Now where was I....?

Ah, yes, trying to explain how we went from looking for a property in southern Spain to ending up with a property in northern Spain. Well, we had always had a bit of a hankering to look at Galicia after reading an advertisment in one of the property mags - it sounded like our kind of area - green - yes I know it rains but at least we have water - forests, rivers and mountains - and hot summers and mild winters.

However, although we had a hankering so see it we had friends also moving down to the south who were singing its praises - mainly how cheap the property was and how hot it was. Now strangely enough I don't really like it too hot - I soon get all hot and bothered and past my best but we decided that south was the place to go and off we went. Now we really did meet up with some weird and wonderful estate agents - both English and Spanish - all had the perfect property at the perfect price and none of them were going to rip us off - some tried, some succeeded and only one of them was really trustworthy and has since gone on to bigger and better things - he has a great new website and still looks and sounds the same because, out of idle curiousity you understand, I had a quick peep at the websites before starting this blog.

Anyway we went, we tried, we failed to find the house of our dreams - we nearly did 3 times but they fell through - some at the first hurdle, one at the last - luckily for us as it turned out.