We move into a 2 bedroom bungalow type villa on Sunday.
There is a pool and outside kitchen. We can park the caravan on site so it can be offered as extra accommodation for visitors.
It is 400 yards from the town of Xalo/Jalon in a valley with sun all day. Hopefully the weather will stay warm and we can use the pool for a few weeks. It is really hot at the moment but the campsite has closed the pool so we have to go down to the sea for swim. Apparently the coldest month is February. A lot of people BBQ on Christmas Day, so that sounds as though it will be fine.
Xalo is about 15 miles from the sea, has a huge Saturday market and has a lot of ex-pats. We have found some Spanish classes to join already and we are both looking forward to this next phase of our travels.
Unfortunately, there is no wifi connection at the villa so we are going to find internet cafes and tourist offices to keep in contact with everyone. There is still text messaging on my mobile phone number though.
Flights into Alicante are about £50/70 return so we are hoping for lots of friends and family to come over for a visit.
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ann and andy lawrenson 
Glad you found somewhere to live at last. It sounds really nice. Hopefully by joining the Spanish classes you’ll make some local Spanish friends. You don’t really need to practice your english within the ex- pats’ community, do you?? What does one do in winter Xalo except for having tapas with a glass or two of vino?
We are both fine in Houston. Just came back from our Arkansas trip. It was ok, but the hotel was more of a museum than a hotel. In fact it reminded me the hotel from the movie ‘Some like it hot’ especially the lifts! They also had those old TVs with a long cathode at the back! Quite funny really! We took a boat trip one night which was the highlight of our stay there. It seemed to us that we were the only ones on board without any specific reason whilst the majority of the passengers turned up to celebrate something or another!! The food was better than we expected and the wine was fine too. It also happened that there was a documentary film festival happening so after the boat trip we went to see a film about massive killings that were left unpunished in Indonesia during the 60s. It was interesting if a little disturbing
Hopefully you are settling down nicely in your new home.
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Roger and Sveta