The Spanish Lifestyle 2024 .... So, you are seriously thinking about, even looking forward, to moving to Spain? That’s great, because despite the sometimes highly questionable and often utterly misleading articles on the likes of Facebook et al, it’s a great life over here! But! Yes, there’s always a but, isn’t there? You do need to...
Changing times …… I constantly smile, mostly with derision, at the scare tactics and misinformation constantly fired at my mobile ‘phone, despite having a Spanish registered ‘phone contract. “Huge fines for British tourists,” is a favourite. These, when checked into, refer to urinating on the beach or on the front of bu...
The summer is upon us …… So we are barely into June, but the temperature says it is already August. Having said that, if our mobile weather forecaster is anything to go by, the middle of next week will bring a couple of days of heavy rain and somewhat stormy conditions. Of course, we desperately need that rain. There has been precious little o...
Just an ordinary day…….. When you decide to move over here to the sun and start to wonder how your life will change on a day-to-day basis, there are different ways to approach the answer. The question remains the same (Oh Lordy, here we go on a Mastermind trip – Ed), but the answer can vary greatly depending upon the way you approach it....
RETIRE TO SPAIN ……..Really? Is it an age thing? I cannot believe that we are already a third of the way through 2024 ….. when I haven’t yet got used to typing 2024 for Heaven’s sake! Anyway, I digress from what I was going to start with already. The trouble now being I’ve forgotten how I was going to start because I s...
Fallas time in Gandia! So it’s that time of year again! A good friend of ours posted on Facebook sometime ago, a little statement that I shall never forget, because it is SO Spain and definitely so Gandia. It said, “What’s going on? We haven’t had a Fiesta for a week!” It is little exaggeration; I can assure you! But as I was...
February here we come …… So, Christmas disappears into the distant past and the year really begins in earnest! What that really means is that you realise how much you ate and drank over December and that the mirror hasn’t been replaced by a fairground distortion jobby and you need to sort yourself out before the sun returns! (speak for y...
2024 - A New Start! ... So here we are then. It’s 2024 and the start of a brand-new year untouched and untainted. Where were you last year end? Where will you go this year end? What will you do in between? You have a whole year opening in front of you. So, will it be repeat last year? Or will you create the difference, make that plan a reality, actual...
Christmas 2023 ......... Good grief, it doesn’t seem five minutes since I sat at this same keyboard (I have washed the keyboard membrane since …. Twice) looking at a blank sheet of paper with the heading, “Christmas 2022, staring back at me! But here we are and what a year it has been here in the wonderful Gandia locale. From the highs o...
An RV in Spain ..... When we first moved to Spain, over two years ago now, we were accompanied by our venerable boat, Herbie. We had bought Herbie, a 32-foot Corvette back in UK about a year before we moved and had already had some fun times aboard, including a Boxing Day Party and a Birthday party for my dear Lady wife. Initially, the price of moorings her...
The End Of Summer? ...... We are all aware of the affects of Global Warming on this lump of floating rock that we call home. Whether it is because of humankind mismanagement, the natural aging of the planet, or a combination of both (my preference is for the latter), the seasons are definitely getting mixed up with extremes of temperature and of weather in...
The Social Whirl! .... Of course, living in this delightful area of Spain, means that we usually miss out on the weather extremes suffered by other areas. It generally doesn’t get as hot as the southern reaches of the Costa’s in the summer months, although you still need to use the old slap factor 50 to start with and gradually reduce the protec...
Spain on wheels! .... So, since our last update, many things have changed in this household. When we came over to Spain, we brought our venerable boat with us, thinking that it would be great to be able to use it much more than we did in the UK, with much more sunshine available to enjoy; Cocktails on the sundeck and all that! What we hadn’t fac...
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain! ....... No, it doesn’t. Right now, it’s dumping everything in the Gandia region and according to the weather forecast on my mobile ‘phone, it’s going to be continuing to do so for the next two weeks! In fact right now on the hill behind Real de Gandia, the downpour is reminiscent of t...
With A Spring in One’s Step! “The spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is!” (Get on with it – Ed) Yes, well as I was saying before being so rudely interrupted, such thoughts come to one’s mind at this time of the year. But I should explain. (Oh Lord, must you? – Ed) For those of you unfortunate...
