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Well it’s Friday! Where has the week gone? Actually… scrap that… where has the year gone? It’s May already!! Ooh hang on… where have the last 4 decades gone!? I’m in my 40s now… yet I still remember, clear as day, sitting in a classroom aged ten… thinking how weird it would be to be […]

Energy Performance Certificates Become Obligatory in Spain Marbella, Spain–The Spanish government has finally published the Royal Decree relating to a new legislation which will make it obligatory for all properties being rented or sold after the 1st of June to have “energy performance certificates”. The new decree which was published on the 5th of April

Now that the dust has settled and Cyprus has raided their banks, the big question is what next?, or more specifically I should say who is next? In order to understand the economics behind what has gone on in Cyprus, we must first understand the concept of Debt vs GDP ratio. Here is an excerpt

I spent one lunch hour last week (just in case my boss reads this) searching for an on-line CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course as my existing teaching qualification (Cert Ed) is not recognised for teaching in Spain. An on-line course course is one option for me, as I work such long hours and

You Voted and We Won! Back in December I shared a competition Costa Women had entered into.  We were up against 40 international Social Clubs for expats.  This week I heard that Costa Women won!!   Thanks to you for voting and also the comments made. More information here:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/9887564/Best-of-British-competition-the-2012-winners.html       You said:-

Well no we don’t, but clearly for a successful life in Spain we really need to conquer the language and have set ourselves a target for learning Spanish before we leave to start our new life there. I am however very proud of my longest Spanish sentence which was a large(ish) list of drinks ordered at Bar Ortega in Comares!

We’re on the point of spending upwards of 2000€ to tweak 10 year old son’s teeth back into shape. Don’t ask me why he’s missing a tooth – totally missing, you understand, nothing to do with falling over or anything. Strangely daughter also had a tooth missing, but that probably WAS to do with falling over – off

We all have dreams and goals to which we aspire, but often, after the initiation into a new way of living and being, we soon find ourselves retreating to our comfort zones, and caught up in old patterns. This is because making a goal successful is an art in transformation that must be properly learnt

One of my radio shows was about the topic of life dreams – those dreams that you have about how you would like something (whatever) to be in your life at some point, and about not letting others take your dream from you, and not allowing yourself to reject your own thoughts before they even

Number 13 may be unlucky for some, but it’s fortuitous for the Costa del Sol.   Starting a year which can only get better, reports of rich Russians shopping for luxury products and property were a great advert for Marbella on Spain’s national Informativos Telecinco news, 13/1/13 – ‘La Costa del Sol a la caza