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, 30 July 2008

Hot Hot Hot in España

Well we've just returned to the UK after two  weeks in Spain and as expected it was really HOT.

Went to Guardamar to watch the Moors and Christians parades and had a good time but the weather was rather too hot for us - we like to potter around during the daytime but far too hot for that ! So it was lazy afternoons and late nights with too much beer drunk !

Spain is supposed to be in economic crisis - less foreign holiday makers  - and locals unwilling to spend their own money whilst on their holidays. The town had a large number of tourists but I think that there are reduced numbers compared to when I was last in Guardamar  at this time of the year - that being 5 years ago.

Still plenty of flats for sale and it is evident that the prices are falling rapidly .. 

We'll have to wait a see what happens with the economy over the next few years and hope for an improvement - as with the UK prices are rising fast especially for foodstuffs. 

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