About Nick Snelling
Author – Journalist – Realtor
Nick Snelling is a journalist and author of six books, three of which focus on Spain. He lives permanently in Spain with his family and combines his writing career with running Casalasafor Consultancies, a real estate agency specialising in properties around Gandia.
Of his six books, four are non-fiction. These include How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely! and The Laptop Entrepreneur. He has also written the accompanying text for several books by one of the world’s leading documentary photographers, Jurgen Schadeberg.
Nick’s investigative journalism has explored a wide range of complex and often controversial subjects related to Spain. His work has examined corruption, the economy, divorce and domestic violence, drug culture, the Spanish property crash, immigration, and the country’s culture of brothel use. He has also written an in-depth profile of a high-class call girl.
He has been a columnist for A Place in the Sun magazine and has appeared as an expert contributor on programmes for the BBC (Radio 4 and BBC One), ITV, and Channel 4, including A Place in the Sun.
Nick has also featured on numerous episodes of House Hunters International for US television, discussing Spain and Spanish property. His media work extends to co-presenting a television programme for a Spanish TV channel, providing voice-over narration for documentaries, and working as a fixer for a major television production company.
In addition to his journalistic work, Nick is involved in international humanitarian missions and has worked in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Jordan/Gaza.
The Borgias, either Caesar or nothing! Wrapped in a carpet, the horribly bloated and badly decomposing body of Pope Alexander VI was pummelled and pushed unceremoniously into a hastily made and too small coffin. No priests attended his burial nor were there wax tapers, lights, solemn masses or chanting monks. It was August 1503 at the Vatican and the Spanish Borgia’s iron grip on power was unravelling fast. With Alexandar VI dead, the Borgias had, in all senses of the word, lost their ‘Godfather’, Back in the Vatican, Alexander VI’s private chambers had already been pillaged, so that all that remained were a few hangings and cushions. Meanwhile, the Pope’s son, the ruthless and terrifying Cesare Borgia, was desperately trying…
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The Big Issue – Immigration in Spain BY NICK SNELLING Between 1998 and 2007 Spain’s population rose by an astonishing 14%. Furthermore, immigrants, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE), now account for 9.9% of the population as of January 2007. More worrying for the Spanish is the sheer speed in which mass immigration has occurred. In 2000 there were 900,000 registered foreigners in Spain, but by 2007 this had risen to 4.4 million – a threefold increase that places Spain second only to the US in the world league for net immigration. Of course, Spanish government figures on immigration are very conservative, as they are based only upon properly registered foreigners. Accordingly, they do not take into account…
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On the rocks, divorce in Spain and domestic violence BY NICK SNELLING Spain now has one of the highest rates of divorce in Europe with 1 in 2.3 marriages ending in divorce. This equates to a marital break-up every 3.7 minutes. To make matters worse, Spain has a shocking domestic violence problem, which yet again came to a head when four women were killed by their partners on ‘Black Tuesday’ (26th February 2008). This brought to 17, the number of women murdered by their partners by the end of February 2008 setting that year firmly on target to exceed the horrors of previous years. Clearly, seismic changes are dangerously vibrating through Spanish society. In fact, it is not surprising that…
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Sex in Spain and the confessions of a call girl BY NICK SNELLING “Madre mia!” exclaims Michelle, roaring with laughter, “I have seen just about everything!” We are in a small anteroom within the Majestic brothel in Valencia city and I have just asked Michelle to tell me about her craziest experience. She sits in front of me dressed in a decorative bikini top and tiny, denim shorts that emphasise her mind boggling figure. I am having difficulty concentrating and I am fast wondering who is interviewing who. Meanwhile, my old friend and back-up translator, Alberto, is clearly transfixed by Michelle’s super-enhanced cleavage. Clearly, investigating the top end of prostitution in Spain is more challenging than I had thought. There…
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