It seems that people who took early retirement and came to Spain with the hope of free medical care are going to have to think again, according to this article in the Telegraph.
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The local council in Roses is taking a number of measures to handle the water shortage caused by the drought. Among other things, it is forbidden for private individuals to use tap water for filling swimming pools, watering gardens, or washing down terraces and garages.

I’ve just found the most amazing website: www.gutenburg.net It contains over 20,000 out-of-copyright books as free downloads, ranging from simple text files to audio books. Lots of classics from Kipling, Jane Austen, H G Wells, Jukes Verne, Mark Twain - an almost endless list.
It could not be simpler to use and the average novel [...]

The more I read the more I realise that our universe is stranger than we believe, or even stranger than we can believe.
1) Dark matter and the cosmological web (see below). Is a local branch of the Web bringing Force or Dark Matter to a place near you ? Remember, this isn’t fiction.

Imagine if, as you reached the age of 65, with another ten or twenty years of growing older and facing the usual geriatric problems, there was an alternative. You could sign up for an option ten years ahead - thus, at 75 - to join an off-world army and fight in interstellar wars. Implicit in [...]

” I note the problems being experienced in some parts of Spain with obtaining the Resident Cert.
In Fuengirola, since the change over, they have operated an appointment by phone system, with an English speaking volunteer; thus avoiding queues. They have also recently installed a dedicated line, for English callers (952 197 114) to reduce further [...]

I suppose everyone knows how to get cheap phone calls to the UK from Spain.
You dial 700-500-700, wait for the announcement from the computer, then dial the full UK number (starting 00-44-). These calls are priced at 4.60 cents a minute to anywhere in the world. Bills appear on your usual Telefonica bill as calls [...]

this is quite funny….
obviously not a high percentage of English speakers in Terrassa!
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Once upon a time……
Foreigners living in Spain all carried a small plastic card, the proof of being resident in Spain, and the card was known as the “Residencia” - a useful document since residents in Spain enjoyed many tax advantages over non-resident.
And then one day, our EU Masters in Brussels decided it was somehow [...]

This is a panoramic high resolution photograph of the Arc de Triomf in Barcelona which can be zoomed into - well worth a look! (requires Quick Time to be installed- which most people will already have on their PCs.) Drag the mouse to move around the photo, hold down shift and click the mouse to [...]