They Stole My Spanish Home - Squatters Rights in Spain
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
Release Date: 08/04/2025
Real Spanish Men Don't Mop!
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
Is Spain’s reputation for “machista” - sexist or chauvinist men deeply rooted in its historical, cultural, and political past? Is modern Spain ever going to be able to tame the Matadors and their macho ways? This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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They Stole My Spanish Home - Squatters Rights in Spain
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
The famous Okupas of Spain - squatters with more rights than the owner of the property they have illegally entered. But are the days of the Okupas numbered? This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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Carry On Abroad - The Return of the Package Holiday?
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
How a Spanish Mayor and a Bikini kick-started the Package Holiday, we carry on abroad with a look back at the great British Holiday to Spain. This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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Spanish Practices Trailer
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
This is our real life in real Spain and an invitation for you to join us on the journey. Like, it's free, follow, it's free and subscribe, it's free and really helps us make more of these episodes.
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The Butt of the Joke Ep 102
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
Why do around 25% of adults smoke in Spain? Why is it still socially acceptable to smoke in front of children here in Spain? This episode, Spain a smokers paradise? This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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How do I get to live and work in Spain? Ep 101
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
How do I get to live and work in Spain? Is it better to rent first and buy later? The answers and our experience of buying a property in Spain. This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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Boom! Boom! Boom! - Did somebody say we´re having a Fiesta?
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
In the one hundreth episode of Spanish Practices we celebrate the rhythm of Spanish life. It’s brash, colourful, very very loud.. yes we are having a Fiesta. This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot, Ep 99, - Survive the Spanish Summer.
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
How on earth do you cope with the hot Spanish Summer Sun? This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one. Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.
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Day 98 - "The End?"
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
Transcript: Day 98 The End? Sunday and the Alarma is over, Lockdown is unlocked, 99 days, it started on Saturday March 14th, but actually I consider that weekend to be the two phoney days of Lockdown. Saturday 14th March was a pretty normal day, the supermarket rammed with people taking everything off the shelves, including the toilet paper, something that the Spanish do not a use a lot of, most prefer to wash in the bidet than smear on the pan, as it were. Sunday was equally as busy as people rushed around to be in the right place before the strict measures and fines started on...
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Day 97 - "Of mousy women and men"
Spanish Practices - Real Life, Real Spain
Full transcript: Day 97 Of mousy women and men Saturday the weather is calm, the sun is shining, I have been doing some extreme weeding on the mountainside and managed to not fall down, the one time I did I thought it was best to relax and just let my body slide to a bit where I could cling on. Our garden in Essex did not have the same extreme challenges, unless you count the incredible numbers of snails that ate their way through most of our English garden. I have been spending some time reflecting, yesterday about the reasons why we came to Spain, today a reflection of things...
info_outlineThe famous Okupas of Spain - squatters with more rights than the owner of the property they have illegally entered.
But are the days of the Okupas numbered?
This is our real life, in real Spain. Ten years of adventures since swapping our glorious Victorian House in leafy Essex for a tiny flat in a wild Andalusian village. I was once a Radio Producer in London, not a great one.
Feel free to comment, like and of course follow - it really helps the show.