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  Since my first day in Malaga, I have been hearing about how beautiful Mijas village was. Finally, I visited it this week. There are donkey taxis, and the following piece of new shows a local organization is regularly checking their welfare, nice. But when we see them, they did not look quite healthy, carrying people around under that temperature, working all day long, they looked very tired. I hope this news is true and they are in good condition.  This year new traffic rules have been approved in Spain. With the new regulations now, no personal mobility vehicles (like patinetes, or scooters) may use the pavement or the other pedestrian spaces. I was also wondering about the following, a helmet must be worn on inter-urban roads but in the towns, this is only obligatory for the under-16s. Some pieces about the economy and electric prices. Could the Titanic tragedy have been avoided? Some very interesting information about the famous Titanic tragedy. Apparently, Cruz Roja has worked on

I have been stockpiling recent newspapers, mostly Sur English and some other too, but never had a chance to write a few words about them. In this post, I wanted to publish some of the pieces I copied, just not to lose them in my notes.  Last week, we woke up in a day with an orange color - I have never seen something like that before, it was like doomsday, end of the world. Turned out that it was the dust coming from the Sahara region and it coincided with rainy weather, which resulted literally mud rain. I went for a walk and I came back as a mud man in 15 minutes. (you can see the other headline about ongoing strikes) The longest and most expensive cruize "The Ultimate World Cruise", spends 274 days on the sea, visits 65 countries, five continents, 157 destinations and the price varies from 52,681 to 102,000. As a fan of olive and olive oil, this is interesting to hear: thousand-year-old olive tree in Malaga.  I can not imagine how hard is handling paperwork, bank operation

1. Migration of tribes to Malaga We have been looking for an apartment for almost three months, and I wasn't expecting this before moving to Malaga. It is not even about the price range you decided, simply said there weren't enough apartments to rent. They are either in very bad shape or expensive.  Finally, we have settled down somewhere but still not sure if we like it so much. Finding an apartment in Malaga was both hard and long (experiences to be told in another post). I was hearing from some people that many remote workers had moved from Madrid, Granada, etc. to Malaga after the pandemic, now with the following piece of news, it all makes sense. It is like "migration of tribes" as we say for this kind of mass moves. ~ 17 thousand people in almost a year. This level of demand obviously will explode the prices of rents.  Malaga is the Spanish province with the largest population growth during the pandemic In the past 18 months, some 17,247 people moved to Malaga w

I do my best to find a local newspaper and get to know more about the city I live in or currently passing by. Local newspapers somehow seem a bit more sincere than national ones. Living in Andalucia nowadays, I will try to share the things I notice in the local newspapers from the nearby regions. (Let me call this as this new year's resolution) Headline: Spain reduces Covid isolation period from ten to seven days - In January 2020, the first Covid-19 jabs have been given to the residents in care homes and frontline health workers. Now, around 80% of the total population in Andalucia has been fully vaccinated. - The first electric-powered and autonomous bus was on a one-month trial period in Malaga. The city's mayor Franciso de la Torre pointed out that Malaga would be the first city in Europe where an autonomous bus would operate. - In Andalusia, 12,000 small and medium-sized businesses, and self-employed workers have been eradicated. The region had only received 41% of the num

  A short video I shot during the first day of snow in Salamanca, in 2021. La Borrasca Filomena. I have more shots from the same day but I could not gather and edit them yet, I will publish it once I am done with uniting them all. Enjoy a 20 seconds edition: The last time I made a video of snow in Salamanca was in 2018, it snowed a few hours and after that, all the colour white disappeared in no time. Guess who are the people on the cover photo of the video?

After months of confinement due to the pandemic, I had the first travel with my travelling companion Eric to walk the other part of Camino de Hierro (iron road) of La Fregeneda. You can read the previous part of the route in this post .  Let me give very short information about the route, as I mentioned the route is called "Iron Road", it is also known as Ruta de los túneles (Route of tunnels). It is located on the border of Spain - Portugal, in the Las Arribes natural park [1]. It was built in 1887, a great work of civil engineering consisting of 20 tunnels and 13 bridges. You can notice in the video below, it has a tunnel with a 1593 meters of length. It was used to travel between Oporto and Salamanca. Sadly, in 1984 it was closed on the grounds of lack of profitability. Since 2000, it has been declared as "Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC)" meaning something like Property of Cultural Interest [2] Previously, we had walked from Spanish village - La Fregeneda, to Port

We were outside of coverage area during hiking on Sierra de Gredos. After a few seconds from we had started to get down from the peak, we had network connection and at that moment my friend Eric, nervously, told me that a lockdown has started due to the pandemic. It was time to get back home as soon as possible. The visit to Sierra de Gredos was the last day we were able to freely walk around. Since then we are in lockdown. In this post, I was planning to share both how hiking in Sierra de Gredos was like and my experiences of being in lockdown during this pandemic. But it has been 48 days already in lockdown and there are so many things to talk/write about, so I will leave it for another post.  Let´s start with Sierra de Gredos. I have been there twice, I had not been on the lake the first time. This time, we have walked until the lake, which was half icy. It took an hour and a half to get there from Salamanca, the views along roads are nice. You can get to the start point by