You can check out the insurance cover before you book and choose one that has cover for Spain included it may or may not be the cheapest one they list but it will still be competative.

Yes. That will arrive at the same time as the infamous airport that has yet to win approval (it has it some stages not others), the infamous high speed rail link (with only vague promises of 'maybe next year the work will start') and of course the magnificent Hilton that will open on the clearly 'booming' Esuri site.

You may have knowledge that others here do not, but a toll on the bridge would not be accepted by either government. The loss in revenue they would suffer would never justify the toll. What might and could happen is putting a toll section further down the Algarve motorway before hitting Faro or the Lisbon junction, but that way there is a choice. The fundamental principals in both Portugal and Spain is that if you put a toll road there has to be a viable, free alternative - how will that happen at the bridge?

Still, what do I know? I only live here.

well, maybe we will never have another bridge into Portugal, perhaps we won't see the magnificent Hilton in CE but we will have a new IKEA very near, and this is a sure thing

Hi John & Kath,
How is everything going in CE? are you happy about living there?
kind Regards ,
marisol

Bill

you've certainly stirred up a debate about these toll booths. Where on earth do you get these daft ideas from?

Graham

Where?

You little devil you!

Not at the moment but the weather is very kind why don't you come down?

Marisol,

You know there is another bridge to be finished imminently at El Granado.

With regards to the laughable reports that Ikea were going to open in Cartaya (really - where would their clients come from??????), the over exuburant Huelva press have since reported that Ikea issued a statement saying that after assessing the area they have no plans to open anything in this area for the forseeable future.

Not even Millán's supposedly magic hand could not save that one.

Once again, another example of people (not you personally Marisol, but for the rumours in general) trying to believe something they would desperately like to be true, when the grim reality states otherwise. Business is a numbers game - and the numbers in this province just don't add up. Outside the city, Lepe is the next biggest town with 25,000 people, Almonte & Isla Cristina hovering around the 21,000 mark, Ayamonte still to break the 20,000 barrier despite the false claims of certain 'businessmen', Cartaya way back around 16,000. Even with the lure of the Algarve corridor, the numbers just don't make sense. Anyone still in doubt should look at how much Ikea agonised about the Jerez site and just have a look at their catchment area of, say, just 30km in any direction and compare to here. That alone tells its own story.

They have only just opened an Ikea at Malaga and that is mega populated compared to Ayamonte.

Has the IKEA @ Seville shut @ if not why would you have two stores within 50km of each other

well, we won't have a new ikea either
Anyway, if putting an ikea shop in Huelva means that there has to be as tumultuous as Malaga or Sevilla or Madrid...i'm glad they dont built it there

Egg Zackerly... yeah, um... 19,000 being generous and after that the figures I mentioned before, all of whom are basic village folk (even if they do live in towns) and are not inclined to buy a sofa every week so....


...and Egg Zackerly!!!! It's a bit more than 50KM, more like 120, but point taken. If the area was heavily populated in that 120 corridor then of course, it might make sense. Yet there is more population in the 30-odd km fanning out from Cadiz city than there is in the entire 120km between Ikea Seville and the rejected Huelva idea

I live in a quiet part of it, the biggest noise is the refuse truck chugging up the hill every morning. ;-))

Those buggers get everywhere!!!