Es siempre bueno volver en casa!
And what a week that was! First of all, a big thank you goes to my friend and web feature editor Alan Lambert at the Dorset Echo offices on the Granby Estate for the personal tour he gave me during my...
View Article¡Aún jubilados necesitan para trabajar a veces, pero sólo por elección!
Someone asked us on our recent visit to Blighty how we were enjoying our early retirement, whereby I replied, ‘don’t know, too busy!!’
View Article!Algunas cosas son enviados a tratarnos, aun el tiempo puede devolver aqui!
Well, first off apologies for last weeks late feature entry, I hope no one was too upset? But hey, these things are sent to try us, and it wasn’t my fault, honest! It was actually an act of the...
View ArticleThat’s it, time to move further south!
A week of rain and I’m not a happy bunny, though everyone says I’m ungrateful as we need the rain to rejuvenate the land and refill the reservoirs after the extremely long hot summer we have just had....
View ArticlePara que no olvidamos!
This morning saw us pick the first orange of winter off one of our trees. Although we only have a few fruit bushes, it usually produces a small harvest which will last until the spring's second crop....
View ArticleEs el Lunes por la mañana, yo me desayuno en la terraza y el sol brill, qué
How time flies when you’re enjoying yourself, or so the saying goes. The last four or five weeks have been a blur of work and getting the jobs done for the winter, or at least the more temperate part...
View Article¡Sólo cuatro semanas y Papá Noel estarán aquí con todos mis juguetes!
'What's that you say? There's Hurriphoons and Tornacains causing havoc all along the Spanish Coast!!!'
View Article¡Si usted mira hacia atrás con demasiada frecuencia, usted no jamás puede...
What a strange time of the year it appears to be! We’re experiencing one of the earliest cold spells we’ve had here in Andalucia, with ‘nieve’ (snow) all over the Sierra’s right behind us.
View ArticleLooking to the future
'Tis the season to be jolly, ooohhh, don’t know about that! Seems to me that every channel on the one eyed goggle box shows little but despair and despondency for Christmas. Never mind, only 374 days...
View ArticleSigning out in the sun
Happy New Year to you one and all, and did anyone make a New Year resolution they broke the next day? Well I did! Needless to say that I promised myself a physical workout first thing followed by a...
View ArticleBienvenidos
To say a lot has happened in a very short period of time would be an understatement, in fact it has been a roller coaster ride from start to finish.
View ArticleHola mi amigos
There's a certain image or picture that springs to mind at the thought of living in your own retreat on foreign shores far away from everything that's normal, routine or safe.
View ArticleBien dia
It was day four and our new found and only familiar face Mark had shown us around a dozen properties ranging from small poky terraced village houses to great expanses of land encompassing idyllic...
View ArticleBueno!
Could it be conceivably possible that there is a system as stressful, drawn out and costly as the act of purchasing a property in England? Well I thought not until going back to the estate agents...
View ArticleHola otra vez lectores
In my short yet broad time mixing with the British ex pats residing in Andalucia, I have deduced that there are a number a reasons why people seek to take the step, as I did, into the unknown of...
View ArticleQue tal mis amigos?
Easter has come and gone but what a spectacle for those who have never seen how the Spanish observe Semana Santa (Saints Week).
View ArticleLos saludos de Espana soleada!
On moving to Spain we made a conscious decision that we would do our best to embrace the culture and explore its generic charms.
View ArticleEy, que pasa?
While I read about the spring cold snap gripping Britain yet again with April snows afalling, here, the Southern Costa's impending summer season is already in full swing with the beaches starting to...
View ArticleOtro hermoso dia en el Mediterráneo!
Talk about the unstable housing market? Well, I'm undecided and confused at the moment. Is it a good time to buy or sell? I know the Spanish market has slowed down dramatically since we first purchased...
View ArticleTiempo calor, Sangria frio!
Remember Sundays back in the sixties? I remember as a kid in Liverpool that Sundays were synonymous with a long lie in, boys brigade bands, trips out over the river to New Brighton, watching the only...
View Article?Ha comprendido usted estos saludos hasta ahora?
After all the furore of the anti and pro hunt lobbyists back in England last year, it would appear that that particular argument, though partially sorted by Parliament, still rages on in the...
View ArticlePheeww! Qué calor hace hoy! Bonito.
There are a number of things that you subconsciously miss when moving to a foreign land, and although we do our best to integrate at a local level, some things can't be replaced, something for example...
View ArticleYo te recomiendo e vacaciones en España!
Well, that's May out the way and what a wet one! Well, sort of. It's been raining off and on for nearly the whole month interspersed by half days of boiling humid sunshine, though the late bout of...
View Article¡Ha estado lloviendo gatos y perros!
Now is the summer of our blissful content!' (Richard the III, Not!) May is almost at an end with the extended season of sun, sea, sand and sangria well upon us.
View ArticleEl Lunes por la mañana y la vida es una playa!
If there's one thing we all appear to have in common at the moment, it's the fuel price crisis which is affecting everyone Europe-wide. Even here the price at the pumps has all of a sudden gone through...
View ArticleAahh, ahora mi cena era estupendo!
Healthy mind healthy body don't they say? Well, the diet can certainly be healthier here but indulgence of such rich and plentiful delights can also be your downfall, so it's no good thinking all this...
View ArticleEl fin de semana comienza siempre que usted lo desee a!
Are people funny about their football or what? I've just come home after enjoying a few beers at the local Venta where a Euro 2008 football match involving Spain and someone else, (shows how much I...
View ArticleLa felicidad tiene a su mejor amigo con usted donde quiera usted es!
As well as the physical aspect of two-wheel transportation, namely the bicycle, nothing can compare to that of the love of perambulating the open road on a motorbike!
View ArticleEl césped es sólo más verde si usted se deshace de las hierbas!
Is it me, or has the world gone mad!!!? Stories of corruption and mismanagement in the Government are reported on daily, nothing is done.
View ArticleDónde Jamás yo coloca el sombrero, eso es su hogar!
Lets not take on so this week, I think I did enough complaining about moaners and groaners and the negative state of the world in general last week, lets get back to the positive.
View ArticleNo puede ser el paraíso, pero preferible que donde fuimos!
At around 22.30 last night, in a clear sky that hadn't seen a cloud in nearly four weeks, an overly bright star went hurtling over head from the South West to the North East. It was very distinctive...
View ArticleLos campsites de buenos días, esperan que todo sea bien con usted e con su mondo
Now what's all this rubbish about rubbish? Am I going mad or did I read somewhere that a number of councils in England are distributing up to five different refuse bins to each household and demanding...
View ArticleUsted puede pasar mucha crema para el sol en un ocho verano de mes!
'Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun' or so the song goes, but you have to be more than a little mad or just English to go out in this heat!
View ArticleDoce mesas hacia abajo, el descanso de nuestro vive para ir!
It's a strange coincidence that today, the 6th August, is to the day twelve months ago that we set off for a country anew and that today I write the final chapter pertaining to the build up and leaving...
View ArticleEl césped es sólo másverde en el otro lado si usted se arranca las hierbas!
'Taking the moral high ground' is an expression so easily said and with a multitude of meanings. I learnt a long time ago to judge others only by how you yourself would want to be judged.
View ArticleCuándo en Roma ... Haga cualquier deseal!
Ah, the joys and benefits of a long hot dry summer! It's day eighty of continuous sunshine and heat with no let up in sight. Bliss you say? Well, for some like me it's a welcome by product of living in...
View ArticleUn Ingleses son es casa su castillo, dondequiera son!
Rain, gales, flooding, aahh, the typical British summer, who could live without or ever miss it? Well ME for a start! Don't know about you, but I love the idea of planning a BBQ four weeks in advance...
View ArticleUna cosa usted puede ser cierto de, los violinistas verde viene finalmente a...
There's a choice you make when you move to somewhere like Spain with regard to habitation. The myriad of relocation programmes show properties on the coast, inland townships and the campo.
View ArticleVivir en España no es mejor ni peor qui viviendo en inglaterra, es justo...
As the heading implies, living in Spain is no better or worse than living in England, it's just different, but to us it's that difference that counts!
View ArticleLa precipitación, ahora hay una cosa rara!
Well, it had to end, one hundred and seventeen days without rain was brought to a close with one almighty crash as a tremendous storm hit Coin at 3AM last Wednesday morning bringing with it the first...
View ArticleTodavia esta lloviendo! El tiempo de volar aún más al sur por el invierno!
The final habitational observations is that of the rose tinted glass, king of all you can survey, lord of the manor as far as the eye can see, Campo Finca!
View ArticleSólo ochenta más días de compras a Navidades!
Yet another local bank holiday Fiesta looms, this time it's for one of the largest travelling animal circus still in existence. But I know what some will say? Oh, those poor animals, how could you go...
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