Working from home in Spain - Lifebushido

Lifebushido is building a global network of people working part-time from home with flexible hours using their unique talents.

Lifebushido started in 2006 and in early 2010 has over 60 people working with Lifebushido and over 60 clients. We are growing steadily.


Lifebushido current ventures include Best Agent Business, Orange Passion, Goalbushido, Bookbushido, Lessonsbushido, and Billion Dollar Agent. We operate globally.

We are also involved with other ventures and projects such as YRUHRN launched in September 2006 and involving hundreds of people around the world in a creative effort to write and publish a book answering the question: "Why Am I Here - Right Now?"
See www.yruhrn.com.

Lifebushido was started in January 2006 by Steve Kantor after a one-year sabbatical.

Contact for anything other than jobs: aboutus@lifebushido.com

Lifebushido LLC
7706 Oldchester Road
Bethesda, MD 20817

Fax: 240-751-4247

Fallout from Japan tsunami

We have been feeling the fallout from the Japanese disasters in Estepona - here is a photo I took on the beach on Monday. Horizontal rain, sheet lightning and beaches closed off, but somehow very warm weather.

Projectiles from Space Exhibition

Estepona's Palaeontology Museum presents an exhibition entitled "Projectiles from Space - Our world under bombardment". The exhibition includes genuine samples of meteorites and asteroids recovered from impact sites along with some 20 information panels in English and Spanish put together by Dr. Robert Lilljevquist, who is on hand to tell you all about the exhibits in English or Spanish.

The exhibition runs until 1 June and is open from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm and 6pm.

Ask your doctor about meat...

Selwo Aventura - a big waste of time and money

We went to Selwo - what an awful place - €3 to park and then a whopping 24.50€ to get in! The place is advertised as a zoo experience but the animals are secondary to the muddy old hills and rope bridges which incidentally if like me you don't want to use, you are forced to find a way through the wilderness alone. No access for disabled people and terrible signs - in fact, the map doesn't even tell you which animals are where so you end up having to chase around trying to find out where you are and what you haven't seen. You can't take in food or drink and yet we staggered starving for an hour as the lower restaurant was closed leaving us no option but to go for a 5€ baguette with bland filling, or wait until we reached the "highlight" of the top restaurant. The jeep ride was not pleasant with no accounting for safety - no safety barriers on very steep roads with sheer drops - and the lions and bears, the animals which in our opinion should be the show stoppers were down low in valleys which only one side - not our side - of the jeep can see. The restaurant at the top of the hill does not cater for vegetarians (when we went everything had meat in it) at all and charge a Euro for a bread roll and 9 or 10€ a tiny plate for everything else. The bread was also stale. Then we tried to find a drink - 2.80€ for a bottle. This is considering the 24.50 we paid to get in.
The views are spoilt by terrible building sites and construction and are nothing special.
Icing on the cake was trying to drive out only to find the evidence of paid parking is not even monitored - get out and find the button for the gate yourself! 1 out of 10 for the red panda, everything else built to rip you off. Boo!

VIPs Puerto Banus

Today I took my family to VIPs restaurant in Puerto Banus, just on the beach front near the port. They do a menu del dia for 10,95 which includes a drink and dessert. The staff are very pleasant and professional and the food is not too way out there Spanish, so I could take my parents-in law there who had never been to Spain and aren´t so used to Spanish food yet.

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Tabernas

I went to Tabernas last weekend, which is a three hour drive on the A7 to Almeria through the Sierra Nevada mountains, which incidentally are still completely snowy!

Tabernas is a desert used in many many films, especially spaghetti westerns from the 50´s.

There are three film studios including Oasys Park which also boasts a zoo. You can watch a wild west show with cancan dancers and shoot em ups at various times of the day, included in the 19 euro price ticket. There are some brilliant views and the animals are really close, highlights being the lions and tigers which you can view up close behind glass.

However, we saw several animals with disorders such as the depressed bears, insane repetitive emu and a hyena with some kind of repetitive disorder swinging about behind tiny closed doors. The worst was the white tiger. Hailed as the newest addition, the tiger is crippled with a hunchback and is clearly completely depressed, trapped in a pit that gets no sun on its own with no companion. When we saw him he was shivering, unable to move properly balanced on a rock. While I understand the need for breeding programs, the white tiger as a species is regarded as a fake and unnatural creature doomed to be something of an inbred, usually with behavioural issues. This is probably why he is isolated from the otehr tigers, who look healthy and as happy as any captive tiger can be.

The park is amazing however and well worth the entrance fee, with stunning views over the canyons and mountains.

The cinema museum is small but a must for movie buffs, with a selection of huge cine cameras and posters of all the films made there, the most famous names being Yul Brynner, Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.

Tabernas is famous for its tapas masters, and you can get some amazing dishes for less than a Euro. Potatoes are the speciality. I would recommend you try Hotel Puente´s bar and ask for Patatas con Alioli.

We stayed at a bijou hotel behind the main street called Casa Jardin Del Desierto, which we loved so much we stayed for an extra night. They really have a beautiful place with each room dressed in a different flower theme, at only 50 Euros a night including breakfast.

In the Summer they have a pool open onsite, as does the Oasys Park, included in the price. There is also a small bullring which is usually open on Sundays but as it wasn´t the season we just had a look from afar.

The desert is amazing and if you drive out a few miles it is well worth a visit with a good camera.