Here in Turre we are very lucky we are within minutes of both the beach at places like Mojacar Playa or the mountains  

Taken yesterday 22/08/18 in a self store warehouse in Baza Spain  just after we unloaded 

#Tips for #Spain There are 3 main types of police in Spain Local #polica formed by the local council
As their name suggests they patrol the local area they are full police officers
@guardiacivil
Among the duties of the Guardiacivil is policing area with less than 25000 people, the road network, ports and airports 
#062 And @policia
(national police ) in towns and cities with over 25000 people the national police are also one of the places where you can go to get your NIE sorted out
In an emergency they can be reached on the multi lingual 112 emergency number
It is worth knowing and having to hand your Gps coordinates to make it easier and quicker for the emergency services to find you as Spanish postcodes are huge

1 The 2nd largest Geode in the world can be found near Pulpi

2 (Spain in general) Spain has the 2nd largest high speed rail network in the World Second only to China
3 Their is a 24 hour long  indoor football  tournament in august in the Town of Albox
4 With Fortified towns , watch towers , castles (Castillo) and the likes there are just shy of 3000 castle in Spain
5 Spain Is home to the worlds oldest operational lighthouse built about 1900 years ago by the Romans
Called the tower of Hercules in la  Coruña
Circa 90 ad
6 Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe only Switzerland is more mountainous
7 Spain is one of Europe's largest producers of olive oil
8 The only Spanish province which is both on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic is Andalusia
9 The Spanish navy is one of the oldest navies in the world and the 4th Biggest
10 The European Rabbit is naturally native to Spain and Portugal ( the Iberian peninsula ) but is found thought out Europe and was introduced to England by the Romans
11 Olives are not native to the Americas. Spanish colonists brought the olive to the New World (via Wikipedia ) (We have an olive tree in our Garden here at European relocation services )
12 Albox name comes from Arabic and means Tower
13 There are about 1700 types of Spiders in Spain 
14 There are 13 types of Snakes in Spain of which 5 are poisonous
15 Spain's boarder with Portugal is  1,224 km long
16 And Spain's boarder with Andorra is 63km
17 And the Boarder it shares with France is 646km
18 Spain is home to Wolfs in the Shape of the Iberian wolf which has an estimated population of only 2000 in both Spain and Portugal



19  This is called the Osburne bull there are about 97 of them in Spain originally erected in 1956, by the Osburne Sherry company

Tips to keep flies away
One of the few downsides of live in Spain is that old pest that is the fly/musca
But I have come across a list of plants you can put near doors and windows to keep them out
Sweet Basil
Bay Laurel
Lavender (one of my favorite plants)
Tansy
Wormwood
Citronella grass also know as Lemon grass