Coast of Contacts

It's amazing how small the Costa del Sol is .... and although we all endevour to enter into the spirit of Spanish life, sometimes it's easier to communicate in your own language and so it's not surprising that us Brits tend to come across one and other, sometimes in the most surprising places ...

Today we went on Mijas TV to publicise http://www.indybel.com/ .... the interviewer looked familiar and sure enough it turns out she was a contact I had made back in my local radio days, nearly 3 years ago now ... it was lovely to see her, especially in her new career of TV presenter and she did a great interview with us. We chatted a lot about the set up of the company, how we had met and why we decide to set Indybel up and then about the products. We were really pleased to have the opportunity to showcase the raspberry leaf tea, cuddledry towel, natural nappies and Inch Blue shoes. And luckily even though it was a full moon Lesley didn't have the baby live on air!!!

Another recent acquantiance who has been helping publicise Indybel is Jo from http://nuevaandalucia.blogspot.com/ a very popular site here on the Costa del Sol and throughout Spain. Now my last dealings with Jo were nearly two years ago when I was newly pregnant and looking for information about being pregnant and giving birth in Spain. I found Jo's site and she'd posted a very frank and honest account of her own experience of giving birth in Spain. I wrote to Jo and she put me in touch with a couple of other pregnant girls. The correspondence between myself and one of these girls kept us going thoughout both our pregnancies and the help and support was invaluable. I hadn't kept in touch with Jo but dropped her a line nearly two years later to tell her about the site and she was at once amazingly supportive and helpful and did a great write up about us on her site.
There are a few of us working mums down here on the coast. Another one is Claire who runs http://www.mumsinspain.com/ a really useful resource for pregnant, new and experienced mums here on the Coast and throughout Spain. Again Claire and her site have been really supportive to us in setting up the business and helping to publicise it. It's great that all us working mums in Spain are sticking together and helping each other out. Maybe we should form some sort of working mums syndicate or support group.

The other day I was scouring the net looking for sites that might be useful to Indybel and came across an old boss I used to work for out here way before my pregnancy and baby days. The job we were both doing was media based, so it was rather bizarre to find out that just like me she had now created a 'baby business' and was distributing baby products out here ...

As I said, it's a small and sometimes rather familiar coast!!!