Giles Brown

Giles Brown

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One night with Pablo Giles Brown rubs shoulders with the descendants of Malaga’s maestro

IN my so far rather colourful journalistic career, I’ve had the opportunity to interview the good – Rik Mayall was as brilliantly funny as you...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

5 13.04.2018

We prayed for rain and boy did it come

AS the saying goes ‘be careful what you wish for’.   Regular readers of this column will know that I have been bleating on for months about the...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

70 18.03.2018

Winter in Spain has not treated me well this year, writes Giles Brown

I HAVE a confession to make. Again. I fell a little bit out of love with Spain in February. Maybe it is a growing old thing, but I have found...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

10 04.03.2018

WINTER IS COMING: So you better wrap up or face the cold

More aptly and with apologies to all you ‘Game of Thrones’ fans out there – Winter has absolutely come. It’s been the most biting cold snap...

Giles Brown

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20 17.02.2018

New Year resolutions: Finding time to maintain personal promises can be a drag

  New Year, New You! Here we go again. It’s the first month of 2018 and that cracking and dull thudding sound that you hear all around you is...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

4 08.02.2018

Turning 50 isn’t all doom and gloom, especially when you’re in Marbella

Well, gentle reader, I finally reached the landmark birthday. My big Five Zero, which had been lurking darkly on the horizon and was as welcome as...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

10 08.02.2018

Christmas is time of hyperactive traditions with a little Russel Brand thrown in

Well. I survived Christmas 2017 with considerably fewer scars than in previous years. While most of Spain slumps into a Crimbo couch coma over the...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

4 23.01.2018

The Christmas season is the time to pat ourselves on the back

THE end of November and beginning of December is a period traditionally referred to by freelancers as ‘The Dead Zone’. It is little too early...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

10 10.12.2017

Tips on how to embrace your mid-life crisis in Spain

THERE’S been a dark cloud and a rumbling on the horizon recently. Not the weather, which seems to be permanently stuck on an early September...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

10 10.12.2017

EXCUSE ME?: Spanish radio hasn’t quite mastered the bleeping technique

IT was a usual autumn afternoon and I was casually cruising through the San Pedro tunnel. OK so I was not actually cruising but stuck in one of the...

Giles Brown

Olive Press

20 20.11.2017