Sorry seems to be the easiest word

By Rosamund Place | April 18, 2017

Canada is apologising to its immigrant communities for their treatment in the past. But where will such gestures end, the journalist Anne McIlroy asked in an online Guardian article from Ottawa.Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper**, apologised to Chinese Canadians last week for a punitive tax, first set in 1885, which was designed to keep the…

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Cruising in the Caribbean

By Berni | January 22, 2013

This is an extract from Gary Bembridge’s Tips for Travellers website. You can isten to whole piece again or fast forward to this point. It follows on from the last listening exercise by the same name, and if you wish you may listen as you read it. Begin by seeing if you can use the…

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Bulldozers stir up hornets’ nest on Costa Blanca

By Berni | April 24, 2012

  The Spanish Environment Minister Señora Narbona’s announcement in November 2007 of plans to demolish frontline properties and ban coastline building on the Costa Blanca has apparently stirred up a whole hornets’ nest. Thousands of properties could be affected by plans outlined in the Coast Sustainability Strategy report delivered recently by the Environment Assessing Council…

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Second home owning

By Cecilia Brabin | December 2, 2008

A response to an article criticising people who take over second properties in rural areas and put property prices out of the reach of local people.

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