I think the weather will always be a draw to Spain. Here, summer is over. The weather is still crap, grey and wet. In all we had one day when the sun shone uninterrupted all day. That makes it even worse than last year, when there were three such days.

The wheat is rotting in the fields, my tomatoes are rotting, as are my geraniums, and half the rose blooms are rotting in the bud.

You can take this climate and shove it.

Its a mix of good and bad here bil. Slight cloud cover is keeping the afternoon to around 30, welcome breeze means no need to use air con and the nights are getting cool air at 20 or below to refresh the house each night. However the grass is suffering, some of the cactii are just burned to a crisp, yet others are flowering like mad. The reservoirs are lower than I have ever seen them before and sometime in the next month or two we should get some rain.

Please make it before or after 1st Oct to 23rd Oct.

Quite likely to get some rain by then. Every year is different though.

Why in god's name bother wit grass??

there are now - 5 years ago it was different

we actually pay less now in rent than we did 5 years ago - and the owner was so keen for a long term rent I was able to negotiate when it came to the deposit & community charge

your better renting for the first 12 months or so.to see if it is realy the area you want to stay in permanent.plus you can always get off if any thing comes up.

absolutely

we nearly bought the second place we rented - lovely villa - not a bad price

then dh got fed up being a taxi service, and come September the place was freezing - it was just on the wrong side of the hill - no sun from September til May, and it seemed like it was permanently in a cloud

we'd drive down to the town in jeans & jumpers & everyone down there would be in t shirts & shorts - incredible the difference a 10 min drive made!

by the end of December we were all so ill from the damp - even though the place was heated (the amount of gas we were getting through is another story) - that we forfeited our deposit & moved back into the town

Oi! That's my line.

To anybody interested in moving to the Costa Blanca North, you can see from the map that Javea beaches faces south and Denia's face north. Apparently this is why property is more expensive on the "right" side of the Montgo, which is the mountain that separates the two.

PMSL!!!

but we were actually in Javea - just on the north facing side of the Cabo La Nao

so glad we didn't buy it though

Yes I knew you were in Javea, I was just being ironic.

I think it is fair to say though, anything too close to a mountain is going to be damp and dark in the winter. Too many are seduced by fantastic views in summer and forget to take this into the equation.

or buy on a gated urb like I used to be in - quiet in winter but a nightmare - as far as they're concerned - in summer


all those awful, noisy spanish people that come for their hols, you know

I'm looking forward to my 'monthly' week in Javea next week. All the Brits and the Spanish will have left and I can have the pool to myself. You can tell I'm a sociable soul!

the brits never leave

Luckily in my Urbanisation most the properties are owned by Spanish who only come out in the summer and weekends. The few owned by Brits are mostly quiet outside School holiday times.