steviedeluxe

It may look cold, but isn't it beautiful! (several days recently have been more or less sunny)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...s-8288934.html

jimenato

The Telegraph did an autumn gallery the other day - stunning.

Dick Dasterdly

Bootiful.

Rosemary

What wonderful pictures to look at when it is a wet and dull day in my area.

Rosemary

Pocaloca

Lovely photos! All I can see here is fog and rain! We are engulfed in cloud.

megmet

Lovely photos, but as for the title of the thread....I am home, it's here in Spain!

Domino

well said Meg

we have made this our home and on every visit back to the UK will be Visitors, both fiscally and legally, despite the passport details.
still not sure about being buried here, but even if I go first I probably won't have much say in it.

When on an overseas posting then I would be going home, but this is where I now call Home.

Dick Dasterdly

I would estimate that at least 90% of the folk I knew who considered Spain to be there permanant home, way back when I bought my first place here, ended up back in the UK within seven or eight years.

Nothing at all to do with the recession, it was long before that.

In fact now I'm hard pressed to think of any of them who I know for sure are still here.


Whilst I have no doubt they were quite sincere at the time, I only begin to take such declarations of intent seriously now after I know they have been living here permanently for at least ten years.

bxpuser24710519

I like LOOKING at the nice snowy images but glad I am not there and having to deal with getting to work etc.

Spain is my home till I or life decides othewise.

tommy.irene

This is my home today..36*

Dick Dasterdly

Obviously got your thermometer in the wrong position.
The true temperature should be taken in the shade and it's nothing like 36c

megmet

Well I know many people who have been here longer than that, and only a very small number have gone back.

Personally we have nothing to "go back" for!
Our two daughters have been here and married to Spaniards for over twenty years, we have grandchildren who were born here and now a great grandchild as well, we also have friends here of several decades standing.
Other members of our families are scattered all over the world, only a few cousins that we hardly know still reside in the UK.

So not only are we not going back... we are not even going back in a box when the time comes!

Dick Dasterdly

Wish I had a hundred euros for every time I heard that said.

To be fair with your family married into a Spanish family then it's a totally different situation to those I mentioned and it's great that you feel completely and permanently settled here.

Most of those I refer to were back in my Tenerife days, having already been there a while and loving it in every respect, especially it's wonderful climate and prices that were unbelievably cheap at that time.

However unlike yourself, they mostly had close family back in the UK.
The one thing that struck me most, when they out of the blue announced they were going back, was that they expressed a strong desire or urgent need to return to their roots, as quite a few of them were getting on a bit.

I must confess, I think I would feel much the same myself, if I wasn't in the fortunate position to be able to continue splitting my time between the two as well as elsewhere.

Pocaloca

Home is where the heart is - you have to live where you are happiest!

Unfortunately, to quote another cliché, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. If you are unhappy in one place, you aren't necessarily going to leave your unhappiness behind if you move to another place.

Dick Dasterdly

Very True.
Lord knows I met plenty of them.
"England is f**ked this is the place to be".

They were mostly back home,(England), in much less than a couple of years.