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coastal chaos, many can be found at the Tuesday morning market in the town of Albox, the main social event of the ...Well... about me really; I work by area! myself, covering all aspects of buying & selling land and houses in The scenery of Oria is dominated by the one small rural area of Almeria. I rugged mountains always in the operate using an excellent web-site background, but softened by the fields built for me by Dezert Dezine, a lap- of almond trees, the main local top computer, a mobile phone and a produce. At different altitudes, the digital camera, from the side of a scenery can change dramatically; you mountain, miles from a phone line. can be in a desert canyon expecting So it can be done (it wasn't easy "Clint" to step out from behind a and I still can't find the phone I boulder, within fifteen minutes, you can threw down the garden), but please be lost in the middle of a grove of be patient when waiting for a reply orange trees and fifteen minutes later as the phone signal still goes still, you can find yourself in an area that looks just like Wales with pine & oak tetas'p'arriba sometimes! forests AND SUN! I operate in and around an area called Oria, 80 km NNE from the city of The local history is rich and varied; Almeria. It is a rural area encompassing many Moorish buildings dating from the the beautiful "Sierra de las Estancias" eleventh century are dotted around as mountains & foothills. The majority of well as some earlier Roman ruins. Much the area is still very Spanish, though of the terrace walling and the miles of once you begin to look around you will irrigation channels still used today were find a surprising number of ex-pats originally installed by the Moors secreted in farmhouses and villages between the eleventh & thirteenth throughout the vicinity. Most are here for centuries, an incredible feat of the sun and mild winters away from the engineering!
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The weather...Aaah...the weather, you can usually add at least 10°C to whatever you've got in England; winter barely lasts for three months; for six months, it's an occasion if a cloud is spotted in the clear blue sky; then there's the summer nights (excuse me if this sounds like something from 'Grease'!), 30ºC...watching the stars in a pair of shorts and sandals...G&T by your hand...towel nearby to mop it up when you spill it all over yourself... Suffice to say that in the UK, I took at least two painkillers every day, ten months of the year, to enable myself to continue working; in the two years since I moved here permanently, I have taken about half-a-dozen, usually after a particularly strenuous days work on my house...It's a good life.. . As far as access is concerned, we are 1 hour from Almeria airport, 2 hours from Alicante & Murcia airports, 40 minutes from the beaches of Mojacar and Garrucha, 50 minutes from 'Cabo de Gata' national park and 1 hour 45 minutes away from the beautiful city & skiing of Granada.
Mojacar Magazine April to May 2009