Spain Magazine: Evening Times: That dream Costa home needn't cost the earth
THOUSANDS of Scots who travel to Spain every year dream of leaving grey Glasgow days behind them and living abroad for good.However, making a new home in a different country is far from a holiday. When you take on such an important investment, it's vital to have a committed and trustworthy overseas property firm, such as Sunscot, behind you.Peter Hughes, Sunscot's CEO, and his wife, Eileen, have made their home in Spain, advising and assisting potential...
Spain Magazine: DALI'S FORTUNE IS WILLED TO SPAIN, MAGAZINE SAYS
MADRID - A Spanish magazine said yesterday that Salvador Dali had bequeathed his paintings and properties to the Spanish state. It said the eccentric surrealist painter had changed his original will, which had ordered that his works should be shared between Spain and his northeast home region, Catalonia.The unconfirmed report by the magazine Cambio 16 came a week before Dali's will is to be opened.Dali died a week ago, aged 84. His closest living relative is his sister Ana...
Spain Magazine: Independent on Sunday: Sports active: What's so special about Tarifa? The answer is blowing in the wind...
The blaze of colour on view at the beach is amazing. It's as if a multicoloured quilt has been laid over the sea. The colours shift and swap places, dip down and reappear as if from nowhere. Tarifa, perched on the southern tip of Spain where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, has been a windsurfing mecca for a while, and it shows.Wind is what defines this Andalucian town. Or rather, two winds, which blow through it year-round: the levante, from the east, and the poniente,...
Spain Magazine: Independent on Sunday: Building A Library: Andalucia
Andalucia, Spain's once-grand southernmost province, is sadly now known as much for the concrete homogeneity of the Costa del Sol as the hushed beauty of the Alhambra Palace. But its cultural heritage, from colonisation by the Phoenicians, Romans and Moors to rule by the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons, has spawned writing at once formidable and eclectic. Given its affinity with England, it is unsurprising that the starting point for anybody interested in serious literature about the...
Spain Magazine: The Mail on Sunday (United Kingdom): Majorcan nest for the Queen of rock chicks
Suzi Quatro is hardly the wild child of rock 'n' roll these days. Less spray-on leathers and platform heels than feet up on the sofa, as she presents her weekly Radio 2 slot Rockin' With Suzi Q, which celebrates the golden era of Fifties rock 'n' roll.And when even that gets too much, she heads off to her retreat on Majorca, which she bought two years ago with her German husband Rainer Haas. 'It's a new...