I just popped out to a favourite local bar, where my favourite barman, super-friendly, 50-ish, thick white hair and humour as dry as a brick, brings in his home-made tortilla every day. ‘Un pincho de tortilla’, I said, ‘but don’t heat it up, I’ll have...

I was poking around on Twitter (me here) recently, and found a link to Stuck in Customs, which has some amazing HDR photos on… which rekindled my interest in photography. Wonderful how the web can do that. Above is a first new HDR experiment (bigger...

There are aspects of Spanish ‘Culture’ that you would never dream of until you have children in Spain. One thing I was protected from for all those years before I became a parent in Spain, was the world of the ‘Cantajuegos’. The Cantajuegos are kids...

1. I’m glad I don’t want an iPad. I can’t see it doing anything for my life that my Macbook doesn’t do already! And I still just love paper books, as opposed to the e-versions… One thing that strikes me though: imaginary conversation 20 years...

If you are new to Notesfromspain.com, welcome! And please do take a good look around… The forum is great and super-active too. For those that wonder where I’ve gone, I’m still collecting my thoughts after 8 months of little to no sleep (parenting...