Over my journalistic years I’d interviewed countless expats about their dream homes. Out the mantras would come. “We just knew it was the one.” “It felt right.” “As soon as we saw it, that was it.”
Any capacity for critical thinking went out the window, and the love affair began. Three years ago when we stepped […]

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Spain has always been a second home to me – somewhere that I visited innumerable times during my childhood when I came to visit my mother, who has lived here for forty years.
During that time, I saw only a superficial land that seemed dedicated solely to tourism. Like so many people, I neither saw nor […]

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Altea really has come alive now, and it’s just fabulous. We have of course had wonderful weather. It’s a well-known fact that the weather is a catalyst for mood swings.
When the sun shines people’s moods improve, they have more energy, they smile, they enjoy life – I wonder why there are so many expatriates here […]

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Shopping in Spain reminds me of how things used to be in the UK. Yes, there are masses of out of town shopping centres, and yes, you will find all the major chains in the High Street, but there’s still plenty of room for the ‘little guys’, for the quirky independent establishments that somehow […]

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How I swapped the delights of serving drunken holidaymakers for putting pen to paper
Being released from the bar gave us the freedom to explore Tenerife. Having spent the last seven years with our heads inside a beer chiller, to be able to drive into the mountains, breathe in the crisp, pine-scented air and indulge in […]

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