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Musings about Booking a Holiday

Flip a coin and decide where you're going next on holiday, is that how you decide or do you have a list of places you want to see and then plan to visit them, checking them off one after the other. The reason I ask is that I tend to not plan trips, and th

Excel Formulas for Programmers and Engineers

Have you ever worked with Excel? The spreadsheet program from Microsoft? If you have you'll know how powerful it is, but completely useless if you don't know how to do calculations. Here's a new site I'm proud of and want to share, a simple and easy blog

Flamenco dancing is one of the cultural highlights of Spain, and was originally introduced by the gypsies from India who spread across Europe. In Spain they are called gitanos. Here's a picture I took at a live show a few years ago of a young woman dancin

Best Countries to do Business

Here's a very interesting article about doing business around the world, and the best countries to do so, with Hong Kong and the Netherlands taking the number one and number two spots, followed by the USA in third place. I find it fascinating that some of

International Currency Exchange

A while back I lived in the States before coming to Spain, as well as the UK, and I still do business there, which is a hassle considering all three have their own currency. Living in the Eurozone makes you realize how much of an advantage it is to have a

Autumn Colours in Spain

Summer 2011 seemed to drag on forever, and even now in winter it feels more like autumn, I hope it doesn't mean we're going to have a cold wet summer this year. Here's a photo I took a while back of what things should look like here, but everything is gre

Rudeboy car decal

Couldn't believe it when I walked past this car the other day. Offsets white paintwork and red scratch perfectly. Where do we buy decals like these?

Start a real business and leave the job market behind

2011 was a bad year, unemployment has been rising, and it looks like 2012 won't be much better, but with the need to earn an income a lot of people are looking around for other options. My favourite is to create your own job, you could for example become

Sunrise in Spain, it really is this lovely

Yes, sunrise in Spain can be spectacular, and this is a photo I took in spring showing how incredible the sun can be. In real life this scene was even more golden than the camera is able to capture, it was like the gods themselves painted the sky with gol

Lehman Brother's Exec to be Spain's Economy Minister

Well it looks like Spain really is in for rough times if the best economist our new government could find to be Economics Minister is also a former executive for Lehman Brothers.

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