New season, First case of 'English balconing'

Last Sunday a British youth (19 year old) jumped from a fourth balcony trying to reach the swimming pool. He was very drunk so he had to be taken to his apartment by the Guardia Civil after causing a disturbance in the street.

He has become the first victim of ‘balconing’ of the season on the Baleares.

Last year there were some 20 youngsters (most of them British and some German tourists), "how many youth will be in 2011?"

Please, don't do it!! Just chill out, enjoy your holidays!!! you are not an heroe you are a kamikaze

Yeeess!!!! Real Madrid won their 18th Spanish cup

A single goal by Cristiano Ronaldo (103rd min) was enough to give Real Madrid victory in a Final that went into extra-time. They have proven to everyone they can beat any team they want.

Real Madrid dominated the first half and then relied on goalkeeper Iker Casillas' second-half stops as Barcelona took control after the restart in an intense atmosphere at the Mestalla Stadium (Valencia FC).

Next up it’s the Semi-final Champions League Wed 27 April (Santiago Bernabeu), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 (Camp Nou)

Ohhh Nooo, British students are back in Salou - Spain

THOUSANDS of British students have caused chaos after descending on a Spanish seaside town.
British have descended on a Spanish seaside resort to take part in a drunken annual festival that has outraged the locals.

The drunken revellers, from universities across the UK, were in Spain for Saloufest – billed as the ‘biggest student festival in the world’.

The youngsters stirred controversy in Salou, on the Costa Dorada, after partying semi-naked in the streets until the small hours.

The festival, which has been running since 2002, attracts 8,000 students over two, four day legs, staying at seven hotels in Salou reserved for the event.

Hundreds of both sexes went on the rampage in fancy dress or in their underwear, exposing themselves in restaurants and on the streets of the town 70 miles south of Barcelona

This follows last year’s festival in which a British undergraduate told police she had been raped on a beach.
A British student was subsequently arrested and released on bail before being allowed to return home, although the case is ongoing.

Property prices in Spain still falling

Britons could take advantage of the country's struggling economy by securing a good deal on a residential investment or a commercial property. According to the Bank of Spain, house prices have fallen by 17% since 2007, while it has also been reported that there are more than one million homes currently unsold on the market.

Property values in some parts of Spain are falling, Bank of Spain has just brought it up in its latest report on the economy. If the past is anything to go by, average Spanish property prices will continue falling for another 2 years

The latest property prices figures for real estate in Spain show that prices fell by between 3.5 and 4.5% year on year in February.

During the first part of 2011 house sales will continue to be slow and the fall in prices will continue until most of the surplus housing stock has been absorbed. According to the Association of Property Valuers the fall in prices will affect both first homes and second homes.


So.. if you are an usual tourist What are you waiting for being an owner of property in Spain??

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife arrive in Spain promoting British business and renewable energy

Oh, what a coincidence!!

I was talking about the royal family Prince William and Kate Middleton in the previous post and today I have read that Prince Charles and Camilla have arrived in Spain. Althought, in theory they are on the second leg of a tour promoting British business and renewable energy, I know they are behind the nice weather, some good lunch and spend time at a private estate near Granada before travelling to Rabat.

Out of curisity,
In August 1987, Charles and his then wife Princess Diana spent a holiday in a palace on the island of Majorca, where tensions between the couple were evident.
The Prince of Wales had already made several visits to Spain but this is his first together with the Duchess of Cornwall.