We planned to fly out to Spain for a weekend at the beginning of October and spend a few days trying to narrow down the town we would want to live in. We knew we wouldn’t want an apartment as we were planning to have a dog – more on that later. We wanted a place with plenty of outside living, after all we were moving to a part of Spain with lots of days of sunshine – we wanted to be able to enjoy it to the full.
Russell asked me for a shopping list of property types and areas we would like to visit and he planned our trip, booked our flights and arranged for the hotel – I think the only things we had to do was confirm the dates we wanted to go, give an indication of what we wanted to see and tell them what we hoped to achieve.
Our shopping list included Mojacar, Arboleas, Turre, Mazzaron, San Cayetano and a selection of duplex, villas, and town houses. Oh, that’s something you need to understand – what a duplex is, what a bungalow is etc. generally a duplex is a terrace or town house or an apartment on 2 floors, a quad is 4 houses built together, one on each corner, a bungalow is a property on one floor, but it may have others built above it, a finca is a rural property - so it is really important to understand what the various types of property are. It took us ages to identify what some of the terms meant.
It seems very odd leaving all the arrangements to someone else, I am by nature an organiser. We were to be met at the airport and taken to the hotel and we had the option of arranging our own car to use or to let Tarleton drive us around. We chose to let then do the driving, after all we didn’t know the area and it would take us a lot longer to visit the various places. Russell had assured us that we would have plenty of opportunity to have time on our own so that we wouldn’t feel pressured, which was important to us.
So, on Friday 5th October we found ourselves at East Midlands airport, case packed and a lot of expectations……
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