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For those of you who are new to living in Spain, you need to be warned about the dreaded ´puente´ in December. The Puente (meaning ´bridge´ in Spanish) is the term given to the period of time adjoining the 2 Spanish national bank holidays that fall on the 6th and the 8th December.
Most businesses in Spain choose to ´bridge´ the gap in the holidays by adding a 3rd day to the vacation (the 7th), meaning that the country grinds to a standstill for 3 entire days. I can´t quite imagine any other country being able to afford to down tools for 3 days a couple of weeks before Xmas.
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The chances are that you will be lying on a beach on the Costa Blanca or the Costa del Sol for most of the day in 35 degree heat, and probably downing a few sangrias along the way. It sounds idyllic, but please try to drink as much water as possible during the day, otherwise you could end up in a terrible mess.
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You have a lovely home in Britain (or wherever) and you have a holiday home in Spain which you tend to use a few times a year. But now we have a recession on our hands, you are losing interest in the Spanish property and really could actually do without it.
So, you put the Spanish property on the market at what you consider to be an attractive price to sell, but despite plenty of interest and viewings, it´s still unsold. The recession seems to be biting even harder, and you can barely afford to keep your own home, never mind the second home in Spain that you really should never have even bothered about!
Are you tearing your hair out yet?
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Hardly surprising really, is it? Since January 2008, the world has changed for all of us, and a lot of those cheap trips to Spain for us Brits have been shelved whilst we try to balance the books and survive the credit crunch and the recession in general.
