Inspection Trip! Day 2.

Sunday morning saw us up early and off on the drive back up to Murcia. On today’s agenda was a development of multi-coloured houses, a development at San Cayetano of villas, quads and apartments, this would be our first chance to see what a quad house looks like. It would also give us an opportunity to compare the Murcia landscape with that of Almeria and try and decide where we wanted to live. Dan had told us that one of the developments we would be visiting were also building another development that we would visit towards the end of the day. We arrived at our first destination where we were viewing a couple of key ready houses, a 2 bed and a 3 bed – one slight problem, we arrived half an hour before the office opened for us to get the keys, bearing in mind it was Sunday and things started a little later than the day before. Next to the office was a small, very quiet square, with trees casting shadows to protect from the warmth of the sun. Dan suggested a coffee while we waited. Well, remember my comment about when we arrived and how the hotel they had arranged for us definitely made a good impression, well this was definitely at the opposite end of the scale. Whilst the coffee was perfectly drinkable, it wasn’t exactly Starbucks! But sitting in a Spanish square in the autumn sunshine was extremely relaxing and definitely felt good!

Anyway, coffee over, keys collected we went to look around the multi-coloured houses at Los Alcazares. We looked around the 2 bed first and immediately liked the feel of the place, it had some great features and had terraces outside the bedrooms which is a definite plus for us and it had a roof terrace –another box was getting ticked. We then went across the road and after trying to get into the wrong house we entered a house that I immediately started to visualise our furniture in. It was lovely inside and had lots of outside living space. It had an unusual, but very attractive courtyard out the back that concerned me little as we were planning to have a dog, and so our own perimeter was preferable, but we both liked the house a lot.

We then went off to have a look at San Cayetano, again a great development but we decided that the style of the villas and quads didn’t suit what we were looking for, the apartments however would make a great investment place for holiday letting. It was so convenient for the airport, coast and golf. One for the future maybe.

We then had a trip to the new United Golf Resort at La Tercia, no we weren’t going to be buying there, but we did get to see the development, the crazy driving range which will be over a lake where the floating balls are brought back on a wave machine – and definitely a lottery win would see us on this development. What a place! We will definitely be playing golf there when it’s ready.

Ok, next – 1st instalment of the Fish Restaurant!