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Anywhere inland suffers greater temperature extremes, north or south.
Oceans tend to moderate things quite a bit.

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True. When we lived mins from the beach on level ground it was the warmest house we had in Spain. Have friends who live on a hillside close to Ronda and it can be chilly on their terrace in summer. If they put out pot plants they either wither and die or the wind strips the leaves of.

Chilly here today, seems like a wonderful summers day in the conservatory but it's 7C outside:eek:...was 18C two days ago!

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I believe we're a lot further north than you, but it's still in the 20's in the day and teens at night here. Wouldn't expect temps like 7 (at night) until Feb., but we are surrounded by a sea with surface temps of about 22c.

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Just saw some beautiful Christmas Card-like snow scene photos from my neighbouring villages in the N.E on todays UK National news. Brrrrr.
Quite a covering already.

Only just got away in time, It feels like the coldest spot on the planet, back there, once Winter sets in.

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Yes, and the difference can be marked even if the geographical distance is small. We stayed overnight at a hotel in Nerja this July, and it was noticeably cooler and fresher than where I live, although we are less than 5km inland. It's a couple of degrees warmer on the coast in winter, as well.

We have the sun back today after 2 days of heavy rain, it was 25C in town when I was out shopping and I had to take my lightweight cardigan off when I got back in the house as I was too warm. The forecast shows a cold night tonight, though, so the heater may yet need to go on! Only for one night, after that night time temperatures are back up to 16 or thereabouts.

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I would have to have heating on at nightime 16C:D Also it will probably feel like 14C inside a Spanish house.

Have to smile when I see those place in the sun type programmes and they come out with comments such as:

Would we ever need to use that fireplace?
No space for dining table but we would eat outside all the time.
It will be nice to be able to swim all year...thre's more:rofl::rofl:

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It's still 22C inside mine.

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I think paris hilton expalined htings in Spain very well. And lets face it, if some one tells you all the positives and you dont find them yourself when you arrive, what will you do???? You need to know everything and this thread pretty much covers everything. You can now make an informed decision!!

The one thing I'll say is that Spain is lovely, but I'm so glad we didnt sell our UK house and only rented. Cos my husbands idea of relocating his business to Spain didnt/couldnt happen and luckily we had somewhere to move back to - cos yes, we're now back in the UK. I often wonder what on earth we'd have done if our UK house had sold and we'd bought in Spain as we'd initially planned

Jo xxxx

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But Lynn, it was you who posted after that night time temperatures are back up to 16 or thereabouts.

Grandson has just come back from the CDS. They were on a schooltrip and playing spanish footie teams. He said it was warm until it started to rain.

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I agree, there is some sound advice. The only negative I see is that some now expect new wannabe's to almost put a CV and a bank statement on the thread before giving advice:)

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haha, up here on the Poniente Granadino it gets warmer when it rains
:)

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...and your house is valued in sterling, which is a hell of a lot less risky than being valued in Euro right now.

We're considering selling while the Euro still has some value.

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Jacky a bit of an exageration....
but how do you respond to someone who says
"I hate life in the UK and I am moving to Spain with the kids and dog in January - what do I need to know?"

Good advice can only come from both sides being honest, we know of one couple who may not come since they found out about the "nasty" autonomo charges. Would they have got here and suddenly found out about them ??

Perhaps you would like to tell all how little information is needed to tell the patient they are dying ??

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considering how the euro seems to be climbing against the pound at the moment (based onthe exchange rate from my weekly visits to the bank) it looks like it isnt doing too bad - for the moment.

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Yes, those are minimum night time temperatures OUTSIDE. Inside it hasn't gone below 22C yet. When the weather is at it's very coldest (maybe for a few nights in January or February) it might be as low as 16 inside when we get up in the morning, when the heater has not been on all night.

I'm sorry for the families who have been to the CDS for half term holidays this last week, the weather hasn't been very good at all.