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Valerie, did Spain choose you, or did you choose Spain? Six of one, half a dozen of the other.  Italy was my first love but when I was 15 we had a family holiday in Benidorm and I started to learn Spanish. I always felt the urge to come back, and spent part of what […]

Hopefully this blog post will inspire you to begin your Christmas shopping before the last minute rush. This week I focus on gifts for Him and for Her, it may even help you with your own letter to Santa.   Enjoy reading: http://bit.ly/vYYKR2   My previous post was about presents for the children and a

  I have to confess a secret, so secret I barely know it myself.   I love Alcalá.   Alcalá is like that dull, serious, stamp-collecting  boy you meet at university, the one that never gets drunk and seems indifferent to you, even though you have your share of admirers. You think he´s a bit of a weed

Hi, As I´ve been living away from home since 1998, I am now used to being well prepared for Christmas so that when I begin to travel around 22-23rd Dec I can enjoy myself and not be worrying about last minute presents or overweight luggage   My normal Christmas circuit is Granada – Malaga –

If you are thinking of updating your property to sell in 2012 or simply wish to change your surroundings to take advantage of new colours and furnishings…I can help,with an experience of 20 years in interiors and retailing furniture ..I know a good buy . With the minimum of fuss and bother and great attention

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, is that one size does not fit all, and I don’t mean clothes-wise, I mean, people-wise. We get into new relationships with certain expectations, only to be disappointed (some times.) – Why? Because ONE size doesn’t fit all. Not one person fulfills all your needs, not one child, will

Autumn is a wonderful season in Spain for fruit. We have our old favourites, beautiful Decano Pears, juicy yellow and deep purple plums, but in Andalusia in Autumn some new local fruits come onto the scene.   Do you know what to do with them?   Here´s my latest blog post, maybe you´ll try something

Many foreigners purchase property in Spain. Some live abroad full time, I am one of them and others are part time, perhaps escaping the winter months.  Whereas once the foreign areas were fairly separate from the Spanish neighbourhoods, over the last 10 year I´ve noticed that the trends have changed, the taste and budget of buyers are different. While the

As we have heard at Gabriella’s wonderful talk last Thursday, living Gratitude is so important in our day to day!   I would like to invite you to a journey of Living Gratitude with our newly launched Meditation CD, find more information at http://gratitudeart.com/gratitude-art-living-gratitude-meditation-cd.html   About the CD:… “These two life enhancing programmes have been

Dear Ali, If you are ready to SCREAM, let’s do it together, and Out-Loud! You may be thinking, “Why do I want to scream…and why is this resonating with me?”, and the answer is….”Because you want to put out into the World the true wishes that you’ve been feeling in your heart and the thoughts