Justin's Life

We were in Malaga city on Saturday night to absorb some of the Christmas spirit (which seems rather absent in Manilva area) and to take in the amazing lights they've set up this year.

You'll have to excuse the poor quality of the photos I took on my phone...it's just not up to the task and doesn't do the lights any justice!

It's definitely worth going to Malaga in the evening, it feels really Christmasey there and the lights everywhere are amazing.  It was buzzing too, certainly didn't feel like there was a crisis on!

Calle Larios (The main streeet)

The main square at the end of Calle Larios

Huge number of Christmas stalls, next to the main road

Lovely huge belen (nativity scene) on roundabout at bottom of Calle Larios

Gorki restaurant where we ate...very good and very popular! www.gorki.es

Around this time two years ago I recommend Eye on Spain contributor Victoria Twead’s book “Chicken’s, Mules and Two Old Fools” as the top gift to buy for Christmas.

I loved Vicky’s first book. So funny and well written and ever since then I’ve been really looking forward to the sequel. I needed to read more!

Well, I was lucky recently to have been given an advanced copy of the new sequel, “Two Old Fools – Ole” and what a blinder Vicky’s pulled again.

I think this new book, which is now available for sale on Amazon, is even better than the original.

Do you love Spain? You’ll love this book!  It's all about Vicky and Jo's life in a tiny village in Southern Spain and you would never think there would be so much to write about considering the village is practically empty apart from at weekends.  This is a proper laugh-out-loud book, you can't help but really enjoy it.

But don’t just take my word for it, read the other reviews on Amazon.

Grab yourself a copy, or buy it as a present for someone for Christmas, it’s brilliant.

This is a subtitled version of "La burbuja inmobiliaria" by Aleix Saló expaining the recent economic crisis in Spain.  It's quite funny but sadly true!