World Of Tourism

Tomorrow, Friday 30th July, an exhibition of artworks by two foreign residents of Mazarrón will open in two rooms of the exhibition space of Mazarrón Town Hall and will continue until Saturday 21st August.The two artists are:- Patrick Durrant, whose artworks for this exhibition have the theme of "The Essence", designed to illustrate how people interact with each other as well as some watercolours

I am not often shocked when I read a news report, and there may well be other aspects to the story not included in the news report, but this report of a British man abandoning his 61-year old mother in an hospital in Torrevieja has succeeded. On two occasions when the lady was returned too the son's home by ambulance the son refused to 'take delivery' (i.e. he refused to have his mother back into

I leave Nairn for about a month beginning Wednesday, intially travelling to the Netherlands for some family celebrations (birthdays and an anniversary), then at the beginning of next week on to Spain, where I'll be until early September. For only the second time since I moved to Nairn from Culloden (near Inverness) in 2000, I shall be away during the Nairn Highland Games weekend, so hope that

Francisca Disla Pascual'la Paca'16 Janaury 1899 - 9 July 2008- Rest in Peace -I came across this story in laopiniondemurcia.es here, to mark the death at the ripe old age of 109 years of Francisca Disla Pascual, a resident of Yecla in the far north-east of Murcia region.Apparently she retained a prodigious memory and had enormous strength despite her small stature and slight build,

A 28 year old transexual from Jaén province has had his application to join the Spanish military turned doing owing to ... ahem ... the complete absence of his 'bits'. The examining doctors cited a regulation in justification (Resolution 542/3802/2007 of the Armed Forces Exclusion Code). Apparently his female breasts were removed last year and he awaits a full male genitalia transplant.Diversity

No matter how many distasteful things one comes across, there are always - human nature being what it is - new things that come to light which make one wonder what makes some people tick. The latest I have come across (admittedly nothing like so horrendous as the recent revelation from Austria about a man keeping his daughter in a cellar for decades and fathering 7 children by her) gets a mention