Research 2: Where does it rain least?

Both Neil & I set about checking property websites with properties to sell. We needed to see how much somewhere to live would cost us and the Internet is certainly an easy way to do this. We wanted to live somewhere we could get to the coast within half an hour and wanted to be on the Mediterranean coast, somewhere not too overdeveloped and still with a very Spanish feel. Somewhere with dry weather and plenty of golf. We had previously visited the Murcia region so started looking at places there.

One thing you have to get used to is that the quality of photos on Spanish properties is really poor compared to those used in this country when selling property and it did cross my mind there was a business opportunity for a photographer over there. Some rooms were so dark; it made me wonder what the seller was trying to hide. It became obvious very early on that bedrooms in Spain are just that; there is room for a bed – just! However, with most properties having an element of outside living, the rooms sizes were not as important as here (I’m starting to sound like an Estate Agent on here, although I cannot decide what the opposite to ‘deceptively spacious’ is! The other thing I couldn’t get used to is that there are no room sizes quoted as we do – everything is measured in square meters. Now, considering that I have no spacial awareness whatsoever, it was very difficulty for me to know how big a house with 95m2 of living space actually was. I need to stand inside a room to know how big it is and whether my furniture will fit.

We booked marked a few websites that seemed to have a good variety of properties listed and over the next couple of weeks spent a considerable amount of time browsing the websites and every time we came across a property we liked the look of we would then google the town to see what we could find out about the various places. We also found ourselves looking into the towns in the northern part of the region of Almeria. There were a number of towns that we kept coming across and decided we needed to do more research into these.