Daily life & home
Renting with three children: what we checked the second time round
Long-term rentals on the Costa del Sol: contract types, deposit, running costs, urbanización or town centre — and the checklist we now take to every viewing.
Renting, winter, money
Daily life & home
Between the postcard weather and real life sits a damp flat in February and an electricity bill you read twice. This is the unglamorous part — and the one we get asked about most.
Daily life & home
Renting with three children: what we checked the second time round
Long-term rentals on the Costa del Sol: contract types, deposit, running costs, urbanización or town centre — and the checklist we now take to every viewing.
Daily life & home
The winter nobody mentions: cold, damp and unheated
Why the Andalusian winter is harsher indoors than out, what helps against damp and mould, how we heat and what it costs.
Daily life & home
What a family month on the Costa del Sol actually costs
An honest cost breakdown for a family of five on the Costa del Sol: rent, electricity, food, school, car — and what is cheaper or dearer than in northern Europe.