My friends ask me why I live in this town and I have great difficulty explaining to them that when I drove into the town it felt like I was coming home, somehow it felt right but I can not tell them why this occurred. It still feels right to me even though I am now here on my own. It was miserable January weather in 2004 when we came house hunting, I was slightly reluctant to move so no rose tinted glasses for me and yet it was me that ended up choosing here. Moved here permanently in 2006 and started to make our life here and loved it. Throughout the last three terrible years have remained content here. I would rather be miserable without my husband here than miserable without him and my wonderful friends by moving back to the UK.

Rosemary

That is so true. I have moved so many times in my life (for my Dad's job when I was a child and then later on for my own career), that when my husband retired in 1997 and we moved to Scotland, I said "thats it, I'm putting down roots and never moving again". 10 years after that we came to Spain. As 10 years is the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my life, 'home' can only ever be where I happen to be at the time.
Everywhere I've lived has had good and bad points. I have no idea if or when I'll move again, never mind to where. I'm just happy taking each day as it comes.

Rosemary I so know what you mean when a place touches your very soul!

Way back in 1983 we drove up the Guadalhorce valley and stopped to look at the castle in Alora.....
I absolutely fell in love with this area in that moment, we continued our journey up to the three lakes, which I thought were the most beautiful I'd ever seen.
From that first sighting we knew that this was where we wanted to be and that it would just be a matter of time until we made this place our forever home, I can honestly say that we have never once regretted the move.

What I find very strange is the fact that when we came to view the house we only met the owner and her daughter and were not overly struck by them so at that point it was just this feeling of being home. Now that it is my home and I have got to know so many of the people I realise that it is their input that makes me want to stay.

For example I was told by the notary that I needed new padron certificates for Graham and myself. Since he died I have tended to take a friend to offices for moral support in case I ended up too emotional to deal with things but today I decided not to be an idiot and went alone. The man who dealt with me checked with me exactly what I needed, sorted it all out on the computer, gave me the certificates and then relaxed from the formal bit and checked that I was alright, then three other members of staff came around the screen and gave me hugs and kisses on the cheek and talked to me about how things were etc. They had all waited to let me deal with the business part first and it is this sort of thing that makes me so glad that I chose this place.

Rosemary