To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small…
The path less traveled.
To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small…
Last week I tweeted a snippet from my 11 year-old son’s corrected math test, in which his answer was incorrectly marked wrong.
Ben Brooks [referenced a Boston Globe article](http://brooksreview.net/2013/12/us-struggling-to-keep-pace-in-broadband-service/) discussing the poor state of internet access in the USA. For example, in Riga, Latvia (Eastern Europe), average…
After the morning news show interviewed him, more reporters came to the house this afternoon to shoot a second segment for the evening news.
In convenient chronological order: 1. At the Makalu office in Marbella, we used to have Jazztel 6mb ADSL. 2. A Movistar salesman offered us 30mb…
And so it goes—I’ve now worked with every major telecommunications provider in Spain, and have had serious problems with all of them. Here’s the latest about Movistar.
Peugeot builds out a major new commercial space here in the industrial zone of Marbella. Is this good or bad economic news?
We were recently invited to attend the Christmas lunch of the “Hockey Alcalá” mountain running team, at the Bodega Marcelino Serrano, in Alcalá la Real, in the Jaén region of Andalucia. What a great find, for high quality, economical wines.
Having a stash of used Apple equipment to sell — including a Mac Pro, MacBook, two 24″ Cinema Displays and a 23″ Cinema Display — I took an ad out on the Spanish “Segundamano.es” website. And, oh boy has it been an “experience”.
So far, I have had no less than *four* exchanges like this one.
We’ve recently enrolled our children in two camps, for this upcoming summer — one in Europe (here in Spain), and one in the United States. What a cultural difference!
An office on the beach and next to El Tinglao — perhaps one of the best kept secrets in Marbella, Spain. Fresh fish, barbecued meat,…
Spainish president Rodriguez Zapatero has been meeting with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to discuss reforms necessary to address the battered Spanish economy. One of Merkel’s…
I am about to tell a story that, for me, is simply surreal. If it hadn’t actually happened to me, I probably wouldn’t believe it. It’s about my recent attempt to acquire a microSIM card for my iPad, from Vodafone España.
If you want to survive living in Andalucia, in southern Spain, you’re going to need, in addition to a huge amount of patience, the following:…
My friend Neal, who lives in the United States, broke his finger recently, and was telling me about his treatment. I was kinda shocked at…
