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Preview: Vuelta a España 2013Wednesday 21 August 10:08Eleven summit finishes with Angliru as the final decisive climbThe route of the 2013 Vuelta a Espana (ASO)The 2013 Vuelta a España, will take an anti-clockwise route around Spain, starting with four stages amongst the hills and sea lochs of Galicia before heading south through Extremadura and Andalusia, eastwards into Catalonia, Andorra and France before returning to the north for the showdown on the ultra-hard Angliru - where Juan Jose Read more [...] Deadly derailment in Spain Previous Next Read more [...] About Annie Bennett Annie Bennett has been living in Spain on and off since the 1980s. She wrote the National Geographic Traveler Madrid guidebook as well as Blue Guides to Madrid and Barcelona. She has won several awards, including Spain Travel Writer of the Year. About Fred Mawer Fred Mawer is our Florida and Caribbean expert. He has been writing about the two regions for the Daily Telegraph and other publications for more than for 15 years. Click here to find Read more [...] About Annie Bennett Annie Bennett has been living in Spain on and off since the 1980s. She wrote the National Geographic Traveler Madrid guidebook as well as Blue Guides to Madrid and Barcelona. She has won several awards, including Spain Travel Writer of the Year. About Fred Mawer Fred Mawer is our Florida and Caribbean expert. He has been writing about the two regions for the Daily Telegraph and other publications for more than for 15 years. Click here to find Read more [...] MANILA, Philippines - Some 2,216 families or 9,747 residents of Taguig City have so far been rescued as of 2 p.m. Tuesday from 17 flooded barangays of the city and evacuated to 26 evacuation areas. The rescue operations started early Monday when heavy downpour churned by the monsoon (habagat) started pounding Metro Manila. Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano assured the city’s residents that the local government is doing its best to tend to those in flooded areas. “They are now housed in evacuation Read more [...] Parcours preview Distance: 186.4km Category: Rolling Highest point: 590m This is a stage the Spanish would describe as rompepiernas, also known as 'a leg-breaker'. There is no really serious climbing but there is hardly a metre of flat road either. The route is up and down constantly as it weaves it way from Lalín in the heartland of Galicia to Fisterra land's end in the Galician language. The final destination for many of the pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago route provides a final test for Read more [...] Parcours preview Distance: 27km Category: Team time trial Highest point: 110m The Vuelta and Galicia have taken a shine to each other in recent years. The race started in Vigo in 2007 and has returned regularly since, most recently last year for no fewer than five stages, one of which finished in Sanxenxo, where German sprinter John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) blasted to victory. This team time trial will, of course, be very different. The test starts at seven in the evening on a pontoon anchored Read more [...]

Rosalia Mera Goyenechea was born on January 28 1944 in a working–class neighbourhood of La Coruña, and left school aged 11 to work as a sales assistant in a clothing shop. In 1966 she married Amancio Ortega, the son of a railway worker who had also dropped out of school, aged 13, to run errands for a clothing shop. As their business grew, however, their marriage came under strain. The couple had a daughter, but a son was born mentally handicapped, and in 1983 Ortega fathered Read more [...] by LEO OLIVEROPANORAMAdailyGIBRALTAR: Only two days after the Spanish Fisheries and Environment Minister Miguel Arias Canete made a rousing speech threatening that his Government was going to come down hard on those Gibraltar companies who administer ship bunkers from vessels out in BGTW, quite astonishing news is received that the Spanish Government over the last few months has systematically issued at least four licences that exclusively permits international bunkering companies to refuel vessels Read more [...]

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