Meet Marléne Rose Shaw, therapist and self-help author. Marléne helps people gain confidence and learn how to be more assertive, especially in relationships with partners, friends and family. She works with individual clients and with couples. Marléne where did your personal story start and your journey to Spain? I was brought up in the UK but […]
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We are in this together and can best get through it together. Following the Government’s decree on Saturday 14th March as described in this report, life in Spain has changed and over the coming year over half of us may experience the dry cough, sore throat and tiredness symptoms of Covid 19. The government prescription is ‘self isolation’
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15 March 2020 The FCO has updated its Travel Advice to advise against all but essential travel to Spain, following the restrictions put in place by the Spanish government in response to the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19). For more information visit (https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain). On 14 March, the Spanish government introduced a State of Emergency,
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Meet Lauren Cirkot – formerly from America but now living in Valencia, Lauren believes in the power of always finding adventure and in the video shares a lovely challenge she used to build up her courage. Whilst Lauren suffers from an illness she has still managed to travel to 26 different countries and, as this year
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The second in our ‘Meet the Speakers’ series we will introduce the next three Speakers for our 8th International Women’s Day Conference, taking place on 12 March and workshops during the morning of 13 March. Find out more about the Conference, how to enjoy time working ON your business and not just IN your business and the networking opportunities available at
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Brexit: where we are now As you will know, the UK left the EU last Friday at 23:00 (CET), so it seems like the right time to send you an update on what this means for UK nationals living in Spain. The Withdrawal Agreement which sets out how the UK leaves the EU has been
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In the first of our ‘Meet the Speakers’ Series we will meet the first three of Speakers for our 8th International Women’s Day Conference, taking place on 12 March. Find out more about the Conference, meet all the speakers and book your place here 1230.co.uk/spain-2020 The Conference has been arranged for the 6th year running in association with
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Happy 2020, a big new year with 366 days to start a new decade and celebrate the 10th anniversary year of Costa Women. Before we begin and rush headlong into the roaring 20s, celebrate with me our 2019 highlights, achievements and special moments including our membership now reaching 8,500 Costa Women made up of 127
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Tricia Audette is passionate about education and theatre and has woven the two together in her own special brand of ‘learning through comedy’. As well as having a love of butterflies she has also a connection to Albert Einstein. Let’s hear more from this Canadian now living in Madrid! Let’s start with your life
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Meet Fionnula Fitzsimons, one of our Alicante based members who founded the Darkness into Light Charity in Spain in 2018 in memory of her brother. The charity provides an opportunity for people to connect with their local community and to show their support for those who have been bereaved by suicide and to continue to raise awareness in the global fight against
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