Empuriabrava Online Blog and News

UEFA have accepted an application from the Andorran FA to change the Andorra v England qualifier from Andorra (ground capacity 1800) to Espanyol’s Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
This obviously means that more tickets will be available for the game and alleviate any problems such as the security hassle experience when England last played in Liechtenstein.
I’ve never […]

Get ready for a spell of cold weather that is due to arrive over the next few days with temperatures expected to hit freezing by the end of the week.
Health agencies in the region have been put on alert to deal with flu and other cold weather emergencies. Northern Spain is expected to suffer from […]

The town council have announced that four pétanque pitches are being built on the beach at Empuriabrava near the mouth of the Muga.
Pétanque is a form of boules and is very popular here in Empuriabrava. You will often see players playing in Parc Trabuc where there are pitches but you will also see people playing […]

The British Society of Catalunya is having an Internet training session today run by yours truly.
As part of the training session we will be looking at blogs and I’m writing this so that the group can see how to add comments.
Hello to everyone on the course and I hope you are having fun!

This Empuriabrava Online website is now Number 1 in the Google.co.uk results for the search term “empuriabrava.” This has been my long term aim since I started this website and so I’m very pleased.
Why the title “One in a Million?” According to Google, there are 1,080,000 results for “empuriabrava.”

Figures released by the Spanish Mortgage Association show that the total volume of mortgages in Spain has reached 900 billion Euros, up 23.8% on last year and predictions estimate that the figure will reach 1000 billion this year.
Figures elsewhere show a slowdown in the rate of property price increases for resale houses. Barcelona prices rose […]

The Winter Sales have started in shops around Catalonia. Catalans are expected to spend, on average, 250€ in the sales which last between 7th January to 7th March and traders are expecting to see a 4%-8% increase in sales.
Around 30 000 businesses are offering discounts of up to 50% and warm winter clothing is expected […]

The introduction of driving licence penalty points has been cited by Minister for the Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, as the reason for the reduction in road related deaths over the Christmas and New Year period in Spain.
There were 95 fatal accidents between 3pm on Friday December 22 to midnight last night causing 115 deaths, […]