The story of our adventure in Spain



In October 2002 we purchased a holiday flat in Guardamar on Spain's Costa Blanca - not far from Alicante and Torrevieja and we try to spend a good part of the year in Spain.

This blog hopefully will contain our thoughts and impressions of Spain - the good and the bad and lots and lots of photographs of not only Guardamar but the rest of Spain as we eventually get to explore it.

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Wednesday 23 March 2016

Madrid 2009

A few photos from our visit to Madrid in 2009













Sunday 20 March 2016

Guardamar

A view of the marina - photo taken late October 2015






Lovely blue sky and sea.

Friday 18 March 2016

Champions League



Well done Spain - three teams progress to the quarter finals of the Champions League

Real Madrid  v  Wolfsburg

Barcelona  v  Atletico Madrid

First legs to be played April 5/6 and return legs April 12/13

So Spain will have at least one team in the semi - finals !!


Thursday 10 March 2016

Real Madrid progress ..


More success in the Champions League - last night saw Real Madrid beat Roma 2-0 and progress to the next round.

With goals from C Ronaldo and J Rodriguez in the 64th and 68th minutes.

The aggregate score was 4-0 over two games

The next round is likely to be much harder when it is assumed that they will meet a far stronger team than Roma.

Sunday 14 February 2016

Valencia win !!!



At last Valencia have won in La Liga under their new manager the ex Manchester United player Gary Neville.

After 10 La Liga games this is the first win for Gary.

A 2-1 win against struggling Espanyol with goals from ex Manchester City player Negredo and on loan from Real Madrid winger Cheryshev.

The team and Gary have a lot more work to do to improve on their position in La Liga which is 11th.

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Monday 8 February 2016

Guardamar - Quiet Sunday morning



Not many people about in the town centre on a quiet Sunday morning..





Wednesday 27 January 2016


These flowers added some extra colour to the balcony last year - now a forgotten memory. Faded and gone...






Sunday 24 January 2016

Guardamar Marina




I've not loaded photographs to this blog for sometime. However I have at last uploaded my camera to the computer and now have collection from April/May 2015

Here we have the marina at Guardamar