General Chat

JBA I certainly agree with you there, predators and scrounges !!

Joy BA

Just seen your response ....thank you .....my house has been listed for awhile ... With. Spanish agent ...I speak Spanish ...so hopefully will be ok ....


but you never know ..........

Only just seen this. Hi Uzzi. We do love Puerto although now oh is 75 and me 73, the hills are beginning to get a bit much. Lovely people though, very friendly and, we were in Lanzarote in June and I think the meals in restaurants were more expensive there. Restaurants and shops seem to be suffering here, still quite a few English and German tourists but not so many Spanish as there used to be.

Only been to Spain mainland once and that was to Nerja we liked the region a lot.

We have a Corte Inglis so I must be important. When ever I have been in there there are far more staff than customers. We also have a Core Inglis outlet shop, not a lot cheaper on most things.

Wow Wisechild you have 3 supermarkets !!!! Menorca is sounding better :-D We do have a Cort Ingles in Cartagena but I have never braved their doors. Not sure that my brain or hubby´s wallet could cope with it.

LOL @Joy but you are right about preditors do watch for single females putting foreign property on the market.

That´s only a rumour put about by the Menorquines to make themselves feel important.
In fairness we do have 3 supermarkets, but there´s no "Cort Ingles" so there can´t be anyone of importance here. Only claim to fame is that the King of Spain used to call to Fornells for lobster stew occasionally. Don´t think his health is up to it now!!

be very careful putting that your propertys for sale Renes
theres some very sad preditors out there

who may try to take an intrest
i would hate you be taken advantage of :-(

LOL Wisechild OH says that Menorca would be too large for him as it has people living there. !!

Uzzie, you´re quite right. It´s very small.
When I first moved here I said I thought I would probably have exhausted all it´s possibilities within about 5 years.
I´ve been here for 8 years now & although I love the place to bits & know it like the back of my hand, the winters are very dreary. So many friends have moved away that there are hardly any left. Have been trying to persuade OH to move to the mainland (where he comes from) where there would be a bit more life, but he wants to stay here. Don´t know why. He hasn´t had a job for 5 years & is very depressed about it.
Having said all that, I do love Menorca. It sort of gets under your skin.
If your OH wants a rock in the middle of the ocean, I can recommend Menorca. ;-)

Wendy say Hi to Ann from me. I loved Puerto de la Cruz when I visited the Island, actually I loved the whole Island and wanted to move there. There used to be a bar shaped like a boat, it was up for sale when I came over and I wanted to buy it.

Mary yes we had the rain also but not as bad as it sounds like you did. Luckily we have only had it at night so the mornings have been fresh. I must get it into my head that you live in Oliva and not Denia.

Wisechild never been to Menorca but have been told it´s beautiful, I will own up it´s too small for me but would suit OH. Mind a rock in ocean would suit OH.

As my board name says I live in Tenerife in Puerto de la Cruz in the north of the island. Like Wisechild in Menorca we too are a bit behind the times but gradually catching up. We are governed by Spain so anything of importance has to go through Madrid which seems to take forever. I love living here but would not like to live in the hotter, drier south of the island. If anyone is ever in or near Puerto I would love to meet up.

AnninGlos and her OH arrived yesterday for four weeks, we had a lovely meal together and it was good to catch up.

Wendy

I live in Oliva Costa Blanca - and after yesterday think I will get an arck - blimmey did it rain
Still dry this morning - hope it stays like it so I can dry out !!!

Hope everyone else in Spain is ok

Love Mary xx

It has been a worry for me,but when I was a carer for my husband and almost never able to go out,I had to forget about it.

We let it to a friends son very cheaply,but he then had a bad accident and couldn't work,so we let him have it rent free.

This didn't bother me as I thought that at least it was kept aired and lived in.
About a month ago,he called to say he hadn't lived in it for over a year.I was amazed that his parents hadn't told me....so now my son who lives in Guernsey and they are expecting a baby any minute,is helping me .

We will have to go out there as I do know that Spanish law is different from ours as this is the 2nd house we have had in Spain.

I really don't want to go as it will be hard without OH and I don't know what we will find.

We all have our problems and believe me I have had other things to sort over here.
Will get there eventually and they are all material not life threatening,but need sorting soon.

Anyone out there live in Menorca like I do.
Would love to make contact.
Menorca is a beautiful island, but about 40 years behind the rest of Spain, so can be very frustrating at times as everything has to be dealt with either in Palma or Barcelona, so we tend to feel a bit isolated.

Gracias Uzzi ...

abracitos y besitos

Rene I will give Spain a hug for you.

It is up for sale now .....

I could never live there again ..although I love Spain. ..and do not want to lose my language ..and my "Andalusian" dialect ..and I love my village ..

But what is the answer ........

I am in Norfolk .... and live quite remotely ..and am content ....

Give Spain a hug fom me Uzzi .....

Brenda sorry to hear that, Sort the house out soon because Spain laws are different to UK
Renes I am glad to hear you kept your place out here.

Brenda

Sorry to hear that ......

It s a longtime to leave a house .

.has anyone else been there more recently

I lived in Los Barrios near Algeciras...still have a house there but not been for a few years as OH was housebound here and he died 2 years ago...will probably go over with son later in year to sort and really have to sell up.