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MOJÁCAR TOWN COUNCIL COLLABORATES IN VALPARAISO FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

Mojácar Town Council, following its tradition of supporting and promoting art and culture, has approved a collaboration with the Valparaiso Foundation at an extraordinary council meeting, with scholarships being awarded annually to artists from different creative disciplines.

The Valparaiso Foundation was created in 1990 by Paul and Beatrice Beckett in an old olive oil mill. It is set amongst orange groves, olive and almond trees and is located at the foot of the hill upon which the ancient town of Mojácar was once perched.

Each month, eight residential scholarships are to be awarded to artists from around the world.

During their stay, they will find a quiet place to concentrate on their own particular art, free from distractions, enabling them to create work in a unique environment.

The scholarship program of Mojácar Town Council, adopted in this extraordinary plenary session, is the re-launch of an essential part of the spirit of the Foundation, through which hundreds of artists have lived for a time in Mojácar throughout these years. At the same time,

the town picks up on the energy of the intellectual and artistic avant-garde, serving, once again, as a framework and inspiration for young talent whilst confirming its unique village character.

At the end of the scholarship, the artists are asked donate one of their works to the Town, and musicians will offer a public performance. In the case of texts or audio visual works, they will be invited to leave copies at the Town Hall, whilst participating in a reading or discussion of the work. Similarly, publications and works created as a result of their stay in the Valparaiso Foundation should mention their scholarship granted by the municipality of Mojácar.

The artists on the scholarship are also asked to be involved, both individually and collectively, in activities organized by the Town Hall and the Valparaiso Foundation.

This proposal, presented by the Popular Party of Mojácar, was approved unanimously by all the other parties represented in the Municipal Council.

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Córdoba to seek UNESCO heritage status for Medina Azahara

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CÓRDOBA'S spectacular Medina Azahara monument will apply to become a UNESCO heritage site next year. Secretary of State for culture José María Lassalle presided the latest meeting of the southern city's heritage committee on Friday and reports that the decision to become a candidate in 2017 was 'unanimous', with 'no hesitation' and 'applauded warmly by all those present'.

The committee has to highlight the 'exceptional' nature of the structure to be in with a chance of gaining the UNESCO tag, and is now working on ways of doing so. Lassalle says the Medina Azahara is a 'unique historical and artistic complex' which is of special interest, not only for Spain, but for western civilisation as a whole.

The Medina Azahara – which in Arabic

was Madīnat al-Zahrā – was a citypalace commissioned by the Caliph Abd al-Rahman III al-Nâsir about eight kilometres from the city centre in the Sierra Morena mountains.

Legend has it that he named it after his favourite woman, Azahara, although its name translates from Arabic as 'bright city' - Madīnat, or Medina being the name for a town or city centre and, nowadays, the historic quarters of existing urban areas.

Founded in the year 936 in what was then the Caliphate of Córdoba, the Madīnat al-Zahrā has been dubbed 'the Versailles of the Middle Ages'.

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Victims associations come together to mark 12th anniversary of Madrid bombings

Twelve years after Islamists bombed commuter trains in Madrid, Spain’s four victim associations united for the first time in the capital on Friday for a joint tribute to the 193 victims of Europe’s bloodiest terrorist attack. “Myriam would ask you today to take a step forward against terrorism,” said Ángeles Pedraza, president of the Terrorism Victim Association (AVT), in reference to her own daughter, who died in the attacks.

Speaking at an act in the Forest of Remembrance, a memorial garden inside Retiro Park, Pedraza also alluded to the recent release from prison of Arnaldo Otegi, a veteran political leader in Basque radical pro-ETA circles.

We have never demanded revenge, but we will never give up on justice MARIMAR BLANCO, PRESIDENT OF THE VICTIMS OF TERRORISM FOUNDATION “We need societies that reject those who receive murderers like heroes,” she said, warning against “those who are trying to launder the past.” Earlier in the day, a string quartet played Mozart’s Requiem in Sol Square in front of numerous tourists and passersby.

At 9am, with all the city’s church bells ringing in memory of the dead, regional premier Cristina Cifuentes and city Mayor Manuela Carmena laid down a wreath at the foot of the building that houses the regional government.

“Any one of us could have been on those trains, and that day we became aware that we are all potential victims,

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and that it may be anybody’s turn to cry,” said Pilar Manjón, head of the 11-M Association. Standing next to her were Marimar Blanco, president of the Victims of Terrorism Foundation, Ángeles Domínguez, of the Association to Help Victims of 11-M, and Ángeles Pedraza, of the Victims of Terrorism Association.

Pedraza said it was a “legend” that the various associations have a bad working relationship, and focused instead on their unity.

“What brings us together is the same thing: the pain over relatives who were taken from us,” said Pedraza.

Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday that Spain will continue to defend the lives, the rights and the freedoms of all citizens in the face of terrorism, and said it is “very comforting” that practically all parties are together on this issue.

In the Basque city of San Sebastián, regional premier Iñigo Urkullu, of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), presided a silent gathering to pay tribute to the victims of terrorism. In Barcelona, a minute of silence was observed at Sant Jaume square.

The European Commission on Friday issued a statement condemning “all forms of terrorism in the world; we remember the victims with respect and honor.” http://elpais.com/

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Biggest-ever fake cigarette heist in Spain: 88 tonnes seized in Andalucía

POLICE and customs in Andalucía have seized 88 tonnes of contraband tobacco worth €14 million in what is said to have been Spain's largest smuggling heist of its type in history.

Inquiries started in November, when 11 people were arrested and 41 tonnes of roll-your-own tobacco was seized in operations throughout various provinces in Andalucía.

It was manufactured in three warehousess in Almería – one in the city, one in Huércal and one in Benahadux in the province - and distributed to mainly southern-Spanish companies and to individuals in Spain via courier service.

Cigarette tubes with forged brand names were also seized, along with flavourings used to copy the taste of well-known types of cigarette, plus equipment for making them up, invoices and other documents, and several vehicles.

Police said at the time that they had

confiscated enough tobacco to make eight million packets of contraband cigarettes, or 800,000 cartons.

Their inquiries began after the association of tobacconist shops in the province of Jaén reported an unusual drop in sales.

Working with police from Poland, Estonia and Bulgaria, the Guardia Civil in Andalucía continued the investigations and have since found nearly two tonnes of loose tobacco and fake cigarettes in shops in Linares and Santiago de Pontones (Jaén province).

Ongoing raids throughout the region have led to a total of 88 tonnes being seized and a further six arrests.

They were said to have been buying the tobacco in plant format from a company which had eluded health and safety checks by claiming it was using the goods for purposes not related to smoking. thinkspain.com

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Spain fears flood of refugees with closure of Balkan route

Jorge Fernández Díaz, Spain’s acting interior minister said Spain was preparing to see new routes open up across the western Mediterranean bringing waves of refugees to Spainish shores. “If one door is closed, they will seek other. The (people trafficking) mafias are bad but they are not stupid,” Fernández Díaz said in an interview on Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE on Friday.

“Spain should not drop its guard, we need to be prudent,” he said.

His comments came on the back of a European summit commitment to send migrants back to Turkey and close the heavily travelled Balkans route leaving thousands in crowded refugee camps in Greece. “So far the western Mediterranean route has been talked about because Spain is doing its job,” stated the minister, but this could change if the EU is unable to develop an “immigration policy and comprehensive asylum policy that tackles the cause of the problem .

Spain has now been spared the huge number of refugees fleeing Syria that have turned up on shores in Greece, where more than 130,000 migrants have arrived so far this year.

Although an increasing number of arrivals at the borders in Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s north African enclaves bordering Morocco, are Syrian refugees.

Spain’s caretaker government has agreed to support the EU plan for

refugees despite the issue not being put before parliament because an acting government is not subject to parliamentary control.Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he will go to the European Council of March 17th to endorse the agreement despite having no cross party support.

Except for the Popular Party, which has only 123 MPs in the 350 seat congress, all other parties have said they do support the European Union’s deal with Turkey to expel refugees.

On Thursday, Spain said it was willing to take in 450 Syrian and Iraqi refugees from Italy, Greece and Turkey on top of refugee relocation quota it has already agreed to.

“We have told the European Commission of our willingness to proceed with the immediate relocation of over 250 people from Turkey in a first stage and of another 150 refugees from Greece and a further 50 from Italy,” said Fernández Díaz at a press conference in Brussels.

Spain has already agreed to accept 14,931 refugees under a quota scheme devised by the EU in early September.

Meanwhile in Italy, authorities fear as many as 150,000 migrants could arrive in the region of Puglia from Greece after Serbia and Macedonia closed their borders on Wednesday. http://www.thelocal.es/

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At home and abroad: What does Europe mean?

The idea of Europe and the practicalities of Europe are, by and large, the differences between resident UK citzens and Brtish expats. For many back home its not unfair to say that Europe is seen as behemoth of bureacracy or the political right’s nightmare child that inflicts red tape, open borders and pedantic rules. For us, it’s a more complicated picture.

We need to be aware and accept that while living abroad has its many benefits, as well as some drawbacks, for many people back home the European Union is seen in a negative light. It’s background noise except for the seasonal holiday because most, unless they live in the EU, work in or with it, don’t see the benefits. The problem is even more acute for the younger generation who don’t recall the memories, or the aftermath, of a continent at war (its natural disposition for the last thousand years before 1945). It’s arrogant presumptiuon to say that if the political and economic structures of the EU were disolved then the cultural commonalities which bind us all today wouldn’t then descend into the realpolitik of bygone

days.

Expats needs to be aware that the argument back home isn’t governed by what’s logical, historical or what’s most beneficial to all UK citizens. It’s about a visceral gut reaction to the idea that we as a country exist as a irrelevent component rather than an equal partner in a European Union of familial nations. We must be wary of retreating into what, in the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston called Britain’s ‘splendid isolation’ from Europe. It might not be so splendid in the twenty-first.

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Weird Facts You Never Knew About Your Heart Sadness can break it, 3D printing can fix it

YOUR HEART WEIGHS LESS THAN A CAN OF SODA Your heart is about the size of two fists and weighs 10 ounces, or slightly less than a can of soda. Each valve— the parts that open and close to allow blood to flow in and out—is about the size of a half-dollar.

YOUR HEART IS AN OVERACHIEVER Each day, your heart beats about 100,000 times. Over a 70-year lifetime, that adds up to 2.5 billion pulses.

A POOR WORKOUT MAY SIGNAL A HEART PROBLEM Your workouts not only boost your heart health, they can also serve as your body’s “check engine” light.

If you spend a few sessions in a row struggling to run the same pace or complete the same circuit you usually do for no apparent reason, talk to your doctor.

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enough blood, which is an early sign of heart trouble, says Allan Stewart, M.D., director of aortic surgery and codirector of the valve center at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

THE BIG C WON’T STRIKE YOUR HEART Your workouts not only boost your heart health, they can also serve as your body’s “check engine” light.

If you spend a few sessions in a row struggling to run the same pace or complete the same circuit you usually do for no apparent reason, talk to your doctor.

This could signal that your heart’s not quite pumping enough blood, which is an early sign of heart trouble, says Allan Stewart, M.D., director of aortic surgery and codirector of the valve center at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

BAD SEX IS A BAD SIGN FOR YOUR HEART

If you go to your doctor because you can’t get or maintain an erection, you’ll probably get a heart test, too.

Erectile dysfunction serves as an early red-flag for heart problems. That’s because the tiny blood vessels in the penis can sustain damage before larger veins and arteries.

Men who have sex twice a week or more appear less likely to develop heart disease than those get busy once a month or less, according to a study in the American Journal of Cardiology.

Scientists think there may be two possible reasons behind the diminished risk: a good romp can count as a mini-workout, or frequent sex with the same partner is the sign of a solid, stress-relieving partnership—both of which are proven to improve heart health.

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'Stunning' operation regenerates eye's lens

A pioneering procedure to regenerate the eye has successfully treated children with cataracts in China.

More than half of all cases of blindness are caused by cataracts - the clouding of the eye's lens.

An implanted lens is normally needed to restore sight, but the operation described in Nature activated stem cells in the eye to grow a new one. Experts describe the breakthrough as one of the finest achievements in regenerative medicine.

The lens sits just behind the pupil and focuses light on to the retina. About 20 million people are blind because of cataracts, which become more common with age although some children are born with them.

Conventional treatment uses ultrasound to soften and break up the lens, which is then flushed out.

An artificial intraocular lens must then be implanted back into the eye, but this can result in complications, particularly in children. The technique developed by scientists at the Sun Yat-sen University and the University of California, San Diego removes the cloudy cataract from inside the lens via a tiny incision.

Crucially it leaves the outer surface - called the lens capsule - intact. This structure is lined with lens epithelial stem cells, which normally repair damage.

The scientists hoped that preserving them would regenerate the lens. The team reported that tests on rabbits and monkeys were successful, so the approach was trialled in 12 children. Within eight months the

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regenerated lens was back to the same size as normal.

Dr Kang Zhang, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: “This is the first time an entire lens has been regenerated. The children were operated on in China and they continue to be doing very well with normal vision.”

It also showed a dramatically lower complication rate “by almost every measure, supporting the superiority of the treatment”. However, he says larger trials are needed before it should become the standard treatment for patients. The procedure was tried in children because their lens epithelial stem cells are more youthful and more able to regenerate than in older patients. Yet the overwhelming majority of cataracts are

in the elderly. Dr Zhang says tests have already started on older pairs of eyes and says the early research “looks very encouraging”.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robin Ali from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, said the work was “stunning”. http://www.bbc.com/

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A daily facial massage also helps in promoting the youthfulness and tightening of the skin; they have proved to be the best at relieving stress and tension and promoting the lymph and blood circulation.

They can also reduce lines on the forehead and help, generally, to prevent blemishes and scars as well as unclogging pores.

A regular facial massage can helps to prevent sagging cheek muscles; the increase in muscle tone is also essential for reducing a double chin.

Massage can avert the forming of wrinkles, and those already formed can be reduced.

A key issue for many people is the way in which facial massage can alleviate puffiness and help to disperse eye bags.

For the best results, use a massage oil...

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Right, lets begin:

Take about two teaspoon of the oil into the palm of your hand and begin with the base of the throat gently massaging in upwards motion.

Massage gently with alternate hands.

Slowly progress towards your jaw line, and towards the base of your ears.

Massage in gentle circular motion into the cheeks and ears.

Then, beginning from the inner part of the eyes, gently tap the closed eyes with the fingers and move slowly towards the outer edge.

With the fingers, carefully massage gentle strokes outwards on the forehead starting from the centre. Continue by using both the hands and thus end up circular strokes over the forehead and temples.

If any oil remains on your face after you’ve finished, wipe it off gently with cotton wool pads.

Don’t do facial massage if...

You have scar tissue, bruised or inflamed skin...

Cuts, sores or boils on your face...

Eczema, psoriasis or acne - facial massage can worsen these situations...

If you wear contact lens, take them out before starting your massage...

The benefits of facial massage will really show during the winter months – your skin will be soft, smooth and glowing; the massage will penetrate deep into the layers of your skin, increasing the circulation and retaining moisture.

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Bermuda Triangle mystery explained?

Hello and welcome to CanDu Computer was unusable! But as much Bytes, Your Only Stop for solutions to Your as I don’t want to admit it, computer problems. My ‘drop-in’ clinic that’s all changed. Touch (like the way doctors used to be!) is at Maloans Bar (opposite the BP) on a Friday is quite good on Windows 10. But a little afternoon. To arrange an appointment history. In the early 2000s, when touch for another time or place use the Phone screens started becoming popular in cars number or Email address below, Skype and GPS devices, they didn’t quite work (Look for the name “saiminja”), Viber or like the touch screens we know today.

Whatsapp (use the phone number) for free advice concerning your computer. Sales They could only handle one point of touch and they were slow, and worse, inaccurate. pitch over and on to the topic for today.

Do you have a laptop that also has a Sometimes you had to press really hard to touch screen? Does it infuriate you because get it to register. Windows XP “tablets” had it is something from a SciFi movie? Well, similar problems–plus the targets were Microsoft, want you to believe that it is the impossibly small. To add to the frustration, best thing since sliced bread! The following has come directly from the Microsoft much of the hardware required you use a stylus for “touch” to work in the first place. website: If you have a computer with a It was bad, it was expensive, it worked touchscreen, you might find that gestures poorly, and it mostly just frustrated people. (motions that you make with one or two Windows Vista and 7 didn’t improve the fingers) are easier to use than a mouse, experience much, and 8 went much too far pen, or keyboard.

Use flicks to perform tasks! You don’t need in the other direction – It was too touchto tap or click a menu item or a button on a centric, making keyboard and mouse use toolbar to perform common tasks, such as difficult without the knowledge of shortcut copy, paste, undo, and delete. Instead, you keys. W8.1 was an improvement, but can use a flick of your finger. For example, an upward flick moves a page down, and pathetically little improvement and still a downward flick moves a page up. There missing the point. I find that this is what are two categories of flicks: navigational happens when we all get so single minded and editing. on a task that we stop looking at ALL the To learn how to use flicks, see http:// options (just a thought :-), (Microsoft don’t windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/ want me as their ‘conscience’ - I’ve asked!) practice-using-flicks.

For me the best thing (and probably, You can customize flicks to do frequentlyperformed tasks. To learn how, see http:// the only good thing) about ‘Touch’ is that windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/ you will never have to say “Where is that customize-flicks. flaming cursor?” again. Want to type in Press and hold does the same thing as right-clicking an item. To perform the a field? Reach out and touch it. Need to action, touch the screen where you want access the start menu? Touch it. Click to right-click, hold until a complete circle submit on a form? You get the idea. appears, and then lift your finger. The The use of touch on Windows has finally shortcut menu appears after you lift your matured to a point where it has gone from finger. unusable to nice value add. It’s certainly Windows Touch gestures: If your touchscreen can recognize at least two not a necessity, but definitely makes touch points, you can use Windows Touch the computing experience a little more gestures. To find out if your touchscreen pleasant. If you have a touch-enabled supports more than one touch point, check laptop but haven’t taken advantage, give the information that came with your laptop it a shot. You may be pleasantly surprised. or touchscreen.

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A Curious Case of travelling Laundry Part 2 My wife’s face explained that this was my problem to sort out fast! How could I travel the three hours back to the laundry and collect our laundry unless it’d been given to stripy tee shirt owner; then drive three hours back to where I was standing now; ready to catch our ferry (the last of the day) in two hours time?

This round peg didn’t fit its square hole so I ordered more beer; by now the bar owner had noticed there was a situation unfolding. I explained my cock up and she smiled knowingly at the stupidity of men. Pitying my wife she lent me her phone and I called our previous hotel to tell them the story of the missing laundry. They agreed to go the laundrette and call me back. Luckily there was a bright orange dress (not mine) plus a cream tee-shirt with a VW microbus stencilled on it (mine) so the hotel staff could easily see if it was our bag.

Then the mobile I was using ran out of juice and there was no charger. The girl at the next table had been watching our escapades and kindly gave us her mobile to use. I called the hotel with our new contact number. So, more beer drinking and worried pacing until they called back with good news and bad news. I like good news so took that first, the launderette had liked my VW tee shirt so much; it was top of the pile and obviously ours. Then bad news as no taxi was available to get the bag back to us in time for the ferry. Then good news as a taxi could reach the ferry by the next afternoon; then more bad news as it was going to cost Fifty US Dollars plus another five for the laundry.

Money being no object where marital happiness is concerned; I stuffed fiftyfive Dollars in an envelope for the taxi, wrote out an address label with our new hotel on for our laundry, wrote another address label for the stripy tee shirt bag to be returned safely to its owner; then met the ferry manager and explained our predicament. The very nice man laughed and said he would deliver our

Underwater gas explosions could explain Bermuda Triangle disappearances Scientists may have come up with an explanation for one of the world’s greatest mysteries - the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, which lies in a section of the North Atlantic Ocean, has been blamed for the disappearance of at least 20 planes and 50 ships in the past 100 years.

A discovery of giant underwater craters at the bottom of the Barents Sea could offer a viable theory for the disappearance of ships lost at sea.

Large underwater exploding gas deposits could offer an explanation for mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Scientists have found craters almost a kilometre wide and more than 45 metres deep, believed to have been caused by build-ups of methane off the coast of natural gas-rich Norway, the Daily Mail reported.

The methane would have leaked from deposits of natural gas further below the surface and created cavities which finally burst.

Details of the discovery will be released next month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union, with a key question being whether such bubbles could threaten ships.

One theory is they may explain the disappearance of ships in areas like the Bermuda Triangle.

A researcher from the Arctic University of Norway told the Sunday Times multiple craters existed on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea, which probably caused enormous “blowouts” of gas.

“The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic.”

This is not the first time this idea has been floated to explain the disappearance of ships in the notorious Bermuda Triangle area, which stretches from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Florida coast, to Puerto Rico.

In 2015, Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, the deputy head of the Trofimuk Institute, said: “There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.

“They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas.

“That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas,” Yeltsov said. stuff.co.nz

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laundry pack to the island free of charge next afternoon.

The bar owner said she was off tomorrow afternoon but her trusty number two (a man) would pay the taxi driver, take our laundry from him and give him the stripy tee shirt bag in return. Then he’d walk the 20 paces to the ferry and give them the package for us. The plan had come together and I bought beers all around before we boarded the ferry to our desert island hotel.

Next day at early O’clock we woke in our island paradise and the hotel gave us the good news that our laundry had arrived. There waiting for me at reception was the blooming stripy tee shirt bag. So my laundry story was repeated. On the mainland the trusty number two had ignored all instructions, choosing instead to chuck our laundry on the first boat out of town. We now had some poor chap’s clothes even further from him and ours was nowhere to be seen. Phone calls confirmed that the trusty number 2 was anything but; our laundry was sitting under the bar counter on the mainland. Luckily our hotel had staff with brains, with two of them on a day off on the mainland. They kindly went to the bar, presumably slapped No.2 with a wet fish and put our laundry on a ferry to the island. Our hotel arranged for the stripy tee shirt to be returned to the mainland, with the bar owner promising to personally supervise its return.

That afternoon marital bliss was resumed as our clean clothes arrived.

Unsurprisingly a week later when we returned to the mainland to thank the bar for cocking up and then rescuing the situation; the stripy tee-shirts were still under the bar. So we made new arrangements for their return but who knows if they made it? If any reader ever hears a tale of a poor chap who lost his stripy tee shirt in Cambodia; please put him touch.

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8 great Spanish Easter break ideas

March 2016

Relaxing and fun escapes for making the most out of the first holiday of the year

From Andy Warhol in Bilbao to walks around movie locations and subterranean secrets – whether you have four, seven or even more days to recharge your batteries over Easter, here are eight exciting Spanish travel ideas for the upcoming break.

Music in Cuenca First held in 1961, this year’s 55th edition of the Religious Music Week in Cuenca overlaps with the Easter holidays, running from March 19 to 27 in venues such as the city cathedral, the Menédez Pelayo University, the auditorium, and the churches of San Miguel, San Pedro de la Merced and Santa Cruz. Highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor conducted by William Christie and performed by German baritone André Morsh and the British soprano Katherine Watson. Some concerts are free, while others cost between €9 and €40 (a season pass for all the concerts is €250). www.smrcuenca.es Movie marshes Spanish director Alberto Rodríguez’s excellent recent thriller La isla mínima (Marshland), set among the rice fields of the Guadalquivir river in Andalusia, has inspired a trip to the Doñana National Park organized by trekking agency Gente Viajera from March 23 to 27. The price is €428 per person, which includes transportation from Madrid, full-board accommodation in the rural Lantana Garden hotel in Pilas (Seville) and a selection of routes on foot, horseback or by jeep around Doñana and the landscapes seen in the movie. www.genteviajera.com The camellia trail March is the best time to visit the gardens of Galicia, where more than 800 varieties of camellia bloom every year. The Ruta de la Camellia website proposes a route that takes in around 15 Galician country houses that open their gardens to visitors. www.cameliagalicia.com March is the best time to visit the gardens of Galicia, where more than 800 varieties of camellias bloom every year Warhol’s ‘Shadows’ US pop artist Andy Warhol’s Shadows series of paintings is now on show at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao until October 2. The exhibition is composed of 102 silkscreens in large format. From March 18 to September 4, you also have the chance to see French-American artist Louise Bourgeois’s disturbing Cells installations. The stylish hotel Miró, located in front of the Guggenheim, is offering a promotion, Art Bilbao,

that includes accommodation for two people, breakfast and tickets to the museum for €185 a night. www.mirohotelbilbao.com Underground Burgos The Ojo Guareña cave, in the Las Merindades district of northern Burgos province, has opened a section of its 120 kilometers of underground galleries to the public. Up on the surface, this protected space offers 10 easy circular routes for trekkers. One of the starting points is the San Bernabé Chapel carved out of the rock, which in March opens its doors to the public from Tuesday to Sunday. A combined visit to the Ojo Guareña cave and the chapel costs €4. www.turismocastillayleon.co Roman baths in Extremadura Among the most appealing itineraries on offer this spring is the Vía de la Plata stretch of Extremadura between Mérida (Badajoz) and Baños de Montemayor (Cáceres), an ancient Roman spa town at the foot of the Béjar mountain range (Salamanca). One accommodation option is the Hospedería del Valle de Ambroz, in Hervás (Cáceres). www.hospederiasdeextremadura.es The Ojo Guareña cave in Burgos has opened a section of its 120 kilometers of underground galleries Beautiful beaches According to Trip Advisor users, the Ses Illetes (Formentera), El Cotillo (Fuerteventura) and Bolonia (Cádiz) beaches are among the 10 best in Spain – so why not pay one of them a visit?

Hotel reservations website Booking. com is offering four-night stays from March 24 to 28 in apartments close to Bolonia for around €200 during Easter week. www.booking.com Water features The arrival of spring sees the snow begin to melt and waterfalls start to appear. One of the most spectacular spots is the Monasterio de Piedra in Zaragoza province: a succession of lakes, waterfalls, caves and forests only 105 kilometers from Zaragoza city and 229 from Madrid. Founded in 1194 and refurbished eight centuries later, the monastery is now a hotel and spa that has preserved the Gothic cloister, cells, chapter house and the crypt, which has been converted into a wine museum for the Calatayud region. www.monasteriopiedra.com http://elpais.com/

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Presently set out as two separate properties on individual floors with shared garden and large pool. Each floor have 8 bedrooms, large lounge with wood burner, kitchen, 4 bathrooms, individual patio etc. Large well managed garden has separate alfresco bbq and dining area with fantastic views, store room, raised planting areas and a large unusual and very attractive pool. Completely enclosed and walled property.

Ample parking space. Ideal for extended family, B&B or rental possibilities.

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Spacious 3 bed 4 bathroom detached traditional cortijo with much charm and character and many original features. Most attractive and desirable location as short drive to the nearest village and just off main access road.

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Fabulous 2 and 3 bed apartments, many with sea views situated just 600 metres from the beach. These apartments have 2 or 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a large lounge-dining room, a kitchen, an inner terrace and a large terrace with pergolas and some great sea views. Some of the apartments have large storerooms.

There are ground-floor, mid-floor and penthouse apartments available. The ground floor and first floor apartments have good views of the countryside and the mountain; the second and third floor apartments also have sea views. There are ground floor, first, second and third floor apartments available. The urbanisation has gardens, a nice community pool area, ample parking and is situated in a nice quiet, elevated position with easy access to local amenities

Mojácar An 85 m², 2 bed duplex situated a short walk from the beach. Upstairs it has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, downstairs it has a lounge-dining room, a fitted kitchen and a toilet. There is a large terrace with a barbecue, a small front garden and private parking. The urbanization has a communal

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Fabulous 3 and 4 bed, ultra-modern design, split-level townhouses with incredible sea views set on a golf course and situated just 300 metres from the beach. These ultra modern houses have 3 or 4 bedrooms set on different levels, 3 bathrooms, the master bedroom has an en-suite bathroom, a large lounge leading out to the front porch and garden area, an inner patio, the inner patio and staircase are great features of these properties, a kitchen, a laundry room and an upper terrace with sea views. The property is set on the Macenas golf complex and owners have access to the pool, the sauna and jaccuzi.

swimming pool and is located in a quiet area and within walking distance of the beach and shops.

Mojácar A large 2-bed detached villa situated just 500 metres from the beach. It has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a large lounge with an open fireplace, an independent dining-room ( used to be a third bedroom), a fitted kitchen, two covered porches, 2 large garages, a

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3 bed 2 bath detached villa in Arboleas. A simply stunning setting with amazing, unspoilt, open mountain views. Very private with a huge enclosed terrace for dining, fly free eating area, air-con, casita store, short walk to a tapas bar and a very generous build size!

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3 bed 2 bath detached villa in Los Gallardos just 12 minutes from the beach front. 8m x 5m pool, gas central heating, air-con, roof terrace, superb views towards the mountains and walking distance into the village. Immaculate property.

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A very well presented 4 bed 2 bath detached villa in Piedra Amarilla on a large plot of 2800m2 plot with a build of 127m2. The villa enjoys great views, a conservatory, fly free dining enclosure, central heating, air-con and a short walk to the local bar/ restaurant.

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2 bed 1 bath apartment on Vera Playa with great views. Walking distance to the beach and amenities, communal pool & jacuzzi, private parking, air-con, fully fitted kitchen and generous terrace. A bargain!

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Alqueria and the Arts who completed the application but being

The income from the export of Remitroot, in all its forms provides the bulk of the finance which keeps Alqueria ticking over. More or less everyone takes part in the production, sales and shipping.

Some are involved in more imaginative ways such as Pepe Lopéz better known as El Hígado de Cuero who is a self appointed taster for Remitroot Whisky and wine.

Now and again the Village coffers demand more cash and a creative approach to Village finances is called for. One method of bringing in cash was simply to do more work but this was rejected out of hand.

The solution arrived at by the Government of Alqueria was to approach the International Arts Council for a huge grant. Accorded to the application, Alqueria is a hotbed of culture with aspiring writers, painters and sculptors waiting for nothing more than hard cash to realise their full potential. In fact the only talent in the Village is the talent for total inertia. But the application had all the correct boxes ticked and the cheque duly arrived, it was cashed and spent in the same afternoon.

The International Arts Council, very unreasonably in the eyes of the Alquerian Government sent a delegation of five ‘experts’ to the Village to see how their money was being spent. This could have been a bit of a problem for those

experts in this sort of deception an exhibition was duly organised to showcase the very best of Alquerian art.

Held, as most events are in Alqueria in the bar of the La Casa Devante the exhibition was advertised as the greatest artistic event of the century. It was thought that the hype might muddy the waters as far as quality is concerned and hopefully cloud the judgement of the visiting critics.

The three ‘exhibits’ were a literary piece, a sculpture in granite and a water colour.

The literary piece was plagiarised from a work by Ivan Bogeroff, a little known Siberian Haiku Poet. The work was translated from the original Siberian Turkic into Alquerian Spanish by Nester Clacketo who has no knowledge of the former language. The sculpture resembled the corner stone of the Bar La Golondrina Verde, which coincidently went missing just before the exhibition opened. The water colour looked like the bottom of an aviary, which it was.

The Arts Council weren’t fooled and asked for their money back. What offended them the most was the claim that the literary work and the sculpture could be likened to the works of Hemingway and Henry Moore. But as the organisers pointed out, Henry Moore was lousy writer and Hemingway couldn’t sculpt to save his life.

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Michael

In the matter of communication Pete can be a little less than straightforward.

He has a vocabulary that is entirely his own invention; it has the most tenuous of connections, can cause utter confusion to the uninitiated, and can make me, even after all these years, scratch my head and wonder where the heck that one came from.

It goes like this: ‘Where’s the car?’

‘Hyde.’

‘Hide what?’

‘Hyde Park.’

Translation: The car is in the car park.

Or: ‘I’ve got Gilbert.’

‘Who’s Gilbert?’

‘Gilbert and Sullivan.’

With great mental agility I work out that Gilbert and Sullivan = the Mikado = Ko-Ko’s song I’ve got a little list – so he means I’ve got the shopping list.

Enquiries about supper may well elicit ‘2.15’ accompanied by a brushing of the hand over the shoulder. This one I know: It has nothing to do with eating the evening meal in the middle of the day – it is the 2.15 at Haydock Park Racecourse, (haddock) accompanied by brushing an imaginary chip off the shoulder, (chips) so haddock and chips for supper.

A sudden strangled scream is easy – Ice Cream!

Not even the animals are safe.

By Jos Biggs

josbiggs@hotmail.co.uk While putting Lucy the dog’s smart new blue collar on her he referred to her as ‘Loose the Spruce Goose.’

I have never seen a dog less like a goose, let alone a spruce one!

Neither is Sayyida the cat exempt.

She can at times act extremely kittenish and playful, causing me to call her Psycho-Cat, abbreviated for dignity’s sake to ‘Si-Cat.’ So it is not surprising that neither she nor I knew the answer to the question ‘Where’s Alfred?’

It’s easy when you work it out: Psycho-Cat = Psycho = Hitchcock = Alfred.

However, I was a bit worried recently when I enquired what he wanted for our next meal. ‘Michael.’

He answered without pause.

I nearly asked which Michael, and were we going to eat all of him, or maybe just the juicy bits, when the penny dropped. Of course - He meant Michael Fish – He wanted fish!

Phew!

LEGAL CORNER WITH MICHAEL DAVIES, ABOGADO/SOLICITOR

If you wish us to print an article about a particular topic, please e-mail info@daviessolicitors.com - www.daviessolicitors.com MENTIONING A TRUST ON A SPANISH WILL IS ASKING FOR TROUBLE. SOMETIMES WHAT IS LEGALLY POSSIBLE AND WHAT IS PRACTICAL IS NOT THE SAME THING. THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE. Question: I had a Spanish will made out for myself and my wife some time ago. We have recently hired a solicitor to handle a conveyance and he has taken a look at the wills and told us they are not good and that we should make new ones. We are now uncertain of what to do. We have attached the wills for you to take a look at them. Our instruction to our original solicitor in Spain was for him to do exactly what we did in the UK on our English wills. He said that since the Directive 650/2012 this can be done.

Answer.

As my granny would always say: a little knowledge can cause a lot of damage.

There is no doubt, the will is dreadful.

You must change it. I doubt the person who prepared your will has ever dealt with probate in Spain and in fact I doubt the person is even a solicitor. ( I say this because any solicitor I know would tell you that your will is asking for trouble). The will essentially translates the English will you handed over and sets up a trust to protect your children versus your second wife. Even though Directive 650/2012 allows English law to be applied (by choice of the testator) to how an estate is distributed in Spain, using institutions like trusts will cause endless problems and expenses for your heirs because Trusts are not understood in Spain the same way as in UK. So Certifications of English law (which are very expensive) will be required to help wind up the estate (by explaining the content of English law). To this you

will have to add a lot of problems with Spanish Inheritance tax (remember Directive 650/2012 has no effect on the taxation of the estate).

In Spain it is the beneficiary that pays inheritance tax and not the estate.

Descendants and spouse in Andalucía are exempt if they each receive less than 175,000€. In this case the trustee is a non-family member and as he has faculty to dispose of assets, the Spanish tax office could interpret that he is in control of the estate and is the person who owes the tax. As non-family he would receive a large tax bill. (This could all be battled out but it would be a mess.)

Conclusion: Keep things sensible and uncomplicated. In this case achieve what you want using methods that are common practice in Spain. (Even though with the Directive it is possible to have the will run under English law you must remember that probate will need to be obtained in Spain, so making a will that nobody understands in Spain is not a good idea It would be up to your heirs to prove what UK law says and I can tell you from plenty of experience that dealing with Trusts in Spain is nightmare scenario.) In this case leave the life possession of your property to you wife and the residual value to your children.

With the values you have sent me the estate will be exempt, probate will be simple and both your children and your wife will be fully protected as you asked for.

Michael Davies. Abogado.

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1. In 2000 who equalled Willie Renshaw’s record of seven Wimbledon Men’s Singles titles?......................................

2. Who, aged 16 was the youngest winner of the Ladies Singles title in the 20th century?...................................

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6. In 1954 the Czech born player Jaroslav Drobny won the Men’s Singles title representing which country?....

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1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.

1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.

1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.

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Warm the milk in a saucepan and whisk in the flour. Keep stirring and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer. The milk should thicken slightly. Add the cheese and stir over a low heat until it has melted.

Add the breadcrumbs, mustard and stout.

Continue stirring until the mixture comes together, it should leave the sides of the pan. Remove from the heat and tip into a bowl, leave to cool slightly. Once cooled add the egg yolks and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until the egg is thoroughly mixed in.

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Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas 6.

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INGREDIENTS

INGREDIENTS

Guinness Cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Ga s 6. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Sift the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder and sugar into a bowl. Blend the eggs, beetroot, stout and oil in a food processor until smooth.

Stir the beetroot into the flour mixture until just combined (do not overmix). Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases and cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the cupcakes have risen and the tops are springy to the touch. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. For the cream cheese icing, beat the but ter, cream cheese and vanilla together in a bowl until smooth; then slowly beat in the icing sugar. Spread the icing onto the muffins with a knife or spoon the icing into a piping bag fitted with a 1cm/½in star nozzle and pipe the icing onto the muffins.

EVERY WEDNESDAY IN MARCH

Buy one fillet meal at 10€ get the 2nd half price.

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(Serves 6) 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1 kg/2lb 4oz beef stewing steak, cut into 2.5cm/1in chunks 2 onions, 3 celery stalks 4 large carrots 1 litre/ 1¾pint beef stock 900g/2lb potatoes 25g/1oz unsalted butter sea salt & ground black pepper

(Makes 12) 75g/2¾oz cocoa powder 175g/6oz plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 225g/8oz caster sugar 3 free-range eggs 225g/8oz cooked beetroot (no added vinegar) 100ml/3½fl oz Irish stout 100ml/3½fl oz corn oil

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Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan /Gas 6. First cook the beef by placing a large saucepan over a high heat, add 1 tablespoon of the oil and brown the beef piec es. Do this in batches so the pan isn’t too full. Remove the bee f from the pan and set aside on a plate. Don’t clean the pan, as you’ll need this to fry the vegetables.

While the beef is frying, peel and chop the onions and carrots and slice the celery. Heat the rem aining oil in the same saucepan and fry the onion, celery and carr ot for 4–5 minutes or until the onions have softened. Scrape any cooked on bits from the bottom of the pan. That will add flavour to the stew. Season with salt and pepper. Mix the beef in with the vegetables, then take the pan off the heat. Tip the meat and veg etables into a large ovenproof dish and pour the stock over the top. Peel and slice the potatoes into ½cm/¼in thick slices and arra nge over the top of the beef.

Dot the butter over the top then cover tightly with foil. Bake for 1 hour then remove the foil and bak e for a further 15 minutes until the potatoes are crisp and goldenbrown. Ser ve in deep bowls.

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Beer used to be simple

The cool people drank exotic lagers from faraway places, and the bores drank cloudy real ales with bits of the brewers’ fingers in them.

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Truly, you are a golden God. 2. You flip out about glassware You know that craft beers come in glassware, not glasses.

Hell mend the barperson who puts

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3. You’d rather have no beer than ordinary beer Unless it’s Budweiser, in which case you’d rather die.

4. Your Facebook feed is nothing but Untappd updates To you, it’s a diary of your intrepid ale explorations.

To everybody else it’s a list of things you’ve put in your mouth.

5. You know that big is bad You’d much rather have a faintly

dangerous, foul-tasting IPA from a microbrewery than a perfectly decent one from a big brewery, because craft beer is about sticking it to The Man. Even if it means drinking toxic waste.

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Cross Easter Sunday 27th March ZURGENA & DISTRICT RBL San Pascual Mojacar 11am Holy Eucharist BR3620 The Zurgena & District Branch of the RBL meet on the first Llanos del Peral 11am Holy Eucharist Thursday of the month at Latino's Bar in Alfoquia. We are a small Branch of around 96 people.

We have various social events throughout the month and year. There is a Lunch Club that meet on the second Tuesday of the month, we choose a different restaurant to visit each month and this event has great support with Members and Guests enjoying experiencing different cuisine.

We have a Coffee Morning on the third Wednesday of the month at Latino's Bar with various activities. It is a good opportunity to meet up and have a chat and you would be made very welcome. If you would like to join the Branch or attend any of our events and would like further information please contact the Secretary, Chrissy at zurgena. rblsecretary@yahoo.co.uk. You will be made very welcome.

You do not have to have been a member of the Military to join.

TSB GOLF SOCIETY PLUS FOURS

CHARITY DAY: Saturday 23 APRIL 2016 The Turre Sports Bar Golf Society has arranged a charity golf day, followed by an evening auction and raffle, to be held on Saturday 23 April, starting at 10am.

The golf venue is at La Envia near Roquestas de Mar and there are limited spaces available at €45 per person with teams of four allowed. All competitors are asked to wear plus fours, 1930s old-fashioned style golfing clothes, and you can even choose your own team (€180).

And then, after your efforts out on the course, you will return to the Sports Bar, in Turre, for an auction and raffle to help raise money for the Vera Orphanage which needs a total of €15,000 to refurbish the toilets, baths and washrooms.

Effectively, a brand new shower block is required.

Please contact Dez on 677 161 705 or Alice on 620 876 488 or simply call into Alice’s Sports Bar in Turre to reserve your place… and of course, talk golf!

It will be a great day all round… so please add your name to the list of entrants as soon as possible as numbers are restricted.Tony Matthews

Age Support Almanzora

We have an office at Mora Oil on the Poligono Industrial Arboleas Norte.

You are welcome to call in for a chat and a coffee to find out more about our work or to make a referral for yourself or a neighbour / friend. We are open every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10.00 a.m. To 1.30 p.m.

Age Support Almanzora’s aim is to improve the quality of life for older people by providing emotional and practical support.

In recent months we have received an increasing number of requests for help Now we urgently need more volunteers to help us to help others. If you dislike the thought of vulnerable people being alone and, with the guidance of our Welfare Team Leader, you would enjoy visiting people in their own homes, please call in or telephone for more information to ask for a Volunteer Application Form.

If you think that you or someone you know could benefit from our support please don’t hesitate to call us on the number below. We are also able to provide advice about UK health benefits and have skilled volunteers who can help you complete an application form.

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to provide carer support as we are not qualified to do so. To contact us please ring 634 333 544 or email welfareteam.asa@gmail.com

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The Branch meets on the third Tuesday in the month at 14.30 hrs at the El Paraiso Restaurant, located in Jardin del Mar 3, which is located very near Carrefour. If you would like information please contact the Chairman on 692508916 or Welfare on 615048892 or visit the Website www.rafacb.com

PAWS FUND-RAISING CHARITY QUIZ

Tony Matthews (Soltimes/Spectrum Radio) will be the question-master for this bumper quiz in aid of PAWS to be held at MIRAFLORES BAR/RESTAURANT at Camping Los Gallardos on TUESDAY 22nd March.

It is €2 per person to take part with a maximum of SIX members per team. The questions will include music, sport, geography and general trivia and there will also be a picture round.

Meals (including special pies) will be available before the quiz which starts at 8pm.

Please attend - it’s for a good cause.

Telephone: 650 418 954 (or call into Miraflores personally) to reserve your table.

New Paws.Patas shop now open in Huercal-Overa

Come and visit us at En La Calle Carrill 24, a few hundred metres behind the theatre. All donations welcome. If you can spare a few hours a week why not become a volunteer? More information can be found on our website at www.paws-patas.org

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Maranda the Mermaid by K.J.Rollinson

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“Panic and horror replaced the loving look in my eyes. To love a human was not possible. He should be told he had fallen in love with a mermaid.”

This delightful tale is aimed at the parents and grandparents of children between the ages of 5-10. Fantasy of the most innocent kind for those impressionable years. It is suitable for independent readers or ideal as a bedtime story.

Enchanting reading.

Maranda (star of the sea) Melanie Seagrove is 11 years of age. Known as Mysterious Maranda by her two close friends, Jill, also aged 11 and her brother, Ethan, aged 12. This is because of her Houdini act and leading a dual life of part-human, part-mermaid. If she wants to locate her mother, Marella, she uses a large conch shell which acts as a loud speaker, a bit like the “mob” in Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Our heroine has to change her clothes and stuff all of her belongings into a bag which was then hidden between a cleft of rock in order to guard her secret from preying eyes. She is related to the high-and-mighty himself, King Neptune. Her uncle Adrian is Neptune’s brother. Marella (shining sea) is her mother and Robert, her father. We have a wonderful group of friends, Larry the Lobster, Gerry the Grouper, Pansy the Plaice and Olly the Octopus, characters that children will adore.

The story begins with a potentially worrying situation which becomes easily resolved with the help of Maranda’s army of friends. Simply, Marella isn’t around when Maranda finishes school at lunch-time. She had gone to cut some kelp and hadn’t returned. Uncle Adrian was worried that she had had a terrible accident. She had gone into Olly’s cave when a boulder tumbled down, blocking the entrance.

One of the small rocks had hit her and she was temporarily unconscious.

“Maranda found Olly the Octopus, his chest heaving, tugging at a huge boulder blocking the cave entrance. Four of his legs were wrapped around the boulder, four straddled along the edge of the cave as he heaved and pulled.”

How grateful are we for friends in a crisis! Gerry, the notorious burper, and his friends bulldozed the rocks which splintered, clearing the entrance. Marella was “stretched on the cave floor: the scales on her lower body pale, and blood oozing from a small cut on her forehead.” Olly made a cradle with his arms to carry her to safety. Tension over for the moment.

Maranda always disappeared down to the beach on her own, making sure she wasn’t followed. She had been untruthful to Ethan telling him she went there for solitude so that she could do her homework in peace. She had been partly truthful in telling him where she lived-describing the location of Robert’s housethe end house at the end of the village, near a small cove, although she had a bed in the snug cabin in the sunken galleon made of “soft blankets, woven kelp {which} covered her bed and a soft, yellow sponge {for} her pillow.” Maranda didn’t want to lie to her friends and she suffered constant pangs of guilt but she knew she must keep her identity a secret. “They wouldn’t understand about me being a

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mermaid.” The children will love this.

When her legs itched and ached this was a sign for her to return to the sea. She was overwhelmed by relief and happiness once she stepped into the water!

Rollinson uses sentimentality to inform us of Maranda’s heritage, hence the bedtime stories when Marella reminds her daughter of her conception and parentage. It begins dramatically with an episode which could have proved potentially life-threatening. A pleasant swim turned into a near brush with death for Robert, usually considered a strong swimmer. A rip-tide tossed and buffeted around, proving too much for the swimmer. “Soon his strength deserted him and he sank towards the bottom of the sea.”

Fortunately, Marella was swimming close by and she dragged him over stones and rocks and once the seawater had cleared from his lungs, he regained consciousness. She stayed with him all night, keeping him warm and hid her tail, being too embarrassed to reveal her true identity. Robert Seagrove did recover and called her his Saviour. It’s not surprising that he felt love towards his Guardian Angel which was reciprocated. A marriage soon followed then Maranda’s birth.

Another bedtime story by Robert this time, told of a heroic rescue involving both of her parents and a cabin boy when a ship hit a terrible storm and crashed into the rocks. Another potentially dangerous situation with Marella heralded as the heroine once again.

Maranda has a wonderful 12th birthday celebration, one with her sea friends and one with her human friends. How lucky is that? Donald, King Neptune’s favourite dolphin was invited to perform his acrobatic tricks and allowed the birthday girl to ride the waves. Ethan and Jill visited Robert’s house for her other party. Whilst they waited on the beach they sauntered into a cave when Ethan found an old coin bearing the faint outline of a shield. He found out from Robert that it was a Spanish piece of eight. Ethan’s father was a diver and he knew his father would be interested in searching for more treasure which would signal danger to the fishes living in the sunken Spanish galleon including Maranda and her mother. How can Maranda resolve the situation without threatening the lives of her friends? How can she hold on to her friendship with Ethan and Jill? How does she deal with the guilt of telling lies to her friends? All will be revealed in time……

REVIEW it by Carol Naylor.

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Sophia’s Wellness Centre, is proud of what it offers and all under one roof. Most people now know you will find a fully equipped Gym, studios, a vast amount of therapies, hairdressers, when you walk in, but it seems everyone isn’t aware of their large selection of classes.

Kickboxing at Sophia’s Wellness Gym Every Thursday 5pm just 5€ per week

There are classes for every walk of life, but Sophia’s are excited to inform you of their NEW class.

Crossfit. This is for those people who enjoy a challenge and an Intense workout! This 50 minute class will give you a complete workout, with dynamic stations and in an upbeat motivated environment.

They also offer other exciting classes such as Bootcamp, this class is outside on the grass and it is how you imagine, military style with Commander Ovie shouting at you, from flipping tractor tyres, to push ups and battle rope workout

(a class of sweat and laughter) Another of Ovie popular classes is Body pump, very popular here in Spain, this will work all major muscles using moderate weights, so if you’re looking to get toned up, then this is the class for you. As they’ve said, there is a vast array of classes available at Sophia s for everyone, so if you would like to know more on all the classes, then please check out their website www.sophias.es or follow them on Facebook Sophia Rurador

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Where has the past year gone to? On Monday 7th March Mojacar held their 2nd Anniversary Triples competition.

Competitors from Mojacar, Cabrera and Almeria Bowling Clubs took part in a well organised competition and enjoyed a good lunch with paella, calamare and tortilla and an Anniversary gateaux provided by the Servi Group Marina Playa hotel and also various sandwiches and quiches provided by Club members.

During the competition the Deputy Mayor and the Sports Councillor attended and the Anniversary cake was cut.

After a thrilling Final the winners of the competition were: Linda and Rod Band, and Malcolm Smallwood, from Cabrera who just beat Janet Jackson(Cabrera) and Derek Leary, and Roy Savage(Mojacar). 3rd place going to Vivienne and Ken Sykes and Colin Wright (Almeria) who were last years winners. The cup and prizes were presented by Senor Ricardo Escudero -Director Zona Mojacar Servi Group Hotels, who also presented each of the winners with a day at the Marina Playa Spa, a prize which the ladies were very pleased about!

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SPORTS SHORTS from Tony Matthews…

• The FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley on the 23/24 April will feature Crystal Palace, who eliminated Reading 2-0, Everton who beat Chelsea, also by 2-0, Watford who ousted holders Arsenal 2-1 and either Manchester United or West Ham who drew 1-1 at Old Trafford.

• Chelsea were also dumped out of the Champions League by Paris St Germain last week.

• Ross County won their first-ever trophy, beating Hibs 2-1 in the Scottish League Cup final.

• Leicester still lead the Premiership from Tottenham.

• Burnley (74 points), Middlesbrough (67), Hull (65), Brighton (65), Derby (61) and Sheffield Wednesday (59) are the top six in the Championship.

• Burton Albion (FL1), Northampton (FL2), Celtic (SPL), Barcelona (La Liga), Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) and Juventus (Serie ‘A’) are all closing in on their respective League titles, while P.S.G. crushed Troyes 9-0 to clinch the top prize in France.

• In the Champions League tonight, Arsenal, 2-0 down, play Barcelona, unbeaten in 37 games, while Manchester City, 3-1 up on Dynamo Kiev, should have qualified for the quarter-finals last night.

• Tomorrow, Liverpool (2-0 up) visit Manchester United and Tottenham (3-0 down) play Borussia Dortmund in the second legs of their last 16 Europa League ties.

• This weekend’s PL fixtures include three derbies: Chelsea-West Ham, the Manchester showdown and Newcastle-Sunderland. Leicester visit Crystal Palace-Leicester, Everton play Arsenal and Spurs meet Bournemouth.

• The top Championship game is Middlesbrough against Hull.

• Last Saturday, England clinched Rugby’s Triple Crown with a 25-21 points victory over Wales and 24 hours later ‘won’ the Six Nations title as Scotland beat France. England will complete the Grand Slam with victory in Paris on Saturday.

• Leaders Saracens beat London Irish 26-16 in the first Premiership rugby game to be played outside

Europe – in front of 25,000 fans in New Jersey, USA. • England meet the West Indies in their first T20 World Cup game today and take on South Africa on Saturday. The hosts India play Pakistan on Sunday.

• The Cheltenham Festival started yesterday and I fancy Cole Harden and Thistlecrack for tomorrow’s World Hurdle and Silviniaco Conti in Friday’s Gold Cup. And ex-Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton rides Pacha Du Polder in the Foxhunter Chase, also Friday.

• Wigan Warriors thrashed reigning champions Leeds Rhinos 28-6 in Rugby’s Super League.

• Chris and Gabby Adcock were beaten in the semi-finals of the All-England Badminton championships.

• Geraint Thomas became only the third Brit to win the Paris-Nice cycle race.

• Newcastle have appointed Spaniard Rafael Benitez as their new manager after sacking Steve McClaren.

• And on Friday night, on BBC TV, it’s celebrity Sports Relief… watch and enjoy.

PAWS CHARITY QUIZ… It’s SIX days before this event at Miraflores, Los Gallardos Camping, on Tuesday 22 March. Two euros per person; make an effort to attend; it’s for a good cause.

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