Costa de la Luz

As we have mentioned before we would like to move to the Costa de la Luz, a region in the South of Spain. To be exact we would like to move to the province called Cádiz. There are a lot of beautiful villages over there and the region is not run over by tourists every year. The most important cities, villages and spots for tourists are: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Chipiona, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz (the oldest city of Europe),Chiclana de la Frontera, Conil de la Frontera, Vejer de la Frontera, Los Caños de Meca, Zahara de los Atunes, Bolonia and  Tarifa.

There are also a few nature reserves. The biggest and most important one is National Park Doñana. In this area you can find a lot of birds which stay here during the winter or which are here to rest before they travel onwards to the south or north (depending on the season). Besides this great national park there is also Parque Natural Bahia de Cadiz, this is the bay of Cadiz.

We did not choose this area at random. There was not one area of which we said we definitely wanted to move there. We spend a lot of time on the Internet to find out about all the regions of Spain and besides having a look photos and reading stories about the regions we also had a look at the business opportunities of the different regions. In the end we decided to focus on the Costa de la Luz because it has a lot of nature, was not very known with (foreign) tourists and still offers a lot of opportunities for people to set up a business.

The Spanish tourists already know the area very well and there are quite a lot of Spanish tourists who go to the Cádiz area to enjoy their holidays. It is a great area for all kinds of reasons; you can enjoy a great surf, you can spot whales and dolphins, there are some great golf courses and of course you can taste some great sherry!!

Let's hope our trip to Cádiz confirms our ideas about this region and we hope we will feel right at home at this relatively quiet region.