Why Spain????

Welcome to our Canadians in the Spanish Sun blog. We hope our experience, tips and suggestions will inspire you to join the growing number of Canadians who are enjoying the sunshine, good food, excellent wine, and friendly people of the Costa del Sol. Over the past few years we've discovered great little villages, wonderfully affordable accommodations, excellent restaurants and useful money-saving tips and tricks to make your Spanish holiday as wonderful as ours have been. Here's some photos of this years journey. We're in Nerja (about 35 minute drive from Malaga airport) in a cosy apartment in the centre of old-town Nerja. Outside our wrought-iron balcony is a traditional narrow cobbled street where the local people have shops and homes. In the morning, the old Spanish ladies sweep their doorsteps and water the brilliant red geraniums adorning their windows. In the afternoon, the children run home from school. At night, the shutters are closed up tight and there are strolling couples, occassional tourists, sometimes a local boy on his scooter with a fashionably dressed senorita perched behind him. It's a traditional Spanish village brought into the 20th century, overlooking the Mediterranean....the building we live in is probably three hundred years old but I am writing this on my laptop using my landlord's wireless internet. It's this juxtaposition of old and new, of the modern and the historic, that makes Spain such a delightful holiday destination. And the way to appreciate it, is to make Spain your winter home for a month or two months or even longer. We'll show you how it can all be possible. Hasta luego! Johanna