Madrid’s Electric Bike Share Tops 50,000 Sign Ups
August 20, 2015
Madrid is the first major city in Europe to offer a public bike system that only uses electric bicycles and 50,000 people have already signed up since
Madrid is the first major city in Europe to offer a public bike system that only uses electric bicycles and 50,000 people have already signed up since
Spain’s rail system, Renfe, is facing strikes next month by two key unions, the train drivers (SEMAF) and maintenance workers (CCOO). In both cases, contract negotiations are involved. The engineers have called two one-day strikes and a two-day…
This is the high part of the vacation season, and many places in Spain are geared up with special events to attract visitors. Events range from culture to music to just plain spectacularly silly, like the annual Tomatina Tomato Fight in Bunol,…
Magaluf at night, in a quieter moment… Photo: Rafael Ortega Diaz / Wikimedia Responding to repeated complaints from locals and other visitors about badly-behaved British tourists, two resort towns in Spain’s Balearic Islands…
The town of Fanzara in rural Castellon has just over 300 residents and some of the most colorful and unusual art to be seen anywhere. It’s just celebrated its second annual urban art festival. The festival uses the walls of the village as a canvas for…
Spain’s busy beaches (Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria, above) Photo: Wouter Hagens / Wikimedia If it seems like you’ve
To protect “the comfort and safety” of its passengers, budget airline Ryanair has announced it’s banning all booze, including duty-free purchases, from its flights from the UK to Spain’s vacation island of Ibiza. The airline has notified…
A small Spanish town has taken a world first: It’s formally recognized equal status for human and non-human residents of t town, and laid out rules for protection. Trigueros del Valle, a town of 300 in the province of Valladolid, passed the law…
The video above is included here because without it you might not believe the story. A Swiss tourist, visiting the Cies Islands off Galicia in Northern Spain, was filming a seagull on a cliff wall in the area, which is a protected national…
The town of Ador, in Spain’s Valencia region, worries about the future…and the present…of the traditional siesta, and has become the first town in Spain to write the right to sleep into law. Everyone in town is expected to be asleep, or at least…
Madrid is the first major city in Europe to offer a public bike system that only uses electric bicycles and 50,000
Spain’s rail system, Renfe, is facing strikes next month by two key unions, the train drivers (SEMAF) and maintenance workers (CCOO). In both cases, contract negotiations are involved. The engineers have called two one-day strikes and a two-day…
This is the high part of the vacation season, and many places in Spain are geared up with special events to attract visitors. Events range from culture to music to just plain spectacularly silly, like the annual Tomatina Tomato Fight in Bunol,…
Magaluf at night, in a quieter moment… Photo: Rafael Ortega Diaz / Wikimedia Responding to repeated complaints from locals and other visitors about badly-behaved British tourists, two resort towns in Spain’s Balearic Islands…
The town of Fanzara in rural Castellon has just over 300 residents and some of the most colorful and unusual art to be seen anywhere. It’s just celebrated its second annual urban art festival. The festival uses the walls of the village as a canvas for…
Spain’s busy beaches (Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria, above) Photo: Wouter Hagens / Wikimedia
To protect “the comfort and safety” of its passengers, budget airline Ryanair has announced it’s banning all booze, including duty-free purchases, from its flights from the UK to Spain’s vacation island of Ibiza. The airline has notified…
A small Spanish town has taken a world first: It’s formally recognized equal status for human and non-human residents of t town, and laid out rules for protection. Trigueros del Valle, a town of 300 in the province of Valladolid, passed the law…
The video above is included here because without it you might not believe the story. A Swiss tourist, visiting the Cies Islands off Galicia in Northern Spain, was filming a seagull on a cliff wall in the area, which is a protected national…
The town of Ador, in Spain’s Valencia region, worries about the future…and the present…of the traditional siesta, and has become the first town in Spain to write the right to sleep into law. Everyone in town is expected to be asleep, or at least…