many products are significantly cheaper in Amazon UK and USA stores (especially electronics, cameras, dvds etc), but they are missing an important point. Amazon.es will still thrive here simply because it is in Spanish... |
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Dirty Carpet |
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We went to look at a house to rent recently. It was great, lovely parquet floor in the big salon, plenty of light. Then we went upstairs and found dirty, stained carptets. This is odd. Spanish people, in general do not like carpet. Trying to rent a house with carpet in Madrid is practically insane... |
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Amazon to Open in Spain – Big Changes Ahead? |
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According to the press, Amazon is due to open in Spain on Sept. 15th. This is hardly surprising – all over Madrid you see MRW vans delivering Amazon packages every day, and it isn’t just expats like me buying English books. Many Spanish people have been turning to Amazon for some time to... |
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