Orihuela-Costa - Spain Blog

Saint John’s Festival

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:15:46 +0000

Title: Saint John’s FestivalLocation: TorreviejaDescription: Torrevieja celebrates Saint John’s Day with fireworks and bonfires, just on a smaller scale. The pagan origins of the ‘Hogueras de San Juan’ are all to do with the triumph of light over darkness. Festive occasion with food, drinks and leaping over flames. Often the custom of swimming in the [...]

Flea Market

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:41:06 +0000

Title: Flea MarketLocation: The Rocajuna in Punta PrimaDescription: A new Flea Market is opening on Sunday 13 December at 10am in the beautiful grounds of The Rocajuna in Punta Prima, then weekly thereafter………Start Time: 10:00Date: 2009-12-13

Heating the house

Spain-Lover — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:44 +0000

Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to keep the temperature in the house (I live in Torrevieja, south Costa Blanca) above the freezing point? Since we do not have any kind of central heating and we only have one air-conditioning in the living room the temperature in all the other rooms in [...]

Your computer company link on this page

Spain-Lover — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:03 +0000

Hello,

I have had my laptop computer for repair to the guys of compured and they were not only very polite but also repaired my computer within one day. Since I’m single in Spain I need my laptop for the internet most of the time. Thank you for the referral. Spain-Lover.

Swine Flu H1N1 vaccination Spain

Dean — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:51:26 +0000

Hello Spain,

I’m Dean and live in Torrevieja since 2000. My wife and I feel home here but know about certain discrepancies here in Spain. That why we are a little worried about the situation of the swine flu influenza and the meassures taken to prevent an epidemic or pandemic here in Spain. Is the Spanish [...]

Hi all Spain friends and posters at the Orihuela Costa Blog.

Orihuela-Costa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:05:57 +0000

My name is Mike and I live here in Orihuela Costa for 8 years now. I’ve come down here to work as a computer and network technician and have fulfilled my dream by becomming selfemployed.

My family, my wife and daughter, came down here with me and we are all well and are making a nice [...]

Hello Orihuela-Costa Fans!

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:52:30 +0000

Welcome to the Orihuela-Costa Blog in and for Spain. You may feel free to post your thoughts concerning living and life in and about Orihuela-Costa or Torrevieja, Calpe or Denia, Almeria or Malaga Murcia or Alicant, on the Costa Blanca, in Spain.About the up and downs you have encountered getting here or the usaul problems [...]