Spanish Lifestyles

General interest articles for the Axarquia area, from Bull Fighting to a Malaga C.F football match. All providing an insight as to what the Axarquia has to offer.

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La Guarderia in Competa

La Guardería Matrona Angeles CabraMunicipal de CómpetaThe Cómpeta Guardería (nursery) sits on the short road opposite the post office. The bright, colourful classrooms contain...
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Bodegas Bentomiz

A new vineyard in the AxarquíaYou come to the Costa and expect to drink wine. Stunned by the low prices you bid farewell to...

Sunshine, Clouds & Silver Linings Part Five

Passport and Proof-Of-LifeSue had agreed with our daughter Clare that both of us would travel to the UK in order to baby-sit our 15...

Beasts

Big Mouth speaks out on 'bullfighting bull' and other animal issues.Spaniards are animals to animals, brutal to beasts. That’s not in question. Puppies dumped...

Here Comes The Sun

Rose Jones, on how to avoid drying out in the heatYes, you wait through the winter looking forward to the intensely deep blue skies,...
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Cirque du Soleil

 Telling people that I had just been to see Cirque du Soleil in Malaga without exception elicited two responses; those who had not seen...
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Competa Football Tournament

This time last year we lost five on the bounce! So have The Grapevine F.C impoved? After the excitement of our end of season...

Casa la Mina Race for Life

 Competa - Casa la Mina Sunday, June 1st and finally the sun shone. A small trickle of walkers began to arrive and register for...

Drive Thru

 Big mouth has an opinion (or several) on speeding fines (and parking fines and petrol taxes...).This time, though, he doesn't seem quite able to...