Archive for: May 20, 2012

The sale of counterfeit goods in Spanish seaside towns and markets is well known and the police are attempting to crack down on it.Recently the focus of attention was Benidorm where a load of counterfeit sportswear was being sold.

Now the …

Thompson Holiday´s has just published a detailed report on the Costa Blanca and Benidorm comes in for analysis.The report analyses the future of mass tourism and is entitled “Sustainable Holiday Futures”

Thompson Holiday´s comes to the conclusion that it is not …

A Moroccan man has been jailed in an Alicante court for rape,forgery and illegal immigration.He has been sentenced to 13 years and 9 months.

The illegal immigration gained him 6 years in prison.For forgery he was given 1 year and nine …

Nine million euros will be spent on about 30 projects in La Nucia on the Costa Blanca in 2011.The new ecopark has an investment of almost three quarters of a million euros.It is going to be located on a plot …

The Department of Education and Health,The Calpe Fishermen´s Association and the local AMPA have decided that as of January 2011 the schoolchildren of Calpe will have locally caught fish on their menu.

The caterers who supply food to the schools in …

The train which left Santander in northern Spain, for Alicante last Sunday morning at 7.05 am had no idea that it would be trapped in a mountain tunnel with temperatures reaching minus 13 degrees Celcius.There were 148 passengers aboard the …

In 2006 the Spanish legislation curtailing smoking in public places caused  many establishments to adapt their premises at some cost. as they had to differentiate between smoking and non-smoking areas.Now legislation is being brought in which curtails the smoking of …