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2010 MotoGP Calendar
The MotoGP season gets started on April 11th in Qatar with a floodlit night race and hopes that the Spanish riders Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa can improve on last year’s second and third final positions. Spain is again hosting its fair share of races with Jerez on May 2nd, Catalunya on [...]
– Ampolla 20th March 2010
Saturday night, 9.00pm. About 200 people who had contributed in some way to the Mans Unidas charity through the year were seated in the Ampolla sports centre for the end of year get together. After a brief introduction by the evening the Chairlady made a short presentation of the activities of [...]
This Munchie is not given to softness and sensitivity. I wouldn’t have believed that “romance” was in its repertoire, but I was wrong. If the Munchie were a human it would be the tough no nonsense type; of few words and not the sort of folk you would want to meet anywhere after dark.
So you [...]
by Helen Rowe
This is the story of a house, not any old house but our old house. Let’s go back a stage to the year prior to moving to Spain. We decided on South Catalunya but thereafter there was little consensus. Week after week of trips over to this area from the UK and more [...]
After living in Catalunya for a few years I have got to know a few of the locals and they have proved to be some of the friendliest and most supportive people I have met in my many years of international travel.
Now I´m retired but getting to know these folk has helped me understand what [...]
By Brian Hall
O.K. you lot at the back, stop yawning and just before you turn the page I know that history is like so much dust on the top of a cupboard, best left alone and certainly not to draw your fingers through! But just a minute, now that you live in another country than [...]
At last spring is here, time to brighten the garden and in doing so, lift ones spirit. There is nothing quite like buying annuals, just to decorate and give a different appearance to certain crucial areas of the garden.
Many, so called annuals will last me for years here in Catalunya, and I have long since [...]
This is the first in a two part article, with the rest to come next month.
The time has come! You have decided to get a new cat. Or maybe, a new cat has decided to join your garden of Eden and become your new companion.
A kitty is so easy to [...]
“There are no good or bad foods, everything depends on the amount and frequency of consumption”
ANGEL
Cow’s milk and its derivatives (and also sheep, goat, etc.) are among the foods that generate most controversy, nutritionally speaking. Some diets speak of the wonders of milk, while others remind us that it is [...]
By Mike Smith
Since writing last month, sport on the river has been fairly slow; with the river being two to three feet up, it has been a case of fishing the slacks and sitting it out, waiting for a bite. I have found that using a feeder packed with ground bait, maggots and worms (using [...]
