Sunday, September 16, 2012

How to Get a Head Start and Achieve Business Success

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Friday, February 26, 2010

El Burgo`s Day Of The Soup

EL BURGO`s day of the soup takes place on Sunday 28th. February. The "Sopa de Los Siete Ramales" (soup of seven ingredients) owes its name to the soups seven main items - tomatoes, pepper, onion, garlic, bread, mint and green asparagus. The townsfolk of El Burgo are the experts in preparing the dish.

The festival draws visitors from all over a wide area. The townspeople prepare the soup over open stoves in the traditional way, accompanied by live music and dancing.
This is a nice friendly event that is worth taking time to attend. El Burgo as a repetition as a very friendly and welcoming place for visitors.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Who Matters - Who Never Did

I found this in an e-mail and now is on my wall.


There comes a point in your life when you realize:

Who matters.

Who never did.

Who won't anymore.

And who always will.

So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Spanish Houses for Sale

Spanish houses for sale in Malaga Province. see www.spanishlocations4sale.webs.com

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Spain Produces 50% of Electricity From Windpower

Spain was celebrating its commitment to renewable energy yesterday after wind turbines dotted across the country produced more than half of all its electricity for the first time.

High winds across Spain on Sunday meant that for over five hours, over 53 per cent of the country’s power came from wind energy. The towering white wind turbines which loom over Castilla-La Mancha — home to Cervantes’s hero Don Quixote — and which dominate other parts of Spain, set a new record in wind energy production.

Most of the wind power was used immediately, 6 per cent was stored and 7.7 per cent was exported to France, Portugal and Morocco.

In the past decade Spain has relentlessly invested in wind power, along with other renewable sources, making it the third-biggest supplier after the United States and Germany. Luis Atienza, president of Red Eléctrica which runs Spain’s electricity grid, said: “This makes us proud. There is no other country of our size which has completed and bettered a renewable energy production of over 50 per cent in such a timescale.”

José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s Prime Minister, a strong believer in renewable energy, has hinted his Government may phase out nuclear plants.

The move has provoked opposition from within the nuclear industry, his own party and from the opposition conservative Popular Party.

Spain began its wind power push in 1997, but five years ago critics believed it could not produce more than 14 per cent of the country’s electricity.

Wind farms have produced 17,700 megawatt-hours (mWh) of electricity so far this year, but renewable energy industry figures believe this figure could rise to 40,000mWh by 2020.

Spain’s Socialist Government invested €991 million (£890 million) in wind power in 2007. Already it has reaped a return on its investment; in 2007 it saved €1 billion on fossil fuels, according to the Spanish Environment Ministry.

José Donoso, president of the Spanish Wind Energy Association, said: “A few years ago no one would have predicted these figures but we believe we can go on rising.

“It will be good for the environment and reduce our importation of fossil fuels.”

Red Electrica said this year wind power is expected to produce 13 per cent of all electricity, hydroelectric power 10 per cent and solar power 2.5 per cent. Spain’s solar industry is one of the fastest growing in the world.

Nuclear energy produced 20.9 per cent of Spain’s energy needs last year and critics claim the country cannot dispense with a source which supplies almost a fifth of its power.

One admirer of Spain’s sustainable energy programme is President Obama.

During a meeting with Mr Zapatero at the White House last month, the US President praised Spain as a “worldwide leader” in renewable energy.

The Times 10 November 2009

Friday, September 25, 2009

Biodiesel Provides Third of Andalucias Diesel Consumption

By the end of the year Andalucia will become Spain’s biggest biodiesel producing area. Biodesiel is a substitute fuel for diesel engines, produced from vegetable oils, or animal fats, six plants are already operating in the area. A total of eighteen plants will be in operation by 2010 and these plants will provide 33% of the fuel used in Anderlucia. There are currently 88 bio-fuel filling stations open to the public in the Andalucia area with more due to open. Andalucia already leads Spain in the production of electricity produced from wind and solar energy.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Ronda's Pedro Romero Fair

Ronda’s Pedro Romero Fair

Last week my wife and I attended the Pedro Romero Fair held at the historic and beautiful inland town of Ronda. The fair started last Wednesday and attracts 200,000 people to the town over five days. The fair’s traditional events include three bull fights and a bullfighting on horseback show held on the Saturday and Sunday. We personally do not like bullfighting and give the shows a miss. Visitors are invited to the Wine Museum at midday on the Friday to watch the crushing of the grapes, which coincides with the start of the grape harvest. The town centre and the fair ground have many events and actives day and night throughout the fair and the atmosphere as to be experienced to be believed.