Daud was the first “Celebrity” Hair Stylist in the Costa del Sol and his CV includes attending to his regular and loyal clients in places as diverse as the United Kingdom and the DominIcan Republic. Numerous articles about his successes have appeared in all the leading glamour magazines in Marbella as well as the national and international press.
This week Euro Weekly News caught up with a man who, despite his busy schedule during the festive period, was able to answer a few questions and tell us exactly how it is that he manages to travel worldwide in just one night. We are referring, of course, to Santa Claus.
ANNETTE SAHLERTZ DE FERNANDEZ is the Vice-Consul for Denmark in Malaga. Born in Odense, home to universally know writer Hans Christian Andersen, she has lived in Spain for over 30 years marrying a Spanish man with whom she has two children. Before coming to Spain she lived and studied in Basilea, Switzerland, where she worked for years in an international firm as a secretary and correspondent later working in aviation in both Denmark and Spain.
Juan Gil has been a car mechanic during all his working life and has owned and managed his own garage in Son Caliu, Palma Nova for almost ten years. During this time, he has seen quite a few changes, the type and model of cars that come into his garage, the people, the drivers and most importantly, his employees.
DAVID HARRINGTON, a charming Welshman who has been living on the Costa del Sol for the past 12 years, is about to publish an autobiography called ‘Portrait of the Wild One – Living with an alcoholic drunk, sober and both together’
Dave Arnott is the Sales Team Leader at the Marriott Vacation Club International, where he has been for the last four years. He started as a sales executive and then went to Paris for three months to return to the island as Sales Team Leader. He has a staff of about ten people on his sales team, but together with his other responsibilities, he is ultimately responsible for a sales force of 40 people of all different nationalities.
A man not scared of needles or the occasional fast, this week the EuroWeekly News speaks to Acupuncturist and Natural Therapist Ignacio Fernandez Molina about alternative medicines.
JAVIER ORIHUELA, now better known by his artistic name OKE, is a young artist born in Malaga, whose talent is allowing him to make a name for himself on the national music scene with an innovative sound. This week, Euro Weekly News talks to the young singer and finds out what he has planned for the future.
Lee New has been on the island of Mallorca for some six years now and has studied and trained in hypnotherapy, psychology and counselling at Brighton University. She met and married her husband Roger in London, but came to Mallorca with him in 2003.
Meet Alexandra Forth, the entrepreneur behind the VIP Pets group of companies based in the Costa del Sol. Alexandra, or Alex as she likes to be known, is an accomplished businesswoman that always dreamed of fulfilling her childhood dream of creating a haven for dogs (and cats), and now that she has finally achieved it, we find out more about her.
Albert Chavarria, aged 37, was born in El Salvador but moved to Madrid with his family when he was a little boy. At the beginning of the 1980s, in his pre-teens, he moved to the Costa del Sol and became a student at the private school Sunny View, which at the time had only been open for a decade or so.
Åage Norman Eilertsen has been running his choir, the Modum Kammerkor, in his native Norway since 1983. It has grown considerably from its humble roots as a group of Åage’s music-loving friends, having since graced the stage all over Europe. But this is the choir’s first-ever visit to the Costa Blanca, even though Åage has been coming to Torrevieja for his holidays for the past seven years. An exciting agenda was in store for the choir during their week on the Costa, which Åage told the Euro Weekly News all about…
Maria Petrak came to the Costa del Sol, which seemed to be a perfect place for her and her son after 14 years of living in Austria. She has always had two different careers, as a holistic therapist and as a business entrepreneur. Before coming to Spain, she lived in Vienna and worked as a project assistant in UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation).
Sheila MacMillan is the president of the Wordsmiths Toastmasters Club in Mallorca, with meetings being held every Wednesday evening at the Hotel Horizonte just on the outskirts of Palma City.
The Happy Hooker on her new book, life, Spain and, of course, sex XAVIERA HOLLANDER is the famous New York madam from the 1970s, author of 17 books, including the extremely successful ‘The Happy Hooker’ that sold in excess of 16 million copies worldwide.
Local celebrity Tony Rivers has jetted round the globe with Cliff Richard, sung on UK number one hit records and even played at Live Aid with Elton John.
JUAN MANUEL SANCHEZ-LAFUENTE GEMAR is a graduate nurse and physiotherapist. He has worked as an associated professor and has been co-director of post-grade courses in the University College of Health Science of Malaga. He has worked as a physiotherapist since 1984 and he is leading a new project in Malaga.
Tom Leeming has been The Quizmaster at the Ship in Portals Nous on Monday nights for quite some time now and manages to keep minds and brains ticking over, as well as sometimes having to keep the teams in order.
AS I sat and waited for Jennifer to arrive, I couldn’t help but notice one of the staff at her Benijofar branch of Jennifer Cunningham y Asociados, who was helping an elderly British couple with some information regarding their car insurance. Her tact and helpfulness was refreshing, and without pushing one of their policies she seemed more intent on actually helping the gentle old lady make head or tail of her existing policy.
NICK SNELLING is from the UK and has been living in Spain for the past six years although he has known Spain well since before General Franco died. His mother, Dawn Stafford, is a poet living in San Pedro de Alcantara who has been here for the past forty years. So, in many respects, this is naturally his second country – and one that he has seen radically change over the past thirty-five years.
Maurice Boland hosts The Mid Morning Show throughout August whilst Howard Brereton takes his annual August break. We caught up with Boland at the Talk Radio Europe studios. I started off by asking him about getting up early in the mornings.
PRIOR to moving to Spain in 2001, Stuart Wright was the sales director of a large UK printing group and for a number of years he had spent half of his life living in hotels and flying all over the place on business: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Poland, France - you name it.
XAVIERA HOLLANDER is the famous New York madam from the 1970’s, author of 17 books, including the extremely successful ‘The Happy Hooker’ that sold in excess of 16 million copies worldwide. There are not enough pages in this newspaper to catalogue all Xaviera’s achievements and certainly not enough to capture her eventful life. She splits her time between her home in Amsterdam’s Gold Coast and a villa in our very own Marbella.
Cristina Perello is what is known on the island of Mallorca as ‘half and half’, meaning she is half Spanish and half English. Her father is Spanish and her mother is from England, but she, together with her twin sister was born, brought up and educated in Mallorca.
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