16 May
Beaten in play-off - Alejandro Cañizares
VETERAN SPANISH golfer José María Cañizares won three play-offs out of six during a celebrated professional career, including his only US Champions Tour (seniors) victory after nine extra holes against Gil Morgan at the 2001 Toshiba Senior Classic. […]
12 May
THE COSTA DEL SOL’S famed beach clubbing season is already hotting up, with revellers getting into the mood at Nikki Beach’s first “Amazing Sunday” at the start of May. This chilled-out afternoon began with the hip crowd enjoying laidback house music, cocktails and champagne before the volume was turned up with live entertainment from saxophonists, dancers and drummers. […]
12 May
THE COOL Marbella crowd will be out in force again this year for one of the hottest dates of the summer season: the Buddha Beach Summer Party. […]
1 May
LUXURY, HIGH-TECH and a décor based on the five senses have been brought together in what has been described as a “new concept” of boutique hotel on the Costa del Sol.
The four-star Hydros Boutique Spa & Wellness hotel in Benalmádena, inaugurated by the Peñarroya Group’s Holiday World complex, comprises 24 suites and four deluxe suites, all with their own jacuzzi and terrace. […]
29 Apr
SHIRALEE COLEMAN was doing the customary Australian working holiday tour of Europe when she found herself in Marbella last year. […]
25 Apr
ANDALUCÍA currently has eight Michelin-star restaurants – and their chefs (“all friends”) met up in Marbella to celebrate El Lago’s 10th anniversary. […]
17 Apr
THE WISH LIST Fund raised €11,990 from its inaugural gala in Marbella. Held at La Meridiana, the cocktail dinner attracted donations from the German Lions Club, Children for Peace, Charity and Pleasure and SG Hambros Bank (Gibraltar) Limited, as well as photographers Johnny and Juan Carlos. Villa Padierna donated an undisclosed amount to the Ciudad de los Niños children’s home directly. […]
10 Apr
TIGER WOODS…in November 2009 at the winner’s press conference following the Australian Masters, when asked about a shot from 180 metres on the 16th that lipped out of the hole, “Was it as good for you as it was for us?”:
“Well,“ (pause for effect), “let’s just say that if the ball had gone in the hole I might have had to light up a smoke afterwards.”
…one-time member of the Lutheran Church, in a 1988 interview in George magazine:
“Organised religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that’s the way. And that’s what makes America cool, you know?”
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY…US Vice President from 1965 to 1969, in a line from one of his speeches – sometimes described as the “liberals’ mantra”:
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ-CASTAÑO…four-time European Tour champion, during a clinic for juniors in Madrid (reported in the March issue of the PGA España magazine):
“Once, playing in Japan, I went to the gym at seven in the morning and there were two people there – they were Tiger Woods and his caddie – and I thought, ‘If the world number one goes to the gym at six in the morning, what time do the rest of us have to go?’”
MIKE TYSON…the youngest man to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world world heavyweight boxing titles (he won the WBC title at 20), speaking while being interviewed at the end of the documentary Tyson:
“What I did in the past is history; what I’ll do in the future is a mystery.”
RUPERT MURDOCH…on 2 January 2011 at the launch of The Daily iPod publication:
“The magic of newspapers and blogs is the element of surprise and the deft touch of a good editor.”
… 2011 US Open tennis champion on Australians’ sportsmanship:
“We grow up being taught that, whether you’re playing tennis or whatever other sport, be respectful and friendly and nice to people. In tennis nowadays, maybe that kind of gets lost. I think it’s important you go out there and play between the lines and play a good match. That’s the way I was always taught to play: go out there and have respect for every single opponent you play.”
… celebrated US poet, novelist and short story writer:
“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
… US blues musician:
“Hobos are people who move around looking for work, tramps are people who move around but don’t look for work, and bums are people who don’t move and don’t work. I’ve been all three.
… former baseball star, of “It’s deja vu all over again” and “It ain’t over ’till it’s over” fame), asked if he wanted pizza cut into four or eight pieces:
“Better make it four. I don’t think I could eat eight.”
2 Apr
THE WORLD according to former Minister for Health in Finland Dr Rauni Kilde… a view that is frighteningly plausible.
2 Apr
(Photos: David Toms)
THE SCENE was slightly surreal. Several corpulent and suited Spanish travelling salesmen sitting at separate tables tucking into fried goats cheese salad, soya burgers, vegetable “shepherd’s pie”, and almond and carrot cake.
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