Euro Weekly News | Ric Polansky
The “Good Factor” of these quiet times is meeting old friends and NOW having enough time to talk with them. Marilyn and Reverend Jerry Taylor suit that reckoning as she bought way back in 1971. Her land, home, all legal fees, and taxes didn’t surpass $9,000 (€6,880). The only hitch…
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MY VERY first Spanish teacher was a man amongst men, a titan of society, a pillar of admiration, extremely well liked and admired even by those that sought his capture. MF was his name and he headed the construction crew that built La Gaviota complex back in 1969. MF lived in…
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BACK in those ‘olden days’ we had five weeks to earn an entire year’s wages... one week at Easter and four weeks in August. The whole area lived that way. Those were the weeks of ‘tourism’. No one visited Mojacar any other time. That was it. If you didn’t make it…
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OUR new bar had no business, ever. Then, having “wished upon a star” so frequently I had lost count, two spectacular French girls came in looking for work. They were bright too. When I explained to them the situation really required was my protection from irate clients for construction mistakes,…
THE houses we were selling for as little as €12,000 we could actually construct for about a third that. That is, if someone knew how to build them. We didn’t. Consequently our time was spent placating outraged clients. In every aspect of building our workers had found ingenious ways to…
THE fraud case against British property businessman Darragh MacAnthony has been shelved. Judge Beatriz Fernandez from Marbella courts has closed the file on the basis of the alleged frauds being committed “overseas”, as well as the suspects being “foreigners.” She decided that the case should be closed “due to the…
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THE construction business was problematic. If there had been a financial analyst living then that did “time motion studies” we would have failed before they started observing. We simply were spending more time apologizing and placating disgruntled clients than working. There simply weren’t enough hours in a normal day to…
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THE world got flipped early for me. I hadn’t even heard of the Mayans and their end of the world scenario, but one fact I quickly discovered was that when you sold someone a house and they moved in, they wanted the world to quit spinning and time to stop…
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The early 70´s in Mojacar was the best of times and the greatest of times. Almost anyone you spoke to was interested in having “their place in the sun.” Since the average cost was less than $10,000 for a 2-3 bedroom house with land people bought as if I had…
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MADRID of the early 60s was like one big club house for the American’s that had gravitated there drawn by the lure of Hemingway’s short stories that promised cheap living, blood pounding adventures and an entirely different way of life far different than the drab conformist Monastic era of button…
LET me think now. How many shopping days left until Christmas? How many days left until the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar? Umm, looks like I really don’t have to go shopping! Well, the entire Mayan story has been a hoax perpetrated amongst people that just…
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Tonight, Thursday, is that most American of festivals, Thanksgiving. Ric Polansky explains. AMERICAN’S, as overtly ostentatious as they appear to the foreign public, have never actually been a festive folk. No lavish bonfire nights, nor frequently celebrated saint’s days either. However, they have one holiday in common that is as…
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IN a not so surprising an election victory. America has resoundingly turned its back on an “independent thinking”, strict business approach to running what has grown into a multifaceted government of gargantuan size and opted for reliance upon a “big brother arrangement”. The choice between the two major parties couldn’t…
TRULY, the village was the easier place for making social comparisons and generalised learning. The surrounding countryside was totally perplexing. There, life was slow and habitual. Time stopped. It never existed. Not only was time ‘changeless’, so were the people - same black clothes day after day. The ‘mañana syndrome’…
MOJACAR was the easiest place in the world to drop “into” once you had decided to “drop out of” whatever ailed you. For me, it was Vietnam. Friends and classmates had been coming back in body bags to be mourned for dying without a cause. The war then wasn’t just…
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