Membership Directory

Else Beekman | Owner of 4 websites about Spain

3 of these websites are in Dutch: Inspanje.nl (news from Spain), MeerSpanje.nl (travelblog about Spain which is getting a make over) and Bestemmingandalusie.nl (travel guide for Andalusia). 

In 2021 I launched InSpain.news to offer all English speaking Spain lovers a good read.

Filip managed translation teams and volunteered as News Anchor for FTV News in English and Finnish during the first lockdown because of COVID19.

Freelance Writer and contributor for Costa del Sol Golf News

2014-15 President of the La Cala de Mijas Lions Club. Founder & Press Officer for Diabetic Support Group

Marketing consultant

A marketing consultant with over 25 years experience, Steve is a Certified Google Partner and one of the Top Contributors on the Google AdWords Community Forum. He manages advertising campaigns above the line, below the line and online.

Chris Chaplow | Publisher and Editor

Chris is the director and publisher of andalucia.com, the "information about Andalucía" website, and writes most of its content. He also has a particular interest in photography and IT and is active in the ICANN Business Constituency.

Michelle Chaplow | Professional photographer

Michelle Chaplow is a luxury hotel & travel photographer who has photographed every single province in Spain. Her work has taken her to 65+ countries.

Founder of Hotel Essence Photography
Travel Blogger for Huffington Post
Photography books published  
Staff Photographer for Andalucia.com
Contributor Efe Reportajes / Corbis / Alamy
TEDx Speaker

Louise Cook Edwards | Writer & PR

Anthony Trevor Cowham | Owner and Editor of The Costa Connection Magazine

Tony is a qualified graphic designer who had previously owned his own printing business for many years in Leeds, UK before he began working as a designer for The Costa del Sol Golf Newspaper, Spain. After the unfortunate closure of this publication, he and his wife, Wendy, launched their own publication of The Costa Connection Magazine.

Wendy Ann Cowham | Owner and Editor of The Costa Connection Magazine

Wendy arrived in Spain in 1998 to begin her post of Visual Merchandise Manager for Dunnes Stores Spain, and she also dealt with the publicity for the Spanish Dunnes Stores. She later entered into publishing with her husband when he worked at The Costa del Sol Golf Newspaper. They later launched their own publication of The Costa Connection Magazine together. Wendy has previously worked for a well-known newspaper and radio stations here on the coast.

Chris Dove | International writer & Editor

A Londoner, qualified Economist, and with a solid background in marketing and sales promotion, Chris writes, edits and reviews content for websites, blogs, print and apps.

Covering tourism, property, lifestyle and technology, satisfied high-profile clients include British Airways, Coca-Cola, Google, the European Commission and UNESCO.

Chris´s work has appeared in English, Spanish, Russian and Finnish publications, appealing to international audiences in a refreshingly upbeat style.

Gary Edwards | Photographer

After being awarded a distinction in photography and media studies in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gary Edwards worked with various professional photographers in the UK before relocating in the 1990s and setting up business in Spain. His broad experience in different sectors of photography has enabled him to establish a diverse range of international clients, from large corporate companies to small local businesses. His editorial work has been published in numerous Spain-based and international publications.

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Joan Fallon | Author & Writer

Teacher, management trainer and business woman, Joan Fallon moved to Spain in 1998 and dedicated herself to full-time writing. She is now the self-published author of seventeen books, many of which are historical novels set in southern Spain. She has more recently turned her attention to writing crime fiction. She is a member of the Society of Authors and the Alliance of Independent Authors.

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Daryl Finch | Content creator and translator (ES > EN)

Daryl is a copywriter, editor and translator (ES > EN) with a proven track record in creating high-quality, well-researched content. He has a background in journalism, having worked in many roles for SUR in English, the market-leading newspaper on the Costa del Sol, including as Assistant Editor. In 2016, he co-founded Malaga Guru, a one-stop guide to the city. More recently he has worked in digital marketing, producing multi-platform content for clients around the world. Expert topics include tourism, travel, sport, health and lifestyle.

Mogens “Mugge” Fischer | Freelance photographer, journalist, artist, presenter

Mogens “Mugge” Fischer has been living on the Costa del Sol since 2001, and has since been working for the the Scandinavian Magazines, La Danesa, En Sueco & Det Norske Magasinet, as well of running his own ArtCompany, Artenovum.

Art, culture, friends, family, events, charity and people are all high on his list of priorities. He is an outgoing, positive guy, with his own mind and a strong sense of humor. “Mugge” is an Aquarius by birth!

Fluent in Danish, English and Spanish.

Andrew Forbes | Freelance Travel Writer

Freelance travel writer, specialising in high-end and boutique hotels, the Mediterranean and wellness. Editor at The Luxury Editor (UK), Travel Writer at SUR in English newspaper (Spain). 30 year career in Marketing Communications, working within the travel & hospitality sectors.

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Nick Foster | Author & Features Writer

I'm an author and features writer for the UK broadsheets, living part of the year in Marbella. I cover real estate, architecture and travel, plus profiles of people in business and the arts. I really enjoy interviewing people and finding out what makes them tick.

I have written two true crime books -- The Jolly Roger Social Club (published in 2016) and Murder at Roaringwater (2021). I have also worked as a diplomat and a football reporter.

Sally Harrison | Freelance TV presenter

Rachel Haynes | Journalist / Editor Sur in English 

Neil Hesketh | Media and Marketing Consultant

Neil moved to southern Spain after ten years working in London in media and marketing management, including at the BBC and Daily Mail Group.

His company, Spanish Approach, draws on his diverse career experience to assist a wide-range of clients. The company aims to help Spanish-speaking companies improve their communication with their international clients and also to help English-speaking companies and media be more effective with Spanish clients.

His activity now extends to clients in Latin America. Neil is also a regular contributor to SUR in English.

Spanish Approach won the 2011 Costa del Sol Business Award for Integration in Andalusia.

Nicole King has lived and worked in Spain since 1980.   She is fluent in Spanish, a journalist and market research analyst with unique strategies for international brand introduction into Spain (Walt Disney, WGSN, HTS Besafe and Cantor + Nissel laboratories to name a few).  Nicole is also a TV & Radio producer / presenter with RTV Marbella, columnist with the Euro Weekly News and organiser of the United Nationalities of Marbella Summits.

Have been writing about golf since 2006.

Sara Laine has been writing for the Scandinavian magazines En Sueco, La Danesa and Det Norske Magasinet since 2010, as well as doing translations for several companies in Europe.

She moved to the Costa del Sol in 2009 and during the intervening years has come to love exploring all that Spain has to offer.

Languages: Swedish, English and Spanish

Robina Lambert | Freelance writer / Journalist / Translator

Freelance writer and journalist.  Author of the book ‘DOLMENS AND DUENDE’ which explores the culture, history, traditions and magic of Andalucía.

Experienced translator of legal documents and a wide range of other subjects. For information regarding officially-certified and ordinary translations from Spanish into English and English into Spanish go to   www.tttestepona.com

Peter Leonard | Journalist / Editor

Born in Sydney (Australia), Peter Leonard began his journalistic career in 1978 with the Bundaberg Newspaper Company, before travelling to Europe in 1984 and settling on the Costa del Sol, where he has worked for a diverse array of general lifestyle and specialist publications and websites/blogs.

Ali Meehan | Social Media Consultant & Imagineer 

Social Media Marketeer at Sociomimetics and Social Entrepreneur, Imagineer and Founder of Costa Women.

Patrick Meehan | Social Anthropologist & Writer 

Patrick H. Meehan is a Social Anthropologist, a twenty-year resident of Fuengirola and the author of Fuengirola Revisited, a book about 10 square kilometers of Southern Spain. Patrick is currently spending a few more years creating an expanded volume on the history of Fuengirola to be published in English and Spanish.  The research is revealing new information which he is generously sharing on the Fuengirola Revisited FaceBook Page.

In addition to this, he plays golf, walks mountains and revels in the beaches, hospitality and gastronomy surrounding his home in Los Boliches.

Helen O'Leary | Writer & Illustrator

Georgina Oliver  | Arts & Style Correspondent

Art critic / contributor to Sur in English

Covers culture and lifestyle in the Costa del Sol and Campo de Gibraltar area.

At the helm of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris (as President in 2005 and co-President for the centenary, two years later), she is also a life member of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists).

Her “distinctly Desigual” career encompasses a flamboyant art influencer debut pursued in Paris after starting out in her native “Swinging London”, a decade of hard and fast reporting for TIME Inc., as well as “a tutti frutti of editorial adventures”. Among these: a ten-year tenure as Assistant Editor of The Paris Voice, for which she wrote a trends column, and a “long-distance love affair” with sassy French glossy CitizenK International.

During the ‘noughties’, Georgina Oliver co-edited The New Waver – France’s cutting-edge, a trailblazing bookzine, “which focused on the arts, science, business and technology”, occasionally branching out into Web content, online storytelling, radio and television.

Liz Parry B.E.M.  | Former Editor of SUR in English / Writer and translator

Former editor of SUR in English (retired)

Vice President of the Costa Press Club

Communicator award

Medalla de Honor del Periodista

ACP Prize for Journalism in Pathology

British Empire Medal

Author of 'Liz Parry's Spanish Phrase Book', 'Santana's Spanish Phrase Book', and '¡Va por ti! (This is for you!)' (available at bookshops and on Amazon).

Founding member and Secretary, English Cemetery in Malaga Foundation

Member of the Board of Trustees of Cudeca Hospice

Anthony Piovesan | Journalist | Editor | Copywriter | Translator

Anthony is an award-winning writer with eight years of experience in digital and print media. He moved to Spain after seven years in Australia working as a journalist for News Corporation and Nine Network.

Anthony currently translates from Spanish into English for SUR in English and is a contributing writer for the newspaper. He also does consultancy work as a copywriter and content creator for brands and companies in Australia, the UK, US and Europe. His portfolio is available at: anthonypiovesan.c

Teuvo Peltoniemi | Science writer, journalist, researcher & trainer

Owner and editor-in-chief of Sosiomedia Ltd. His specialist topics are social and health issues, emigration, telemedicine, and technology.

He has worked since 1969 for radio, television, web, and printed media, and been a communications director.  He has produced nearly 20 non-fiction books and developed EU Internet projects on addictions, children and technology. Among his awards is the Finnish State Life Work 2011 Award on Public Information for "exemplary and unconventional public information work”.

In addition to Finnish press associations he also belongs to the International Science Writers Association (ISWA). He lives in Helsinki, Finland and Fuengirola, Spain.

Josephine Quintero | Author for Lonely Planet guide books

Kate Rayner | Journalist / Translator

Formerly employed at SUR in English, now retired but an occasional contributor to the newspaper and UK media writing about dance.

Sabine von Reth | Travel Blogger & Marketing & Events Director

I am a Marketing and Events director specialised in the tourism and leisure industries.
Born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, I moved to London in my early 30's and set up the UK's largest German restaurant chain 'Bavarian Beerhouse'.

After 15 years of Oktoberfest beer festivals it was time for a change - time to move to Spain.

East of Malaga I run the only professional events agency in the Axarquia region, planning large scale exclusive events and promoting rural Spain from Malaga to Almunecar.

I am a passionate travel blogger. Networker. Book author. Intercultural communicator with a strong background in media work, writing and connecting people.

Languages: German, English, Spanish

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 Event Agency Andalucia

Jennie Rhodes | Correspondent for SUR in English

Jennie is the Axarquía correspondent for SUR in English. As well as covering and translating news in the east of Malaga area and Costa Tropical area, she also covers areas including Brexit and EU-UK relations, the environment and writes about the villages and traditions of the east of Malaga area and the Costa Tropical. She has also written and translated for other local English-language magazines on the Costa del Sol and combines her newspaper work with teaching and examining English as a foreign language.

Uwe Scheele | Journalist / Periodista

Express Report Media: press agency for news from Andalusia in German and Spanish

Karl Smallman is professional photojournalist and web content producer/manager with 40 years experience in the newspaper publishing industry.

He started 'painting with light' on a five-edition-a-day provincial daily newspaper straight from journalism college in pre-digital days and witnessed and was often at the forefront during the introduction of 'new technology' that revolutionised the production process.

Karl worked his way through the ranks to become chief photographer of a multi award-winning newspaper group in the south Midlands region at the tender age of 23.

He has had his photography work published in all UK national newspapers and many magazines.

With the advent of digital media in the newspaper industry he made the switch to web content management and production on titles in the UK and for the last 15 years on award-winning publications in Spain.

However, photography remains his passion and he juggles his professional work with the unique position of official photographer for the town hall in the small, mountain-side pueblo blanco in which he lives – a one-hour drive inland from the Costa del Sol.

Married to Ophelia in Gibraltar in 1978, John has spent much of his life travelling on security print and minting business and visited every continent except Antarctica (only getting as close as the Falkland Islands).

Having retired several years ago, the couple moved to their house in Estepona and John became a regular writer for the EWN Media Group taking particular interest in Finance, Gibraltar and Costa del Sol Social Scene before becoming a freelance writer and journalist working from home.

Joanna Styles | Freelance writer & Journalist

Freelance writer specialised in online and offline marketing including digital content creation, copy for lead generation, content for marketing materials and social media. Specialist topics are property investment, Spain in general and Andalucia in particular, and relocation.

Also author and creator of Guide to Malaga, the go-to reference for tourist information about Malaga city. The website is also a promotional platform for businesses in Malaga offering quality services and products for tourists and residents.

In mid-2022, Joanna also created Costa del Sol Road Trips, a series of ebooks showcasing themed holidays on the Costa del Sol with particular emphasis on boutique businesses and local products.

 www.costadelsolroadtrips.com

David Tweed| Journalist

Sally Underwood | Freelance writer and web publisher

Yvonne Vidal | Freelance

Irina Viitala | Freelance

Paul Whitelock| Journalist & Blogger

Paul is a relative latecomer to writing, only starting in earnest when he retired from his previous career in education in 2005 and relocated to Spain, where he now lives in the Serranía de Ronda. He had a spell at The Olive Press in 2008-2009 and was also a regular columnist for The Iberian Times and for Olive Country Life magazine, based in Alcalá la Real, Jaén. He has also had articles published in The Sunday Times, Sur in English and the EuroWeekly News.

Now a blogger, he was a regular contributor to several websites including The Olive Press and Secret Andalucía, but now focuses on his own website, Help me Ronda. He also contributes regularly to Eye on Spain, where he writes under several aliases, covering Life in Spain, the Spanish language, Spanish Culture, How to ....?, and Travel.

He is preparing a set of books on Ronda and Montejaque, the two places where he spends most of his time.

He is also the official translator for Ronda Council's Culture and Tourism departments.

Marion Winter | Journalist / Interpreter

Ryerson University, Canada with a journalism degree and worked for magazines and newspapers as a reporter and assistant editor. In Spain did editorial  design for the media. Ran Gibraltar Bulletin newsletter  and edited daily Marbella Tribune.

At Marbella´s hospital, formed volunteer interpreter service at the Hospital Costa del Sol and radiotherapy charity, Los Claveles.