La cala de mijas is a great place for a retirement home

If you are looking for a retirement home in the sun in Spain, have you considered La Cala de Mijas? It is situated in the province of Malaga and is on the coast of the Costa del Sol and is only a 15 minute drive to Marbella and 25 minutes to Malaga, so if you enjoy a day out in the bigger cities they are not very far away. Fuengirola, which is more relaxed than the bigger cities, is only 10 minutes by car.

The weather is great as you would expect on the Spanish coast with an average of 27°C throughout the year, rising to about 31°C as a maximum. The standard of the beaches is rated as very high compared with other beaches in this part of Spain and they are looked after properly and cleaned and maintained throughout the year.

La Cala has quite a number of expats living here, so you won’t feel as if you are in a foreign country where you don’t know anyone, as you will soon get to make some new friends. Of course, another big advantage is that although you have a home in the sun, the cost of living is a lot less than in the UK so every pound goes that much further.

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Torrevieja Could Be A Good Choice For A Retirement Home

Torrevieja in Spain is around 36 kilometres from Murcia Airport and is about 30 minutes’ drive away. In the other direction it is 50 kilometres from Alicante Airport. The city is right on the coast and has over 20 kilometres of beautiful white sandy beaches with lifeguards, children’s play areas, showers, first aid posts, and toilets. The harbour area is full of restaurants many of them serving fresh fish which is straight off the fishing boats.

Torrevieja literally translates as Torre Vieja, which means the Old Tower, and used to be a tiny fishing village (like many of the towns on the Costa Blanca) but it has witnessed a huge explosion in size and population in recent times – most of which is from the huge numbers of people moving to Torrevieja from Northern Europe or buying holiday homes in the area. 

The town is surrounded by salt lakes which are a natural habitat for many birds, such as the Greater Flamingo and Montagu’s Harrier. The salt is also commercially extracted and is one of the town’s main industries.

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Sucina Is A Great Little Village In Southern Spain

Sucina in Spain is about ten kilometres from the Mediterranean and is a lovely little village of about 2,000 people. It is only about a 40 minute drive to Torrevieja where there is a weekly market every Friday. The town has over 100 bars and has some great restaurants down by the harbour where there are some superb fish restaurants which use fish straight off the fishing boats. There are plenty of shops in Torrevieja, which is a town of around 85,000 people and caters for every taste.

Back in Sucina, of the 2,000 or so people who live there, around 300 of them are British, so if you are looking for Sucina villas for sale with a view to either using one as a holiday home and renting it out for the rest of the year, or are considering one as a retirement home, and you like the peace and quiet of the countryside, then you will have plenty of company. It is not essential to speak Spanish, although it is a fairly easy language to learn and it is well worth doing. Most of the local shops can cope with English speakers, as can the cafes and bars, but the local community centre does free Spanish lessons, and the locals come there to learn English too!

There are also two golf courses very close to Sucina, so if you are a golfer you are well catered for. In addition, there are several restaurants so if you don’t feel like cooking you can dine out instead. Restaurant La Vista is open 7 days a week and does tapas from 1.00pm to 5.30 pm, and then a la carte from 7.00pm to 10.30pm and doesn’t close until midnight. There is also TexMex which is off the Square and offers Mexican food, as you might guess.

There is a social club in the village which is open on Friday nights and is for the English, and you can join in a quiz and play card games. The local Spanish residents are really very friendly and in addition there is a bar in the village where the locals and the English meet up for a chat.