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 The Mediterranean diet is often credited with helping Spanish people live longer, but family and city living seem to help along the way
Now here's a conundrum: if you could do anything to prolong the lives of your parents, would you do it? Of course you would. But what if that thing meant having them come and live with you? Mmm.
It seems that in northern European countries, only about 5% of elderly parents live with their children, while in Spain the figure is about 45%. And a recent study by Madrid's Universidad Autónoma suggests that this may be one of the reasons why Spanish people live so long – in Madrid, men are living an average of 78 years, and women a whopping 85.
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 Trying to understand the Spanish sense of humour may leave you feeling like an octopus in a garage
Poetry, according to the poet Robert Frost, is what gets lost in translation; but the same is also true of humour. Anyone zapping through Spanish TV stations might be forgiven for believing that Spanish people are, like five year-old children, amused only by the most basic form of slapstick - a seemingly endless parade of men in drag, falling over and shouting abuse at one another.
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Win a week-long language course in Barcelona |
 Spain magazine and Cactus, the language training company, are offering the chance for one lucky Spain Magazine reader and a friend to jet off to bustling Barcelona and learn Spanish on location. You and your friend could win a week of Spanish lessons with Cactus’s partner school in Barcelona, International House, right in the heart of Europe’s most exciting city. Whatever your language ability, you’ll be able to brush-up your skills by immersing yourself in Barcelona life, staying either with a host family (B&B) or with other students in a self-catering apartment. |
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 The most important thing you can give a child is a good education, but what do you do when the public system is letting kids down?
As in the UK, and probably in other countries as well, middle-class parents in Spain who consider themselves to be "progressive" are being faced with a dilemma: their principles tell them their children should be educated in the public system, but with the public system in such a mess, they are being forced (though of course its their choice) to pay for a private education.
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Win the latest Linguaphone Spanish allTalk |
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 Spain magazine and Linguaphone are offering three lucky Spain magazine readers the chance to win the very latest audio only course to teach you to spaeak Sapnish.
All you have to do to enter is answer the simple question opposite and send in your entry by January 31st .
With over 100 years experience, Linguaphone is still producing some of the best home study language courses money can buy.
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