I have never been to Spain and don't speak the language, but I am sure that it won't be too much of a problem right? The parent's don't speak much English and the child that I am looking after has been learning English for the last two years, which is not too bad because he is five years old, and his school is run in English, so he is at about a conversational level, so atleast I am not entirely starting from scratch.
I am staying in L'Alfas Del Pi, which is about 45 kilometres from Alicante in the Costa Blanca region of Spain. In a nutshell this area is one of the sunnier spots of the country and is surrounded by the Mediterrian Sea. The local beach is one block from my house, but it isn't like an Australian beach filled with sand, rather white rocks, I prefere the sand. It is a tourist mecca even in Winter, the majority of tourists are British and Norwegian. No idea why the Norweigans want to live in Spain but I am not too surprised that the British do, it is fairly close and there are so many of them here that getting on with life isn't too hard, plus if you had the choice of living in Essex or Spain which would you choose?
The area survives because of this year long tourism, which is surpising to me as my first impression is that Spanish people seem to be a bit over the tourists and wish they would all go away. Strange if you ask me. Cultural differences aside it is a beautiful place to live.
It is also an area where rich Europeans like to do their holidaying and have grand holiday houses. There is a lot of money here and boats. Even though the townships are fairly small they all have their own marinas filled with million dollar boats. Cafes and restaurants line the beach promanade and they are always full. Isn't Europe meant to be going through an ecconomic crisis I hear you ask, don't worry I asked myself the same question, in Spain things don't need to make sense.
