Living in Spain

Two airport security officers lost their lives in a tragic aviation accident at the busiest cargo airfield in the world early on Monday morning, October 20. A cargo plane pushed the patrol vehicle they were driving into the sea.  Emirates’ Boeing 747 cargo plane, leased by Turkish carrier Air ACT and operated by Emirates, crashed through a perimeter fencing after …

Andalusia’s iconic pueblos blancos, those hilltop delights of whitewashed stone and blooming geraniums, actually might offer to pay you to live there as part a drive to repopulate. The Costas are becoming ever more pricy, but further inland, there are opportunities to be had for families, entrepreneurs and digital nomads. Facing a 20 per cent decline in population since 2000, …

A powerful DANA, named Alice (Depression Aimed at High Levels), is now hitting the Alicante Province. It will bring torrential rainfall, flooding risk, and dangerous road conditions. The State Meteorological Agency has issued a Red Alert for the Southern Alicante Coast, signaling extreme danger. In the red‑alert zone, rainfall could exceed 180 litres per square metre in 12 hours. The remaining …

This year, the interest in moving to Spain grew dramatically. With it came a question about identity. You may be an expat or an immigrant. The words we use can influence how we perceive ourselves and others. Community Voices – What people say Ken, who has made Spain his home, pushed back against the word ‘expat’. To him, it’s not …

The move changed everything. Alexios Christopoulos is known to his closest friends as Alexie. For him, the journey of life has been defined by music and movement. In the 1980s he was born in Athens and fondly recalls his childhood growing up in the suburb Ano Elysia. He said, “I spent my early childhood in Athens in Greece during the …

Amid the worst wildfires in Spain’s history and an unrelenting heatwave in which temperatures in the country’s interior are predicted to reach 45ºC, Pedro Sánchez, prime minister, has decided to cut short his summer holiday, activate the army and request help from neighbouring nations. Wildfires in multiple regions have burned almost 120,000 acres. Four people, including a firefighter, died, after …

He returned from Ibiza, where he had a girlfriend crisis and a haircut so bad it could revive feudalism. His title was “Final Boss” of the island. This is the short version. The long, spectacular one? In Ibiza, there are many ways to establish yourself. Most of the time, it involves poor decisions, expensive cocktail and regrettable tattoos. But mister …

Calo des Moro beach. Credit: TikTok@24sherry24, TikTok@jack_varabei10 & Olaf Tausch/Creative Commons, collage by EWN The once-hidden fine-sand beaches in Spain have quickly gone from Insta-dreams to environmental disasters. Once the “crème de la crème” of Mallorca’s hidden beaches, Calo des MoroSantanyi is now awash in garbage. It’s all due to the selfie-driven tourist wave. A 40-metre strip of beach attracts …

The arrival of the migrants was greeted by beachgoers on a sunny Sunday. Credit: videos by Ideal&101TV Granada, collage by EWN These images were so bizarre that they looked like something straight out of a Netflix drama. The sound of holiday conversation and the familiar clinking of beer bottles is drowned out by a speedboat filled with young men, gliding …

The summer season is at its height, and Spain’s Directorate General for Traffic has activated the “August 1st Special Operation” to handle an estimated 6.88 million road journeys from Thursday, 31 July at 3pm until midnight on Sunday, 3 August. This annual operation begins August, which is the busiest travel month of the year. An estimated 52,87 million journeys long …