Very many people in the UK go to Spain or Portugal for their holidays and it is not surprising, especially if you live in the North where the weather can be very depressing in the winter. Southern Spain and Portugal both have that wonderful Mediterranean climate with day after day of sunshine, in some places 330 days a year, so if you like to laze by the pool that is the place to do it.
Furthermore, there are loads of things to see and do in Spain and Portugal, and the food is great too. They eat five times a day in many places – breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, and dinner – and the food is great with plenty of seafood.
So it’s no surprise that some people buy a holiday home there so that they can go as often as they wish, and others decide to retire there. There are lots of villas and apartments for sale in Southern Spain, and some of them in unspoiled towns such as the apartments for sale in Estepona.
This is a super town near Marbella and, unlike that and Torremolinos and Fuengirola, it has managed to retain its’ traditional identity. This is very obvious in the Old Town where the little cobbled lanes have houses with whitewashed walls with flower-pots strewn all over them containing flowers of greens, blues, yellows, and reds. The central square itself is named Plaza de los Flores which translates as “Square of Flowers”.
Estepona also boasts some of the best beaches and best seafood restaurants in Malaga as well. The main beach is Playa Rada which, even in July and August is less crowded than the other Costas, and it backs on to some splendid seafood restaurants and chiringuitos, or bars, as well. It is only a ten-minute walk from the heart of the Old Town. There is also a nudist beach, if that takes your fancy, only a ten-minute drive away.
So if you are thinking about a retirement home in Southern Spain, you might well wish to consider Estepona as, although it does cater for tourists, it doesn’t get as busy as many other towns.
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