Apartments for rent in Almeria

My family have two gorgeous apartments available for short or long term rent in Almeria ... if you fancy a holiday or are looking for a pad while working in the area or a great retirement option then read on ....!


lounge flat 5 / glassed and open terrace in both

Fully fitted kitchen and bathrooms in both

* lounge flat 4

*master bedroom flat 4

*Twin bedroom flat 5

The apartments are situated in a recently built residential complex in the beautiful La Envia Golf.

Each apartment is 82 meters2 in total with an additional 7 meters2 of outside terrace.

The terrace is split into two, with a larger 20 meters glassed off to create a lovely sunny year round dinning space. This can of course be opened up in the summer making one huge terrace.

Each Apartment features:

2 x bedrooms ( one double and one twin )

One fully equipted bathroom

Fully equiped kitchen with all utensils, microwave, washing machine and dishwasher

Living room with dining area - Flat screen TV. DVD player in Apt 5, music system in Apt 4 ADSL available in the building. Sky Box in Apt 5 will soon be connected to the community.

Fully furnished and decorated to a high standard

Air conditioning and Heating.

Glassed terrace and open terrace with beautiful views

24h security and the option of a garage if you rent or bring a car

Avaliable for weekly, monthly or long term rent. Renters are also permitted to use the golf course.

Surrounding Area :

The apartments are situated close to Ameria. Approx 2 kms from the lovely tourist town Aguadulce y Roquetas del Mar. Here you will find idyllic beaches, a palm lined promenade and a lovely harbour as well as many shops and restaurants. There is a Carrefour supermarket close to the apartments as well as a huge shopping complex nearby. There is also a wonderful 5 star hotel and spa near the apartments. For those considering a longer term let there are both well reputed Spanish and British schools in the area and a new health center has recently opened avaliable for both residents and tourists....

Rental Prices: ( per apartment )

550 euros per month

300 euros per week

500 euros per month for long term

50 euro per month for the garage ( optional )

Contact :

To find out more or to book please contact

Jacqueline frobert-2@hotmail.com

952 660 261

or Sam samantha@indybel.com

Reiny Season

It must be reiny season ...!

I say this because toddler harnesses and reins suddenly seem to be the 'hot' baby product in Spain of the moment!

I used reins with my toddler and found them to be really useful. There is a period when excitable toddlers find out they can just about walk ( or stumble ) and start to really explore the world. This is great fun for them but when you are out and about it can be a worry for parents ... you need to be able to keep a strong hold on your toddler especially in busy places such as supermarkets, parks and markets ... This is where the simple baby harness comes into it's own. It allows you to keep a hold of your toddler while also giving them freedom to explore their surroundings safely.

In Spain there is quite a negative attitude to reins from the more traditional parents. I think they see them as unneccesary and uncomfortable. Yet while they might have been right in more innocent times, the truth is that in this day and age, as a parent, I want to be able to really keep a hold of my child. It's another interesting culteral difference between Spanish and British parents. That said we are selling reins to the Spanish too, so attitudes are starting to change ...

For parents who don't want to restrict their children too obviously we have recently found a brilliant invention. It's called My First Back Pack and is a toddler backpack which also functions as a harness for parents to hold onto .... toddlers love wearing them and hardly realise they attached to their parents! They also look really cute ....

To buy our Sure Steps conventional toddler reins or My First Backpack here in Spain check out http://www.indybel.com/

Mother's Day in Spain

Don't forget that Sunday 2nd May is Mother's Day in Spain ..... http://www.indybel.com/ have lots of lovely goodies to spoil mums ...

If you belong to a bi or multi culteral family it seems like it's always Mother's or Father's Day! ... I'm British and my husband is French so along with the Spanish customs there always seems to be something to celebrate. Thank goodness there is no Daughter's Day ... oh hang on ....... that's everyday!


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TV dinners!

I always keep an eye out for TV shows about Spain and Southern Spain in particualar ... usually these end up being the standard Brits emigrate to Spain disaster stories but now and again something a little more unusual pops up ... last night by accident I tuned into Jamie does Andalusia ... the latest in a series about Jamie Oliver cooking his away around Europe ... or is it the World.

Anyway the Andalusia show was as expected strikingly beautiful to watch ... and very interesting too .... Jamie cooked a massive paella in the world's biggest paella dish to feed an entire village, visited a female nunnery where the nuns are supercooks but can't be seen, so they sell their food via a revolving hole in the wall and cooked up delicious chorizo and bean dishes in the middle of idylic looking sunflower filled fields. Being a gazpacho lover though the highlight for me was when he made a very easy and yummy looking gazpacho .... It did look so easy and so healthily enticing that I have decided that this summer I will not be buying my gazpacho ready made in the supermarket but creating it in my own kitchen!

It seems that to create the perfect gazpacho you really only need juicy and ripe tomatoes ( peeled ) ... a cucumber ( peeled ) ... red and green peppers ... tons of olive oil and a little sherry vinegar ... garlic and stale bread soaked in water. You bung the whole lot on top of some ice in a jug and ... blend .... yummy ... I shall be trying it asap and will let you know how it goes!

Top tips from the show ... to be authentic always serve your gazpacho in a glass as that's what the Spanish do ... ( here on the costa del sol it seems to come in bowls with gallons of toppings ... whoops! ) and add Sherry vinegar to ... EVERYTHING!

Baby Ballet in Fuengirola

I've been hunting around for ages now for a ballet class for my 3 year old mini dancer to be .... ( actually I think she just really wants a tutu ) ... It's quite hard finding the right class as some are at inconvienient times, some are too far away and some are just too expensive.

I've finally found a class that is five minutes from our house. It's Baby Ballet at the International Theatre School in Fuengirola. My daughter is very very excited about her trail class this Saturday ... I'll report back next week with a review!

Indybel Spring Newsletter ....

The Indybel Spring Newsletter is now avaliable ... containing all the latest pregnancy and baby products in Spain news, special offers for subscribers and up and coming baby events. To subscribe to our newsletter simply visit http://www.indybel.com/ and subscribe in the box at the bottom of the News section ....

New Product Arrival - Sock On's

It's an age old problem....

....When they get to a certain age babies love to pull their socks off .... I'm not sure why they find this so much fun. I think partly because it's something they can grab without moving and have total control of and partly because it really infuriates parents! The reason for this is mainly that as a parent it means you are forever putting socks back on, losing socks and finding your baby with cold feet ....

Happily there is a solution though! The Sock on! Invented by a mother ( of course ) the Sock On is a handy little sock holder oner which keeps the sock on the baby so the baby can't take it off ...

It's as simple as that! Indybel now sell Sock On's in Spain ... visit http://www.indybel.com/ to find out more and buy while stocks last!

Paloma Park Benalmadena

Yesterday we spent a really nice few hours at Paloma Park in Benalmadena. I've always loved this park as it reminds me slightly of when I used to live in London round the corner from Hyde Park.

Paloma Park is great for the kids, there is a big pond where you can feed the ducks and swans ( although these creatures are so massively spoilt for choice that they now tend to turn their noses up at anything but the very best bread! ) chickens and rabbits wonder freely around and are tame enough to feed. There are also other animals in enclosures, a cactus park, another pond where you can remote control steer little boats, and most recently you can hire multi person bikes and little cars for the kids. There is also a massive play area which has recently been added to and improved upon, esp the bit for toddlers ... before it was okay, now it is really nice with new slides, a little house, a sand pit and climbing frames ...
There are cafes in the park and area's for picnic's as well as toilets. So it really is a great park for a day out.

I'm also a fan of Paloma Park because you can take dog's there ( on a lead ) We recently went to Battery Park in Torremolinos with our dog and were a bit cross ( to put it politely ) when we got there and found big signs barring dogs. As any dog lover and dog owner will tell you, a walk in the park with your beloved dog is one of life's pleasures and so it annoys me that a park doesn't allow dogs ... As long as owners keep their pets on a lead and clear up the mess then what's the problem?

Luckily there is no such silliness at Paloma where dog's are welcomed, even by the chickens and rabbits! Which really does make it my number one park for both children and animals ...

Home Office

You have to be really organised when working from home. Because I'm also a full time mum I have to work in the living room to be around my daughter and laptop ... I'm a woman so I find multi tasking quite fun. A normal afternoon for me would be playing and watching TV with my daughter, organising her supper, snacks and bath and all the time keeping an eye on the orders, replying to emails, writing this blog and updating other sites and so on ....

After a year and a half of working on the dinning room table with the paperwork starting to spill over into the rest of the room I decided it was high time I got a desk. So on Saturday we popped into Ikea in Malaga ( I love this shop ) and I became the proud owner of a rather cool little desk ... the colours go perfectly with our room and other furniture and it's not too big so fits perfectly in the corner of our room. The desk cost around 70 euros and comes in a variety of colours ... there are also lots of other designs in the store too ....

It did take me a good few hours to assemble, but I enjoy DIY and so it was fun. I did have a bit of an argument with one of the drawers but we got there eventually ....

And so Monday morning and I am sitting happily and calmly at my desk in the corner of the lounge with everything nicely organised in my new draws and cupboards and as I result I am feeling highly motivated workwise too!

Magic Flowerpot Hairbrush

I always thought that like in the movies my daughter and I would share wonderful moments when I would lovingly brush her hair and she'd exclaim in delight about her gorgeous curls and we'd all be happy ....

I have since found out that real life is not like the movies. My daughter, now 3, has never liked having her hair brushed. She also doesn't like having her hair washed, dried or in fact touched. This is a bit of a shame as she has ( like me ) naturally curly and rather unruly hair .... the type that is prone to looking messy and windswept, even if you've actually done nothing but sit in front of the TV. On lazy days I'm content not to go through the 3 hour fight to brush her hair, but even one day of not brushing means ( due to her hair type ) endless tangles and even matting.

Last summer we discovered a miracle ... the Tangle Teezer. You may remember this from Dragon's Den. It's a detangling hairbrush ... it doesn't actually look like it does much, but one run through even the most tangled hair and you really notice the difference. It's a great invention. We bought a bright pink one and although my daughter still doesn't like it much, on the occassions when I can get it through her hair it really makes a difference.

I was listening to the radio the other day and the interviewer happened to be interviewing the guy who invented the Tangle Teezer. I was intrigued to hear him say he'd invented a special Tangle Teezer for little girls, one that they'd love using .... ( suddenly this seems like the most obvious invention in the world, can't believe I didn't do it myself! ) and so was just browsing his site to look at it. It's called Magic Flowerpot and looks really sweet. I'm thinking I might make the £12.99 ( plus postage to Spain! ) investment .... but only if my daughter promises faithfully to brush her hair by herself or let me brush her hair and then we can all live happily ever after ....

Hmmm .... maybe real life's not like that either!

Indybel Interview on Expatica.com

There are several websites that we follow with interest as they provide invaluable information for those living in Spain ..... one of my favourites is http://www.expatica.com/ a huge website with information for expats living all over Europe and dedicated sections for each Country and each topic.



It's quite exciting therefore that this month Indybel are the subject of Expatica's new series of interviews featuring Expat entrepreneurs! You can read the full article by clicking here. Plus take a look at the many other interviews on the site too ... they are valuable info for those thinking of moving to Spain or who might have a question about living or working abroad!