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Can is start this article by congratulating Peugeot for manufacturing what must be one of securest motorcycle storage spaces (under the seat) in the world. I’ll explain in a bit.

Firstly of course festive greetings to all our readers who, if I know anything about All Abroad readers, will be warming up for Christmas and New Year rather nicely by now. I must also thank Elena Pei Shi Chen from BSA school Alicante who won our competition to design this month’s front cover – I’ll be seeing her at the school this month with her prize.

Right, the motorbike seat then. I’d gone to Elche to meet someone and after buying a few bits from a local supermarket I Read the rest of this entry »

Dave Bull takes a trip to the heart of the Alicante wine region ‘Los Pinos’ (the pines) and staggers home afterwards, no doubt…

PINOSO

For those looking for the real Spain and an idea of true Spanish rural life, Pinoso has that and more. Pinoso, which is also known as Pinos, is tucked away amongst mountains on the Murcia/Valencia border sitting 450 metres Read the rest of this entry »

…WE STILL WEAR SANDALS

Roaming around this old town Dave Bull resisted the urge to do it as the Romans did all those years ago and left his sandals at home for a visit to LA Romana

LA ROMANA

‘Very welcoming and truly beautiful’ is often how  La Romana is described and so it’s no real surprise to find Read the rest of this entry »

Hotel Balneario – Banos de Fortuna

Dave Bull and photographer Mark Welton visited one of the regions oldest, and prettiest, hotels, the Hotel Balneario in Fortuna and discovered that things haven’t always checked out well for the historic complex.

Having been used by Romans and Moors as a spa, (not the supermarket…) Fortuna was left abandoned until 1860 when along came Juan Cascales Font with an idea to build a hotel on the site of the hot springs, the hotel was Hotel Balneario and it is much the same today, Victorian in its style and quality, as it was when it opened 150 years ago.

The first building built on the site was just 16 metres x 50 metres and was situated on top of the thermal springs Read the rest of this entry »

Dave Bull’s been busy of late, writing a book no less and as it heads off to the publishers from some serious scrutiny we thought we’d give you a taste of ‘The Trouble with Spain’ – with Dave’s permission of course (well, sort of…)

Synopsis

At the end of 1999 Dave Bull reluctantly moved to Spain with his wife and his 7 year old son to start a new life.

Ten years later his life has changed following his divorce and Read the rest of this entry »