Tourist delegation from the US at Puente Romano Marbella Credit: Turismo Costa del Sol Expect a lot more of our American cousins coming to the Costa del Sol this summer as ‘New Miami’, as the coast has been dubbed, braces for a new wave of luxury tourism. The organisation ‘Turismo Costa del Sol’ (basically, the tourist board) is entertaining a …

An Irish national who beat a Costa Blanca resident to death with a knuckleduster in a fit or jealous rage accepted a six-year prison sentence via a plea agreement. Wayne Walsh, 37 from Kilkenny, Ireland, will serve his sentence for the murder of Carl Carr in September 2018. The crime took place at an apartment on Torrevieja’s La Siesta residential …

Marbella’s new residents have a primary hub that isn’t a Michelin-starred beach club. The Pool, not the infinity-style pool but a huge glass and steel space for co-working on the Golden Mile. Christian Rasmusson, the co-founder of the Swedish company, says that its members are from over 30 countries. We bought our villa within four months and knew we would …