San Pedro Road Works – update
October 15, 2009 - Posted in Articles
So it seems that all the panic with respect to closing the A7 though San Pedro seems to have been misplaced. Although the road has already bee closed.....
Road Link Ronda to Benavis Roads now open
July 22, 2009 - Posted in Articles
It is encouraging to see that despite the economic crisis that the infrastructure on the Costa del Sol is continuing to improve. Whilst the road works in San Pedro continue to cause a measure of frustration the end result will, I am sure, be worth all the inconvenience of the last, ...
Selling the Costa del Sol
July 15, 2009 - Posted in Articles, Marketing
One of the reasons I have written little on this blog during the last few days is that we have spent some time helping a Belgian TV company who area making a programme about the property market on the Costa del Sol
Costa Car Hire
July 15, 2009 - Posted in Articles, Marketing
Summer 2009 and the the Costa del Sol car hire companies seem to have been caught out by the demand for car hire! Despite all the gloomy predictions from my friends who write the newspapers it would seem that more people than anticipated are deciding to take a holiday on the ...
San Pedro road works
July 8, 2009 - Posted in Articles
Did anyone realise that the tolls on the AP7 between San Pedro had been waived last weekend to try and reduce the traffic congestion on the A7 (N340) in San Pedro? I certainly didn't until I read about it in the Sur in English, after the event! It would appear that ...
“Spain : Paradise Lost?” Part 2
July 8, 2009 - Posted in Articles
I just about managed to watch the second part of Spain : Paradise Lost without switching off the TV. In this episode we were shown a couple who, with no previous experience in restaurants or bars and no knowledge of Spanish, had bought a café in Benidorm and ...
Michael Jackson
June 29, 2009 - Posted in Articles
It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of Michael Jackson. Although during the last years his reputation was dragged through the mud nothing can take away from the fact that the man was a genius who has left behind a legacy of some of the most impressive ...
Spain: Paradise Lost?
June 26, 2009 - Posted in Articles
It was with some trepidation that I sat down to watch the first part of ITV’s 2 part documentary entitled Spain : Paradise Lost. As a long term resident of Spain and the owner/manager of an estate agency here I am always wary when the media get the teeth into the ...
Chiringuitos on the Costa del Sol
June 26, 2009 - Posted in Articles
I was reading about the ongoing saga of the Chiringuitos in the Sur in English. It looks as though the Town Hall are not starting to follow through on proposals to start moving the Chiringuitos off the beach and in some cases right away from the coastal strip.