The Spanish At Their Best

Many, many years ago, just after my love affair with Spain began, I visited Estepona with my family to view investment properties. One of kids slipped in the shower and cut his chin badly enough for it to need stitches. I hadn’t a clue where to go or what to do so I called my friendly estate agent! He came out immediately and drove us to the town’s medical center (every Spanish town has one). As a former rugby player I knew all about casualty departments so I thanked the agent for showing me where it was and said he didn’t need to wait, we could walk home. He gave me a very old fashioned look and I soon found out why. We went in, my stitched up son was seen immediately and within 10 minutes we were on our way home again! Incredible to anyone used to the usual 3 hours + wait in casualty in the UK.

This was my introduction to the Spanish approach to emergencies. Whilst day to day things can be left to “mañana”, when the chips are down all the stops are pulled out. If you have an accident on the road, everyone stops to help, calling for assistance, directing traffic and doing whatever has to be done, whilst hospital emergency departments are exactly that! They aim to treat you and get you on your way as quickly as safely possible, even if, as happened to me once, this means dropping your shorts in a busy room for a quick injection of anti biotics in the bum!

What made me think of this? Well my friends in Spain have been suffering greatly of late with natural disasters of one kind or another; a huge area just behind my old home in Alhaurin el Grande was destroyed by a wild fire whilst the recent rains have caused serious flooding. Summer fires and floods after rain are always going to happen but what matters is the response! The firefighters in particular are amazing. You can see hectares of burnt land but the houses in the middle some how survive because of their skill and expertise. At a time when all the news from Spain is of doom and gloom these natural problems and the reaction to them is a reminder that Spain and Spaniards are at their best in a crisis! They understand what a vecino really is and anyone in trouble can expect help. That's why, no matter how bad things may look, they will turn round.

Can I also add that there are some very nice and talented people in Spain and can I therefore show my appreciation to http://www.facebook.com/Sh7Solutions for allowing me to use some of their photos.

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Marchena, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

Marchena, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

A prosperous, full service town with excellent communications surrounded by rolling agricultural land.

Marchena is a thriving, prosperous, market town in the province of Sevilla just 60 miles from the City of Sevilla and it’s airport whilst Malaga airport and the costa is about 90 minutes away with virtually the whole route on motorways.

The town has the usual long history beginning in Roman times and with buildings remaining from most eras since! Worthy of note however are the preserved remains of the old town walls including the Torre de Oro and Arco de la Rosa Gate. Then there is the parish church of San Juan Bautista and the Plaza Ducal,  a colonnaded square,

Today Marchena offers everything you need for day to day living including Doctors, Dentist, 24 hour Medical Centre, Supermarkets, Banks etc.

Local road communications are excellent with easy access to the nearby A92 Sevilla – Malaga/Granada motorway or, rather further away the A4 Sevilla – Cordoba/Madrid motorway.

 Public transport includes regular, cheap, buses to Sevilla and all points North, South, East and West whilst Marchena railway station gives connections to Seville and Malaga from both of which a there are high speed rail links to Madrid and beyond.

 The town is surrounded by rolling hills and rich agricultural land, La Campiña . The area is also a center for the breeding of Spanish horses and there are many stables in the area. Many of our Marchena houses are in this rolling countryside where you can enjoy country living within minutes of all mod cons.

For me the most eye catching feature of the town are the storks nests! These big birds construct huge nests on the spires and towers of the town and seem oblivious of the human life going on around them.

If you are interested in the Marchena area you should also take a look at these Country Houses in nearby La Puebla de Cazalla.

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Welcome to the new Tickle International Property Blog which I hope you will enjoy and play a part in building with me. It’s a new year and so our website is being updated, they say a change is as good as a rest and so we are changing the look of our website Tickle International Property.

So, to begin with; who is Bill Tickle? (And more to the point is that really his name!)

Bill Tickle, real name William “Bill” Tickle has been dealing in property sales on the Internet since the very early years of the 90’s when people realized the potential and power of Internet advertising and Internet business.

Buying his own first foreign property in the Andalucia region of southern Spain, Bill realized that people buying property abroad wanted something better than just a photograph with a price tag and that the vendors required more than a listing on a website or in a local paper and rely on the off chance that a possible buyer would stumble upon the property and in so doing so, selling it.

Bill Tickle decided to take the property market by the scruff of the neck and offer the vendor a real property service, a great website that is easy to use and can be seen on all the Internet search engines, special adverts for their individual properties, pro-active sales, genuine interested parties and after sales that are second to none.

For the property purchaser, Bill has an extensive list of real bargain properties, a complete portfolio that is of genuine sale properties; help with legal and financial matters, information on local areas, after sales help with such things as removals, renovation and building work and much more besides.

It is said that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences in any person’s life, imagine then the stress involved in moving to another country and one with different a language. No worries, Tickle International Property are able and willing to ensure a smooth transition from one property to the other and from country to the next, we have staff that will be of considerable help to you.

Please take your time and visit our website Tickle International Property and see what properties are on offer, if you don’t see the property you want, let us know and we will be happy to find it for you. After all, the definition of ‘Quality’ is ‘Conforming to customer requirements’ and that is exactly what we aim to do.

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