End of the

As you can tell I'm not very good at keeping this blog up to date.

I have made a descision recently to do something a little different...so watch this space...although I won't be blogging much on here from now on!

End of the blog?

As you can tell I'm not very good at keeping this blog up to date.

I have made a descision recently to do something a little different...so watch this space...although I won't be blogging much on here from now on!

Ads on Spanish TV to be reduced

If you watch Spanish TV, especially TVE1 and TVE2 you'll know what I'm talking about when I say that the number and length of adverts on those channels are a real turn off. It's actually why we stopped watching those channels.

So today I was quite exctied to read this article but then realised that something somewhere is very wrong. They are currently supposed to not show more than 10 mintues of ads every hour....that's rubbish! For example, Telediario finishes at 9:45. Then at 10:00 there is 5 minutes of weather (yes, 5 minutes) then another 10 or 15 minutes of ads. Then a film starts and 10 minutes later another set of ads. Where is the 10 minute limit?

So now they are going to reduce it to 9 minutes from next year....yeah right, as if they are really going to respect that too.

I for one will still not bother watching those channels with more ads than programmes.

Off of my soapbox now and get back to work.

Jenson Button and Brawn GP on pole in Australia

What an exciting qualifying session in Australia for tomorrow's formula 1 race. Really happy for Jenson Button on his pole position and Rubens Barrichelo in second. What an amazing result for the new team Brawn GP.

Let's see if Jenson can pull it off.

Seems Alonso wasn't very competitive and neither was Hamilton...interesting race ahead.

Looking forward to Australia Formula 1 action

It's been painful waiting for the Formula 1 season to come round again but it's finally here.

It looks like Hamilton has been struggling a little in the practice sessions so let's hope they can sort something out for qualifying tomorrow.  I'll be up at 6am to watch it.

It will be interesting to see how Alonso gets on this season too.  He's not really my favourite driver at all but you can't deny the guy's super talented.

Some of us will be going to the Eye on Spain office on Sunday morning to watch the race which should be good.  Another early start but Selwyn says he's going to cook us all a fry up...although I don't think he realises how many of us will actually be there.

Anyway, best get to bed, will be up in a bit to watch the qualifying.

Now, I'm just testing something so please ignore the following....

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Cheese please

Really enjoyed putting together today about's Sieasta Show at the cheese factory in Casares. Juan Ocaña is the main man at the cheese factory in Casares making a truly wonderful product. It's just past the Casares turn off on the road to Gaucin. Well worth a visit to pick up some of his excellent cheese.

Adana animal rescue centre

For today's webisode of The Siesta Show we visited the animal rescue centre, Adana, based in Estepona. We were really impressed by the commitment of the volunteers there. They work incredibly hard looking after 150 abandoned dogs that they have rescued.

But, they could do with more help and more money. Can you help?

Watch today's webisode about Adana

We do a supermarket price comparison in Spain today

For today's Siesta Show we went to five different supermarkets in Spain to buy some essentials and compare prices. We bought five items in each store and the difference is over 1 Euro between the cheapest and the most expensive. That could make quite a different to a normal weekly shop.

Go and take a look a today's price comparison video >>