Welcome to World Watcher, here we are planning to post photos and stories of our up and coming world tour following plans by my wife and myself to make a 'bucket list' and spend at least a year visiting all the places we have always wanted to go but never had the time or the money.
You could say we began our journey 6 years ago when we moved from our native home in the United Kingdom (Aylesbury) to our dream place in the sun on the Costa Blanca, Spain. Mind you the first year or two were far from a dream as we struggled to establish ourselves in a foreign country. I will tell you about a few of our experiences throughout this journey along with new experiences that come along over the ensueing months and years.
You could say we began our journey 6 years ago when we moved from our native home in the United Kingdom (Aylesbury) to our dream place in the sun on the Costa Blanca, Spain. Mind you the first year or two were far from a dream as we struggled to establish ourselves in a foreign country. I will tell you about a few of our experiences throughout this journey along with new experiences that come along over the ensueing months and years.
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Our story really begins in Cabo Roig a beautiful coastal resort located on the Costa Blanca in Spain. It was always my dream to one day move to a sunnier country than my native England, being something of a sun worshipper, and when I met my wife some 7 years ago it turned out that she had always had similar dreams. Following an 'inspection trip' with one of the many Spanish property companies we jumped in with eyes closed and bought a house on the seafront which was some 3 times our proposed budget! A few months later we chose to move to our dream home to live although we kept our little maisonette in Aylesbury as a bolt hole should anything go wrong, in the meantime it was rented out to provide a little much needed income. In March 2003 we set off on our first adventure, by flying out to Alicante, while a friend drove a van with all our worldly possessions.
The dream of a life in the sun was somewhat tempered by some very poor weather, that greeted us, and the news that the UK was having some of its best weather in thirty years didn't help much. Come May the weather improved and the expected sun was hotter than anticipated, our early financial worries were also eased by us both being offered a job by a local property agent, we were subsequently introduced to the Spanish property business and got involved in the rental side of the business which has provided us with a reasonable income right up to this day, when we find ourselves in a position to do some of the many other things that we have dreamt of over the years. A number of deaths in both our families has prodded us into action.
I won't go into a list right now of the places we will be visiting because apart from anything else we haven't actually made a definative list, we just have several places in mind. My wife has always wanted to go on a safari in Africa, and would like to stay in the Treetops Hotel in Kenya, we planned but never made our honeymoon in the Seychelles, so that we also be on our list. Without looking too far afield there are lots of places we would like to visit in Spain itself and also in our native UK, I have always wanted to stay in a pub on the banks of Loch Ness in Scotland, and spend a day looking for the 'monster'. So this is our aim, to visit some new places, take pictures and tell the story here.
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