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WASTING SAVING TIME Having had some time to kill last month I sat down and did the thoroughly useless but, for me, enjoyable exercise of working out just how much time we spend doing things. For example, if I play my cards right, if I curl up my toes around 80 (ish) I’ll have time between now and then to spend approximately 532 days on the beach, a similar amount of time drinking coffee and a shockingly huge
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(and I must harness this time) amount of time answering the call of nature –
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240 days! The fact that I could realistically spend a good half of the rest of my
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then we’d need to at least triple that figure. Talking takes up an awful lot of time
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making love – 3 days...yes that is in total!
Saturdays
Back on track and I’ll be driving for a good year in total which means I’ll be
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Sleeping will fill an awful lot of that time in future too so perhaps if I combine a couple at least and say, sleep while on the beach, or talk while using the bathroom (hmm...) I could save myself some time – I guess a packed lunch while
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queuing in the bank is another way? Sundays But what will I do with all this time I’m going to save (and that’s just by swap-
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ping banks...) you may well ask..? I haven’t a clue but one thing is for sure and
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that’s the fact that I’m in the right place to do it. Have you seen how crystal clear
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the Mediterranean is lately! Spending time enjoying the finer, and free, things in Spain is one thing that I and many others are going to be doing more of in the
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future that’s for sure, now if we could just get an extension lead and a printer onto the sun beds...we’d save days!
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ALICANTE
By Dave Bull
The Valencian region’s second largest city Alicante has had
the bustling trading port that it has come to be famous for
a busy past not only with the many welcome visitors that
over the years. However the city suffered, more than many
have come to this typical Mediterranean city but with many
other towns and cities, during the civil war but during the
unwelcome ones too including the Romans who named it
latter half of the twentieth century it began to build itself
Lucentum but it was in the 8th century that the city re-
back up, embracing tourism and industry which have both
ally put itself on the map when the Santa Barbara castle
prospered.
was built by the Arab invaders who renamed the town Al
With over 340,000 inhabitants Alicante isn’t small but it
–Laqant.
certainly isn’t big either and a walk around the place taking
The place officially became a city, and was named Alicante,
in a few, or all, or the places we visited last month will give
two hundred years later in 1490 when it started to become
you an appetite only this Mediterranean city can satisfy!
Santa Barbara Castle
Alicante Town Hall
One of the largest medieval fortresses in Spain the castle sits 166
Inside the town hall the blue room can be found which
metres above the town on Mount Benicantil. It has, like the city,
was decorated for the Isabel II who inaugurated the first
changed much and had many modifications over the years but is a
train that would arrive from Madrid in 1858. Outside the
good place to visit on any tour of the town and a handy
building has Solomonic columns and two towers and the
lift from the seafront saves tired legs if necessary.
place was built on the original site of the old City House.
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La Ciudad Descubierta – ruins of houses that were bom-
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barded by the French in 1691 can be seen along with the Door to the Sea which is a wall that protected the city in the 1700’s. Tel 96 514 9100 Website www. Alicante- ayto.es
The Central Market Stock up on the freshest of fruit, vegetables and of course that Mediterranean staple of fish. The Central Market is a bustling hive of activity with fresh produce being sold and more arriving all of the time you are there. Built between 1917 and 1921 the market was designed by architect Juan Vidal and has a dome on the south western corner and mosaic tiles decorating the outside. Head behind the market on any weekend and you see the plaza filled with flowers being sold at the many cabinas and hoards of Alicante’s young, old and pretty much anyone filling the place to Mercardo Central
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it. Another building by Juan Vidal it was commis-
theatre was refurbished in 1947 after it had been
sioned by Enrique Carbonell in 1924 whom had
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made his fortune selling uniforms to the French
1991.
during the First World War.
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at the time, Lamaignere House, but was refused
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Plaza de Los Luceros
An wonderfully atmospheric ‘square’ that is surrounded by cafes and dominated by the huge statue by Daniel Banuls and is the site where any and all of Alicante’s sports teams head to celebrate and is also the site for the Mascleta fireworks.
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Things are looking up… By Sharon Hulbert Real Estate Consultant
November… warm days, cool eve-
Please note I was working on a Sun-
again, there are some really nice pro-
nings… and the sun still shines on
day! It has been so busy this last
jects out there bringing new design to
the Costa Blanca!
month, lots of enquiries and lots of
the area, and they are selling fast, in
people buying here. Why? Because we
fact one builder has completely sold
have the weather and that will never
out months before completion of the
change.
project.
the worst storm in years. The trains
Spain continues to draw buyers
Real Estate is exciting at the moment,
into London have been cancelled and
seeking a new life or a bolthole in
lots of buyers, new designs and prices
commuters will now be considering
the sun like nowhere else. Costa
stabilising, it is great to get the buzz
how to get to work, by the time you
Blanca property, remain as popular
back! This can only be good news for
read this it will all be over, back to
as ever, no one can pretend that the
us all.
normal, who knows what damage it
Spanish housing market has been in
will cause, but one thing is for sure
good health recently, even the Span-
the weather in the UK will never be as
ish president had to accept an ask-
good as it is in Spain.
ing price for his holiday property in
Here I am sitting at home listening to the UK news about the onslaught of
Almeria of 38 per cent below what he I have just spent a lovely Sunday
paid at the top of the market in 2007.
afternoon with a client from the UK looking for a property here on the
However I think we are on the turn
Costa Blanca because, in his words…
now, I have noticed a change in the
“I want to sit on my balcony and feel
availability of cheaper properties and
the sun on my face!”
according to recent reports in the press Spain’s economy is showing an improvement and an end to the recession is near. Very soon the banks will have fewer repossession properties to sell which will help to stabilise prices and stop these cheap properties from lowering the market, at the end of the day it was the banks that overvalued properties and got us in this mess in the first place! Greedy, fat cats! Oh yes and the cranes are back! Have you noticed the builders are working
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EXPAT LIVES
Tony Moore
Musician, broadcaster, singer - Tony has a few stories to tell... Interview by Dave Bull You never know when you meet some-
honeymoon to brighton while he waited to
A new expat station had started up in Torre-
one for the first time just what sort of
see if he had ot the job as a presenter on the
vieja in 2003 and Tony was wanted by station
life they have had do you? And some
radio station. On their return from brighton a
owner Chris, to front the new station with a
people we see now retired on the Costa’s
week later there was a telegram waiting for
program of his own. Although Tony was very
and going about their retirement lazily
Tony telling him to pack his bags and get his
reluctant Chris managed to get him onto the
and happily have had some fascinating
sea legs ready as he had got the job!
studio and then proceeded to lock the door and refuse to let Tony out
experiences in their lives and i caught up with one last month, my mate and now
It was 1967 and Tony was working alongside
until he’d finished the show!
retired broadcaster from Real Radio In-
the likes of Don Allen, a well known broad-
Tony laughed as he told
ternational, Tony Moore.
caster of the time, and he made a success of
me the story and how
his new job staying with Radio Caroline until
he then stayed at that
Music has been in Tony’s life for as long as
the very end when the ship was eventually
station
he can rememeber and since he bought his
sunk by the Dutch government – Tony had
six years.
first guitar at aged ten he hasn’t stopped ei-
made a hasty departure in plenty of time.
ther playing instruments or playing music to
So it was back to playing music for Tony and
Tony rounded off his
people. Seeing the new styles of music such
the seventies brought opportunities to play in
broadcasting
as Rock and Roll emerge in the fifties Tony
the Cliff Richard backing orchestra and also
i’m proud to say, as a
wanted some of the action and by the time
the offer to cut a record at a professional stu-
colleague of mine on Real
the swinging sixties had started Tony was in
dio. Tony laughs now when he recalls the day
Radio International and i know
a showband playing trombone and guitar and
when he was due to go an record a single.
everyone at the station looks up to
touring the United States stopping off to play
He tells me it was to be done late in the af-
Tony for what he has achieved over the
at venues in New York, Boston, Philidelphia
ternoon nd so having a few butterflies in his
years. If Tony rings and says “Good show!” it
and Las Vegas. Tony didn’t like Vegas very
stomach he decided a couple of beers would
really means something.
much and it was during the tour that he and
calm his nerves. He ended up at a party and
All the crew, including Rupert, have asked me
a couple of fellow band mates decided that
getting soundly drunk before heading off for
to pass on their best wishes to Tony and Ju-
when they arrived by in the UK they would
the studio, with no nerves at all...although he
liana and as station boss Cliff Roberts said,
go their own way and set up their own band
cant remember clearly...
“Tony helped us raise the station to a whole
which was just as well as they soon discov-
for
another
career,
new level and his experience has always been
ered their current manager was a crook and
It was a disaster. Everytime they played the
had sold all of the band’s equipment!
music into his headphones he fell asleep!
a great asset for us.”
Suffice to say h didn’t get thedeal but moved
I just goes to show doesn’t it? As i said at
Back in west London and the
on to yet another interesting gig as part of a
thestart of this piece – you just don’t know
new band didn’t last too long
backing band for a group of strippers.
people until you really get to know them. If
or bring in too much in the way
Spain came onto the horizon for Tony and Ju-
you should bump into Tony around Ciudad
f wages so Tony took on a job
liana in 2002 when Juliana’s doctor suggested
Quesada just give him a nudge an a wink
packing jewellery and clothes to
her poor health would be better in a climate
would you...he’s a very quiet chap really!
pay the bills until he managed
such as the Costa Blanca. It didn’t take them
Taking things a whole lot easier these days
to get an interview for a new
long to make their minds up and with in short
Tony can be found singing now and again at
pirate radio station based on a boat off the
space of time Tony was back on the radio
The Pirate Bar on the golf course in Ciudad
dutch coast, called Radio Caroline.
again,only this time in spain and this time
Quesada and as Smashy and Nicey would
At the same time he had also married his
very reluctantly.
have said, “he’s supertastic...mate!”
sweetheart Juliana and they headed off on
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From Radio Caroline to Nevada and from Northampton to New York – Tony Moore has played with the best...and with Cliff Richard.
Taking things a whole lot easier these days Tony can be found singing now and again at The Pirate Bar on the golf course in Ciudad Quesada and as Smashy and Nicey would have said, he’s supertastic...mate! All the crew, including Rupert, have asked me to pass on their best wishes to Tony and Juliana and as station boss Cliff Roberts said, “Tony helped us raise the station to a whole new level and his experience has always been a great asset for us.”
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A Real moving sto Dave Bull
Family disputes aren’t uncommon, we’ve all had
Mrs Smith, who is retired, was shocked initially and
them or certainly heard about them but usually they
then vowed to fight for the home her husband and
are over quickly and life moves on. Unfortunately
her had created together. And for the small matter
for one Torrevieja lady they didn’t quite happen. In
that it was the only home she had and had nowhere
fact her son spent nearly ten years and an awful lot
else to go.
of money trying to get her evicted and effectively left homeless.
That small matter didn’t seem to affect the step son who tried his hardest to get her out and eventual-
Things went wrong in 2004 when Mrs Smith’s hus-
ly, after nine years and a lot of cash spent by both
band died in Spain. The problem was that his only
sides, Mrs Smith had spent her saving trying to save
will and testament was a German one in which the
her home, she was turfed out in 2012 and needed
property in which they had been living, in La Sies-
to get back to the UK where at least she could stay
ta Torrevieja, had been left to his wife. However,
with relatives. But she had no money either.
under Spanish law if there is no Spanish will the
Fortunately the problem had reached the ears of
property goes to the next of kin – in this case his
charity Help the Aged who offered her assistance
son from his first marriage and a chap who wasn’t
in getting back to the UK but it would mean leaving
keen on letting his step-mother get anything out of
behind her life’s possessions and furniture that she
his father’s estate.
needed to try and start again in the UK although
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Heard about it Anne Marie Prue, estimator at Howells Removals in Formentera had her ear to the ground at about this time too and picked up on the story and offered the services of her and husband Steve’s services to transport as much stuff back to the UK for Mrs Smith as she wanted too. To say that she was delighted would be an understatement and the crew at the charity where more than grateful for Howells Removals stepping in and solving what was a huge problem for Mrs Smith. Soon enough the Howells team arrived at the house on La Siesta, Torrevieja and loaded up her possessions ready for transportation back to the UK. Anne Marie who has seen many different reasons for moving home over the years in her role as an estimator for the company said, ‘I just couldn’t believe it when I heard
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