Living in Spain

I asked for a café con leche, using as few words as possible because I was not in a talkative mood. My coffee arrived in a cup and saucer, and I thought nothing of it until my daughter walked into the bar and asked for the same. Hers arrived in a glass.
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‘Could I have one like that, please,’ I said, pointing to the half bread roll on the plate beside me on the counter, ‘half, with olive oil and garlic?’
‘No,’ she snapped. ‘It has to be a half or a whole bread roll.’
‘That’s what I mean,’ I explained. [...]

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There is no place quite like Marbella in the early summer. Breakfast in the fresh morning air, toast dripping in virgin olive oil with garlic, the usual sounds of children screaming and adults talking, the clatter of crockery as the waiters clear tables, because in this part of the world we can still enjoy the [...]

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I’ve just read an article by a regular contributor to El País newspaper about a twenty-five-year-old Majorcan girl who won 126 million euros in a lottery recently. The writer wonders what will become of the girl, given that many people who win unusually large amounts of money end up ruining their lives. It reminded me [...]

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