Flaming Nora

Back from a wonderful, relaxing holiday to a quiet part of Spain. Holiday photos are now online at Flickr. If you'd like to view them, they're here. Find out more about me and my books. Click on the image below : I'm on twitter @flaming_nora

Before I visited Malaga for the first time, last week, I followed @GuideToMalaga on twitter for their helpful hints and tips about getting the most from a visit there. They were hugely helpful. I've visited many Spanish cities in the past - Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Cadiz, Granada, Palma - and was keen to see how Malaga would compare. And now I'm back from Malaga after a wonderful city break there, I've written a blog post for Guide to Malaga. It's all about my first impressions of this magical Spanish city. You can read it here and I hope you like it. Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - official ITV tribute to a soap icon. Available here. I'm on twitter @flaming_nora

Just back from a wonderful few days to Malaga in Spain.  Some of my pictures on flickr here . Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - official ITV tribute to a soap icon. Available here. I'm on twitter @flaming_nora

Spent the first day back from holiday drinking lashings of tea (because they don't make it properly over there) and catching up with Coronation Street.  Oh, and uploading the holiday photos to flickr for public consumption.  Hav e a look at them here .

Just back from a wonderful two week holiday in Spain. The resort we stay in is robustly Spanish, with only approx. 5% of the visitors being English, so it's little surprise that restaurant and cafe menus aren't translated into English.  It's half the fun of the holiday sitting over a vino tinto or cerveza trying to decipher the Spanish menu into English with the help of a dictionary.  But some of the cafes do try to make an effort and in one of the very few that had the menu in English, we came across this rather odd translation.  Well, it's not really odd as the English word for the Spanish "pijama" is indeed, "pyjama". And so if anyone knows what Pjyama With Cream actually tastes like, I'd love to find out! And this second picture was taken for the very simple reason that Farton is a funny word in English. Well, it made me laugh and of course I had to try one. I can therefore confirm that a Farton is a soft, sweet, stick of pastry that you...