Bargain apartment in quaint villageSalinas - (Map Location)
Description
This is spacious apartment in located within a few minutes walk to the market, bars, and town pool, handy for everything, plenty of parking outside.
We have 3 bedroom apartment in a quaint village for a bargain price. BALCONY
3 bedrooms, the main very large, lounge, independent kitchen in need of modernisation, bathroom also needing modernisation.
What about Salinas ? I’ve lived close bye 20 years and, although I’ve built up many friends and contacts, you too can soon do this. It’s a small town so local people soon start recognising you and both Spanish and ex pats embrace newcomers and offer help in many areas. The town hall are incredibly helpful and friendly.
There are various facebook groups where you will benefit from the experience of others making your new life easy to adapt to.
I say it’s a small place, but it has the typical local shops for meat or bread etc, wherever possible I like to support the smaller local businesses, and you will find some butcherers, and bakers within the town where you will get a more personal service, and build up a relationship with the owners, staff and clients
Sax is 5 minutes drive away which has a greater selection of supermarkets including Consum that stocks international foods, as well as a fantastic fresh fish counter, vast range of cheeses, vegetables and cured meats, as well as the typical items that you would hope to find in any major supermarket chain.
If you are worried about how you will manage with the Spanish health system, then worry no more. Salinas has its own health centre, and Sax has a 24-hour medical centre with English some speaking doctors and nurses, so does the Elda hospital which is only 15 minute drive away from Salinas. The standard of health care here is excellent.
There is a bus service to Sax where you then have more options to get either a train, tax or bus to other surrounding towns, and Alicante.
Do you like culture, history, art, theatre ? Between Salinas and Sax there is no shortage. Both of the towns have a theatre, and a newly built auditorium.
The locals celebrate their rich culture on many occasions throughout the year, with the pinnacle being the Moors and Christians, something that really needs to be seen to be believed. From the re-enactment of Conquests and Victory celebrations from many years again with blunderbusses and cannons firing in the streets, with all participants in ancient military costume they really are spectacular events. Then there are the “Cuartalillos” which a group owned buildings owned by revellers which are filled with food and drinks and offer a base for the days (and nights) of celebrations. There is no greater honour for members to invite guests to eat and drink with them. For sure at some time you will be invited, just don’t make the mistake of offering to pay, as your hosts will be most disappointed. They save all year to have the privilege of inviting people.
Even after 20 years here I don’t know what all of the fiestas are, it just becomes a part of life to walk down the street one day and find a few hundred people in costume or doing activities which their great grandparents and relatives before then also did.
The carnival is more recent but things like the burial of the Sardines and the day where almost all of the town walks to the mountain to pick a sprig of fresh Rosemary have been done for many years. Suffice to say although you may not know what is quite happening in some of the fiestas, they are always good fun, and nearly always end up with some alcohol consumption !
Speaking of which there are over 50 bars within the two towns towns, many serving tapas food, menus of the day which area aimed at providing hearty food to the workers for exceptional prices. 10 euros can buy a 3-course meal in many places, and often include, beer, wine of coffee. If you ask for wine and they put a bottle on the table…don’t feel you need to drink it.
We pride ourselves on excellent after sales service and will make your move hear straight forward and hassle free. We have all contacts that you will needs.