About Paul Whitelock
Paul Whitelock is a retired former languages teacher, school inspector and translator, who emigrated to the Serranía de Ronda in 2008, where he lives with his second wife, Rita. He spends his time between Montejaque and Ronda doing DIY, gardening and writing.
Paul Whitelock has become a bit of an expert on the Spanish police over the last decade. Since he and his wife Rita moved house nine years ago…
Over the last five centuries hundreds of Spanish words have entered the English language. Here is Part Two of my selection of the more common ones.
Spanish cuisine owes a great debt to Cristóbal Colón, Christopher Columbus to us, writes Paul Whitelock. This Italian explorer and…
Over the last five centuries hundreds of Spanish words have entered the English language. Paul Whitelock has been doing some research which will result in…
¿Saben hablar los británicos idiomas extranjeros? ¿Y los españoles?Paul Whitelock descubre que no todo es positivo cuando se trata de aprender lenguas…
Brits bad at languages? What about the Spanish? Paul Whitelock discovers that all is not well with foreign language learning in the Iberian…
Paul Whitelock was taught how to make a Spanish omelette by a Basque friend at the age of 21. Here’s how…
In Ronda there is a real estate agency named after him, plus a driving school, a car park and a pub. A street also bears his name, and there is…
Paul Whitelock started learning Spanish at the age of 18. Now 52 years later he’s read a fair few books about Spain, his adopted home. Here is…
We’d been toying with the idea of getting a dog for a while and on Monday evening a friend tipped us off about a dog he’d seen on Facebook.…
By Miguel Ruiz Trigueros
El origen de las diferencias entre Ernest Hemingway y Orson Welles, puede rastrearse hasta…
By Miguel Ruiz Trigueros
This article was translated from the original Spanish by Paul Whitelock with permission from the author…
In these difficult economic times, money is short, so why not work for free? writes Paul Whitelock. It could be an answer for people struggling to make…
It’s sad to learn that the Spanish cork industry continues to struggle. Despite regular bumper crops every Autumn the price has fallen once again.…
Paul Whitelock has finally fought through the bureaucracy and red tape and has made his application for a TIE, basically a NIE with a photo. Here, he…
