OPINION: Why Madrid has rewarded the anti-lockdown right-wing leader Isabel Ayuso
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A group stands in the doorway of a just-opened sushi restaurant in downtown Malasaña chatting loudly while they smoke cigarettes, their masks resting on their chins, as they wait for space to open up within.
In the plaza outside, a waiter frantically clears a table to seat a young French couple who are already perusing the menu via an app on their mobile phones.
Further up the street on Calle Espiritu Santo, traffic has been diverted so that bars can place tables on the cobbles to cater for the crowds of Madrileños meeting their friends for an aperitivo in the warm spring sunshine.
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THE Costa del Sol has its very own Greta Thunberg. Fiona Govan chats to a teenage environmentalist from Mijas who is encouraging locals to help her rid the seas of plastic pollution.
At only 17-years-old, schoolgirl Nikki Wegloop is already president of a charitable foundation and is convinced that she has the power to save the world, or at least clean up her corner of it.
“It’s extraordinary how much you can achieve with a group of volunteers in just a few hours,” she tells the Olive Press by phone as she rides the school bus home to Mijas Costa.
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THE Olive Press has a new centre forward.
Seasoned journalist Fiona Govan joins the group as our new Digital Editor in, fittingly, International Women’s week.
Based in Madrid, she spent eight years as the Telegraph’s Madrid Correspondent before becoming editor at the popular website The Local Spain.
The 46-year-old has as good a grasp on the machinations of Moncloa as the trends of tourism. And she has lived and breathed Brexit for the last four years and knows every corner of this lovely peninsula.
“But I still find plenty of stunning new sites and landscapes to amaze me every year,” she reveals. “A recent walk into the Ronda gorge was one of those moments.”