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A place abroad

If I'm doing it, climate needs to be good enough for winter months

Don't fancy canaries, dont want all day full english, dont want to hear too many english, it needs to be within a few hours

What's my options

Is andalucia ok in the winter?

Seems to be decent value

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Me and the Mrs are looking at Cyprus.

Talked to a few people who live there and they've not had a bad word to say about the place.We are going over later in the year to have a look

Get yourself to these here Alps you’ll love it,  7 euro’s for a pint, 2 metres of snow and it was minus 11 yesterday.

You can go on a shit load of holidays for the cost of buying somewhere and you chose where you go rather than having to go back to the same place.

This is easily my preferred option

9 hours ago, Nobster said:

Get yourself to these here Alps you’ll love it,  7 euro’s for a pint, 2 metres of snow and it was minus 11 yesterday.

Sold :lol:

12 hours ago, Casino said:

If I'm doing it, climate needs to be good enough for winter months

Don't fancy canaries, dont want all day full english, dont want to hear too many english, it needs to be within a few hours

What's my options

Is andalucia ok in the winter?

Seems to be decent value

Try Leverburgh.

Or if that's not warm enough Leverville* definitely is!

 

*Now known as Lusanga.

12 hours ago, Casino said:

If I'm doing it, climate needs to be good enough for winter months

Don't fancy canaries, dont want all day full english, dont want to hear too many english, it needs to be within a few hours

What's my options

Is andalucia ok in the winter?

Seems to be decent value

You only have to go inland 1 hour inland on most of the costas and you’ll not see any English breakfasts type places I’d concentrate on 1 hour drive North and south of Alicante airport ( flights will always be plentiful) then drive inland into the mountains. 

Andalusia would’nt have quite as good a climate as Murcia region which is classed as the only desert area in Europe and I’d say it would also be cheaper in that area. Flights into Andalucia would mean flying into Malaga and it’s a fairly long journey to Andalucia from there. If you are serious I’d make sure you do your research and if possible spend a holiday in the area you choose and view properties while you are there before you take the plunge. 

Just checked weather this week where our place and it’s 22c best day and 16c worst day, would love a bit of that at the moment. 

 

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13 hours ago, Casino said:

If I'm doing it, climate needs to be good enough for winter months

Don't fancy canaries, dont want all day full english, dont want to hear too many english, it needs to be within a few hours

What's my options

Is andalucia ok in the winter?

Seems to be decent value

 

there plenty of non full english stuff in  benidorm. 

2 hours ago, Biggish Dave said:

You can go on a shit load of holidays for the cost of buying somewhere and you chose where you go rather than having to go back to the same place.

This is easily my preferred option

100% this

2 hours ago, Biggish Dave said:

You can go on a shit load of holidays for the cost of buying somewhere and you chose where you go rather than having to go back to the same place.

This is easily my preferred option

Albeit you wouldn’t have the residual value of a property at the end of it.

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And I'm on about months at a time, mutt in tow

Surprised how warm it was in Madeira a fortnight ago and 2 euros a pint.

14 hours ago, Casino said:

If I'm doing it, climate needs to be good enough for winter months

Don't fancy canaries, dont want all day full english, dont want to hear too many english, it needs to be within a few hours

What's my options

Is andalucia ok in the winter?

Seems to be decent value

No English voices or full English brekky.

Ceuta is perfect for you

 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

And I'm on about months at a time, mutt in tow

Not Thailand then. :)

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51 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

No English voices or full English brekky.

Ceuta is perfect for you

 

I'd never heard of the place

It looks like it is, or will be, a reet melting pot

I'll pass, thank you. :)

3 minutes ago, Casino said:

I'd never heard of the place

It looks like it is, or will be, a reet melting pot

I'll pass, thank you. :)

I thought you said no English brekkies or hardly any English voices....it’s perfect for you ......unless you’re just another Gary Lineker and the virtue signalling re refugees :D

Joking aside, it’s been bad there for a few years now

 

Crete is 19 deg today. That's t-shirts for us and big coats for Greeks and Southerners.

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6 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Crete is 19 deg today. That's t-shirts for us and big coats for Greeks and Southerners.

Just checked Google maps and it reckons it's 19 days walking and ferries

Can't see me trying

Walking? There's a fortnight holiday from hell! 

I fancy doing long term rents in Spain from the end of Oct till the end of March, then return to the U.K for Spring and Summer.

Cheap as chips, it's not worth putting the money into buying imo.

In laws have a place in chappelle baton, think mid west France. They drive it in a day (I think), but close enough to la Rochelle. We've done it via train into Poitiers. 

 

Quite rural, very warm, cheap as fuck. They bought a farm for next to fuck all, huge property and loads of land. They've been going over every holiday for about six years (she works in a school), almost ready to retire there... Some work to be done, and they researched for years, but worth it.

 

Re the location; lakeside beach and hypermarkets within a short journey, only English voice you'll here are a scattering of ex pat's, and maybe some bucket shakers visiting angoloume... Local celebrity residence; Gregor Fisher

Poitiers weather today 5c (max) -1c (min).

Sounds like a busman's holiday to me, fleeing is still fleeing even in the middle of a vineyard.

Dismissing the Canaries is a bit hasty imo, I genuinely wouldn't know where to get a full English in say; Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife or La Gomera...

As an aside, I'm in awe at Miami's ability to shoehorn some alt-shite content into almost any thread. Quite remarkable.

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Southern Hemisphere for me 

 

If I was going to do it then I’d be looking at Mallorca, fantastic island with a bit of everything 

4 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Southern Hemisphere for me 

 

Melbourne? 

Best Cricket ground in the world.:D

 

15 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

Melbourne? 

Best Cricket ground in the world.:D

 

It’s ok, but it’s not Lords

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or Argentina

common denominator?

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