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on February 25, 2019

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The Virgin of Terque

The alleged appearance of the Virgin Mary in a cave in the 1950s in the village of Terque (Almería) led to months of mass hysteria. It was an extraordinary event that caused an intense mobilisation of thousands of people. On the 24th April 1954, the parish church of Alhabia, a neighbouring village to Terque, was broken into, looted and a statue of the Virgin of the Rosary was stolen. The Civil Guard were informed and an investigation carried out but the perpetrators were not located and the crime remained unsolved. The following year, on the afternoon of 11th April 1955, Easter Sunday (Día de la Resurrección), a teacher from Terque was walking through the countryside on the outskirts of the village with a group of girls in an area known as "La Cañada" when suddenly one of the girls started shouting hysterically that she had seen the Virgin Mary in the cave. Some of the children who were with her also claimed in those first moments to have seen the vision as well. As it was

Restaurante El Picadero, Torrox Costa

After a recent visit to this restaurant, I thought it might be a good idea to re-post this blog entry from 2014. It was just twelve months ago (this post was originally published in 2014) that I walked through the doors of El Picadero on Torrox Costa and it was by pure chance. We had gone down to the coast one day last springtime, to escape a cold, wet and miserable day in Cómpeta and, thankfully, we found sunshine. What we didn´t find though, was the restaurant that we wanted to go to open! El Picadero was and in we went. We had a really enjoyable lunch that day and shortly afterwards I struck up a Facebook friendship with the General Manager of the restaurant, José Sánchez Rico, better known as Pepe, and since then we have visited the restaurant on numerous occasions. I had seen a couple of old photos of El Picadero on their menu board outside and they had fascinated me. So I asked Pepe if he could tell me a little of the history of El Picadero and I said I would like to share i

The Daily Joke Returns

The Daily Joke. Well, I'm back! 😉 After a short absence, the daily Twitter joke and, if I can come up with more, daily photo is returning. The short social media break I made started in the early hours of Friday 24th July with a pet medical emergency. I was woken at around 4am by our 16 year old neutered tom cat, Joey, making a strange noise and was then aware he was struggling to stand upright. He had been asleep at the foot of our bed and he jumped off, landed awkwardly and then tried to run upstairs. It was clear he was not well at all. It is in the nature of animals to want to run away and hide when they feel vulnerable and in Joey's case that was no exception. He wanted to go outside. Our doors were closed so he just sat and meowed loudly at the door, looking up at me and pleading to be let out. He was acting abnormally, moving his head from side to side and seeming as if he was finding it difficult to focus. His back legs were weak and he was unab

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