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For any concerned parent choosing the right school is one of the biggest decisions of your kid’s lives.  Were your school days the happiest of your lives..?  Mine certainly weren’t!  But it’s what we all aspire to for our own children isn’t it, that as well as being well-educated academically, they will build fantastic memories, […]

Some of us define success in purely financial terms, but thriving expats in Spain have had to think about that definition more creatively and flexibly in recent years. When I lived and worked in London, so much seemed to depend on income and professional status – it didn’t just dictate where you lived and the

Hi everyone, my name is June Wolfe and I live in an old Farmhouse in the campo just outside the village of Villanueva Del Trabuco, about 40 minutes inland from Malaga (very cold at the moment!)  I moved to Spain with my husband Clive and 3 children in 1999, with the hope of a better

The old adage “time waits for no (wo)man” manifests itself every day!  As Christmas / Día de los Reyes Magos is finally over and we head into 2012, I hear shouts of “where did 2011 go?”  Getting older years, months, days and minutes seemingly vanish partly due to the wonderful intervention of the www. Computers,

Over Christmas I had the absolute luxury of reading two books.   Both relate with Spain and both amazing stories of strong women striving against the odds. Here they are:   Passion India by Javier Moro, this is about a Spanish girl from Malaga who is swept off her feet by an Indian Raj.  This

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

A friend of mine has organised an event called “who will you be in 5 years time?”   Sadly its not in Spain, however this got me thinking about the 100s of possibilities for the journey as well as the arrival (a goal without a plan is just a wish).   What would Costa Women

To Costa Women and beyond, I would like to share with you some information and an adapted blog post I have just written for my website. I run a small online language travel agency called www.geminicourses.com I promote the learning of Spanish and English by selling intensive Spanish courses in Spain for expats as well