News from the Mar Menor, Costa Calida

 Decided to make the most of Saturday and the glorious sunshine and abandon the housework and explore a bit more of our area.

We decided to explore the wine growing are around Jumilla. The scenery was fantastic and there were lots of vines but with no signs of growth on them yet.

Stopped in Pinosa for coffee and bocadilla in a small Spanish bar which was very pleasant. 

Will put more details of the route we took on the website but its a good day out for either a day that you want to be in the car with the air con on so you keep cool or a sunny day this time of year when it is not warm enough to be outside for a long time but you fancy being out of doors

 Ten days ago I attended a meeting hosted by the British Consulate in Torreveija.  He gave out lots of very useful information and one thing he kept saying was dont listen to pub information/gossip if you want to know something about health or pensions or taxes etc thenphone the consulate in Alicante.  They might not be able to answer the question but will be able to tell you a man who can!!!

Whilst at the meeting i learnt several things about life over here that i had been told differently when chatting to people

the consulate has a really good website as well, and we have put some of the links and general information on our site so take a look   www.discovercostacalida.info,  - you might be lucky like me and find you are entitled to something that you didnt think was possible.