A Small Guide to Torrox by Dorte Holm Jensen - HTML preview

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Making a new life in a place like Andalucia is not easy – unlessyou happen to get your paycheckfrom Northern Europe or bring a pension with you. Anybody who tells you differently is pulling your leg!
The economy isstill very much based on blackmoney and it ishard to make a living working for somebody else asthe majority of workersare underpaid – and if you complain…there isalwayssome other poor bugger ready to workfor the salary you declined - out of sheer need and desperation. (In 2007 33% of the population in Andalucia was not able to make it past the poverty-line – defined by the European Union.)

However, a little tougher than on arrival, I am now doing a travel website FincaFantasticaTravel with my AngloIrish fiancé Edward Kirwan and working as a free lance journalist…so “poco a poco” the light hasstarted to shine at the end of the tunnel.

I do love my life in the Andalusian Mountains and I feel extremely privileged not having to go to work everyday battling through the trafficfrom hell.
Most mornings the sun is shining and most of the year something isin bloom. January and February the Almond tree hasbeautiful white flowersand in May the Jacaranda tree isbrightening up the landscape with rare blue colors and from around the same time the “Queen of the Night”, Dame de Noche, is sending out its seductive smell of perfume from dusk till dawn.

I like the way the smell of fried Sardines mix with salty sea-air on the beach restaurants and I love driving home through the mountains - waiting an eternity for the goats and the three-toothed goat man to clear the road, so I can pass. There is something very real about Andalucia …if not surreal. See You In Torrox.

Education :
• Trained Teacher
• NLP – Practitioner
• Special Teachers

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Writer

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