From the Driver's Seat

KEN ASHLEY A   TRIBUTE TO A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING I am part of a social group of foreign nationals living in and around Pedra...

Rats are such pests. When one is known to be on the loose in the house men are known to wreck the house in trying to catch it. Certain...

The Spanish system for dealing with vehicles that have served faithfully for many years is to have it taken in by one of the many Des...

  Headline News: “30 - Vehicle Highway pile-up!” How does this happen?   If it happens where weather plays a major role the rest...

Not everyone can live close to the Mediterrean coast away from the areas that attract heavy snow and ice accumulation. I do and I’m so...

When I came to Spain in the year 2000 every other driver was a madman. The behaviour was such that they were killing themselves right, lef...

My wife and I were visiting a friend in hospital, and as we walked along the corridor to his room we found ourselves looking in the di...

Did you ever wonder about  so-called accidents happen? In perfectly good driving conditions during daylight hours two vehicles ...

The way the New Year should start is on a positive note. The Costa Levante News has done just that in their report on deaths on Valen...

CHRISTMAS 2017 has been and gone, as has Twelfth Night, also known in Spain as Dia de Los Reyes Magos. In many countries around the wo...

2017 has been the wackiest year that any of us have ever seen.   In The United States they started the year by trying a new style of p...

My fellow drivers, I'm sorry to say this but some of us will not celebrate Christmas Day nor New Year's Day because we will be dea...

It's that time of year in the run up to Christmas when something always happens that is  huge in volume and that impacts a lot of peop...

England has been trying out the Average Speed Zone check for some time and evidently it is working. The problem with stationary cameras is...

I realize that to successfully bring the world into a safer era of driving by making the driver the car itself is a long way off. The tech...

Sunday is the day for that special weekend lunch, and for maintaining our vehicles, whether that be a motorbike, truck or car. If I say th...

I was driving the motorway yesterday, Sunday 19th November when I passed a particular stretch of road along which must have been six cars ...

Every November this time of month I write something of the goings on at the race track in Cheste. After all Cheste is the pueblo next to P...

A fine that is suffered for speeding is like a tuition payment. It's something paid to learn a lesson. However, as drivers we seldom l...

There was a time in Spain when we had very little choice as to what price to pay for gas or diesel. We only had the opportunity to get ex...

Many years ago I helped my best buddy celebrate his birthday at a bar where we drank Pernod. The year before we had visited Paris and had ...

I suppose it's common sense but when we are enroute along a major motorway those services available to us by simply turning off the hi...

There are a couple of people who I note have been living here in Spain for years and they are still driving their cars with British plates...

I was driving along a two-way B road when I turned a corner and saw ahead of me a massive collection of cars and trucks pulled over along ...

In my previous blog on this subject I noted how sad I get at this time of year because the best part of the year is fading fast as it give...

I always think that this is the saddest time of the year. It has been a long, very hot Summer here in Spain with record numbers of visitor...

I have been away from my word processor for a while to allow me time to get through an emergency major medical operation, the need for w...

Without trucks the world would come to a grinding halt. This is also true of various other segments of the transportation community, but f...

A great fire broke out this week in my region about twenty kilometres away from where I live. That was much too close because this was a t...