In October the weather in the south of Spain is still perfect, no too hot and not too cold, a great time for walking. A nice opportunity to discover the unknown sides of Marbella during the walking event Marbella 4Days Walking.
The historic city centre will be the starting point for the 20 and 30 km routes which will lead...

 Having recently spent some time travelling in India it started me thinking how it would be to run our shop, Sugar and Spice, like a shop in a typical Indian tourist town.
We’ll need to redecorate; we’re going to need tinsel and lots of it. And fairy lights, we’re definitely going to need fairy lights in as many colours...

  I remember mine well; I was really nervous. She asked me how old I was; I lied and told her I was 18. It was over really quickly and afterwards she breathlessly asked me if I would like another one. I replied “Yes please love and can I have a bag of cheese and onion crisps as well?”
Well I have no idea what you filthy...

Many of you have asked if we can increase our range of ornamental grasses in the garden centre – so I’m pleased to tell you that we have. In fact we’ve gone very grassy!   Ornamental grasses have been popular and well used in the U.S. for many years but their presence in gardens in Europe has largely been...

Campo Cuttings by Lorraine Cavanagh. The Acid Lovers – in Spanish arandanos. There are so many fabulous fruits that we can grow in Spain and market stalls are bulging with it in all shapes, sizes and colours but there are two fruit plants that we sell a lot in the garden centre that are very rarely seen to buy fresh – blueberries and...

   Apparently a shingles epidemic has hit town, as Karen relays the gory details of those struck down with this horrible illness Andy starts to fidget, “I’ve been feeling a bit off all week” he says, Karen asks if he has a rash and promptly dashes upstairs to check. 
This isn’t an unusual occurrence...

   An elegant evening of dance performed under a star-festooned sky  Please join us for a night of Enchantment at CAMPO’s Midsummer Dance Gala being held at the Hotel Rural Alberdini on the nights of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June, 2012. 
A thoroughly cultural evening combined with a magical...

 A strenuous and hard fought dart’s season finally came to an end at the beginning of March and as always the season was packed full of incident. Dave Dawson nearly bought a round of drinks, Aurelio Perez almost managed to play for three different teams in a season, Kelly Kelsey and Geoff Etheridge played a doubles match without arguing...