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| Author | : Yvonne Bartholomew |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2015-07-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781515199274 |
My husband and I got home quite late last night, around 10:30, after enjoying a delicious 4-course meal with wine and a complimentary liqueur, which cost us 12.50 each. We sat on the terrace in moonlight bright enough to cast shadows, listening to music for a couple of hours. Before we turned in for the night, we took a dip in the pool; why not? The water temperature was still a very pleasant 32 C. This may sound like something out of one of those glossy Sunday supplement lifestyle magazines, but I assure you it is not. This is normal summer life for those of us lucky Ex-Pats who live here on the wonderful Costa Blanca. And no, we are not millionaires, nor are we in possession of huge pensions - I wish. My husband is not even a retired bank robber - the amazed response from an English tourist we were chatting to a few weeks ago, when we told him we had lived here for the last 10 years! Tempted to join us? This is what Volume 2 of "Dreaming of Retiring to the Costa Blanca?" is all about. What you need to be aware of. What the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them. Basically - together with Volume 1 - all the information you need to make life here as pleasant and hassle free as it possibly can be. Because trust me, if you just leap in to the move without doing your research, hassle is exactly what you are going to get. Spain is not England with sunshine, it has different laws. Different ways of doing things. But get it right, and there is no reason why you shouldnt join the growing tribe of Ex-Pats who know they made the right decision. Volumes 1 and 2 of "Dreaming of Retiring to the Costa Blanca are written to give you all the information you need to make the dream a reality. Volume 2 contains a mix of totally new information that has arisen from the huge amount of feedback I received after publishing Volume 1; it also contains updates on all the vast amount of legislation that concerns Ex-Pats which has been enacted here in Spain in 2015. The majority of this legislation benefits us Ex-Pats, but it is complicated and can be very confusing; I have done my best to iron out the jargon and make it comprehensible. Enjoy, and enjoy the lifestyle that waits for you here even more!"
| Author | : Yvonne Bartholomew |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2014-07-12 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781500452407 |
We moved to the lovely Costa Blanca North around eight years ago, and I can honestly say that we have had no regrets at all in leaving grey, cold, crowded England. Life here is as good as it gets; the weather is kind, the people lovely, the food and drink excellent, the whole lifestyle an object lesson in how life should be lived. Sounds wonderful? Take my word for it, it is! Before we moved, I thought I had done as much research as it was possible to do. I thought I had all the answers at my fingertips; and bear in mind I used to work for the British Library, so if I could not be confident that I had done my research well and thoroughly, who could? I read numerous “how to” guides, haunted the internet, made sure I kept up with all the Costa Blanca local papers on line. It was only after we had made the move, alas, that I realized that I had neglected the one, vital thing that all expats don´t understand, and it´s a real Catch-22 situation. You see, when you make the move, when you finally get over here and start settling in, you suddenly realize that whilst all that research is lovely, you still don´t have the key to living here.Why? Simply because you don´t know what the right questions are to ask! You really do have to live here to know how true this simple fact is. The manuals and the internet articles are a help, of course, but they are far less than half the story.Until you move here, you have no real idea of how differently things are done in Spain. Everything from buying to your house, to everyday living is not as is done in the UK! But you can get there, you just need to know what to ask, who to ask, and how to ask it! And the answers are here. Basically, this is a Guide to Questions I Wish I had Known About 8 years Ago, when we moved over. Together, of course, with the all important answers. I do not - not for one second! - regret making the move, but Oh! - how I wish I had had someone to tell me these secrets at the time.In any event, here it is, and I look forward to raising a glass of something nice to you when you arrive in the lovely Costa Blanca, to enjoy your well-earned retirement.Bienvenidos a Costa Blanca!
| Author | : Yvonne Bartholomew |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2015-11-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781519308917 |
Ten years ago we made the decision that was to change our lives forever. It was now or never; if our courage failed us now, it would be never. So we went for it; we both took early retirement from our jobs and announce to friends and family that we were upping sticks and moving from our suburban semi-detached to start a new life on Spain´s glorious Costa Blanca. The reaction was the same from almost everybody. A gasp of "Oh, you lucky things!" was followed by a more cautious; "But what are you going to do with yourselves all day? You´ll be ever so bored when the novelty wears off." A few, less polite folk simply doubted our sanity, and warned us we would be back within a year. Perhaps we are lucky. The novelty has never worn off. We find as much excitement in each new day as we did on that very first day we stepped off the ´plane into glorious sunshine. Because this is the reality of the dream. We wanted no more than what virtually every wanna be ex-pat dreams of; like most people, our ambitions were modest. We wanted a new life in the sun, without the restrictions of work and weather. We had no ambitions to buy a house with a garden big enough to start a zoo in the garden. We didn´t even want to start up a Bed and Breakfast business. We just wanted to be happy in our retirement, in our new life. In our own little corner of paradise. And these memories are a reflection of that dream; the dream that came true. And for those we left behind in the UK, and especially those friends and colleagues who doubted our sanity a decade ago, I can only suggest that they take a look at this gentle amble through our lives. At memories of lions kept as guard dogs; of stolen electric meters and intransigent officials. Stories of forest fires and fiestas. Of wild boars and lollipops. And, of course, that pesky vulture on Paco´s roof....And a special "thank you" to the many kind people who have contacted me after reading my "how to" guides on moving here ("Dreaming of Moving to the Costa Blanca?" Volumes 1 and 2) asking what it is really like to actually live here on the Costa Blanca. It was their curiosity that prompted this book; for this is the most popular question I have received, from readers as far afield as the USA and Canada and the Philippines (not to mention West Yorkshire!); the information on how to do it is great, but what´s it like? Really?Enquire within.....
| Author | : S. Pack |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2006-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230601162 |
Following WWII, the authoritarian and morally austere dictatorship of General Francisco Franco's Spain became the playground for millions of carefree tourists from Europe's prosperous democracies. This book chronicles how this helped to strengthen Franco's regime and economic and political standing.
| Author | : Karen O'Reilly |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2013-08-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135433801 |
'Brits in Spain' first achieved notoriety during the 1980s - popularly imagined as a group made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and leathery looking pensioners - welcome to 'Little England'! The British on the Costa Del Sol is the very first book to study this British expatriate community in any great depth and, through use of interviews with members of this community, paints a far more complex picture of its members. In doing so the author explodes the popularly held stereotype of 'Brits in Spain'. What emerges is a rich account of who migrates, their reasons for migration and the day to day realities of expatriate life.
| Author | : Anthony D'Andrea |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2007-01-24 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1134110502 |
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption. In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization. This book is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.
| Author | : Caroline Oliver |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0415372712 |
The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities – to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. Retirement Migrationgives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today.
| Author | : Michaela Benson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2016-05-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 131710515X |
Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.
| Author | : Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 766 |
| Release | : 2010-05-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9027288399 |
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
| Author | : Charles Richet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : First philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
