Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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

Friday, April 23, 2010

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/









Thursday, April 22, 2010

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!


ha ha !

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!



Thursday, April 15, 2010

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!

Monday, April 12, 2010

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!