Alicante-Spain.com Newsletter No. 9 - 14. October 2005

Current subscribers: 1406

Dear Alicante and Costa Blanca Fan,

After many months you might not have heard from us, as due to some health issues in our family we had to stop working on the website. (At this stage thanks to all of you for the "get well soon mails" - it really helped.)

Back to normal now - we did some changes and updates to the website. Some of it is still in the process, but within this newsletter we will keep you posted on where we did improvements.

Table of contents:

- Alicante-Spain.com Website upgrade

- Who are we? The story of alicante-spain.com

- Alicante Flight Page Updated

- For those of you who own property around the Costa Blanca

Alicante-Spain.com Website Upgrade

Within the next months we plan to rework parts of the alicante-spain website. As far as today, we added some pictures and information to the Javea Section here - with a photos and map of Javea page here.

Behind the scene we are currently working on an article about Elche - the wonderful world capital of Palm Trees. We should have that article available by next months.

Of concern to us is the increasing problems with our newsletter software (which we bought just in 2004). We are looking into a new host, as many people complained that they did not receive the newsletter.

Who are we? The (hi) story of alicante-spain.com

From time to time we get emails on who we are and what we do, so we decided to add the history and story of this website alicante-spain.com for all of you who like to know.

When my spanish wife and I started this website in March 2003, we just wanted to create an information source for family, friends and business clients who visit us here. At that time it contained basic information about the Alicante Airport and how to get around the city. After some months on the web, we go more and more emails about how to get to Benidorm, and where to stay in Denia or Torrevieja and so on. Answering the emails is time consuming, so we ... please read on further here.

Alicante Flight Page Updated

With changes and various new airlines coming in for the winter schedule, we updated the Alicante Flights section.

- Germanwings offers in the winter season three flights per week to Alicante

- Flybe flying to Alicante from Norwich

- Monarch Airlines fly from Birmingham to Alicante

- thomsonfly to Alicante from Coventry and Doncaster

Find the entire list here...

For those of you who own property around the Costa Blanca

Found a very good article about the Valencia Spain land grab law

As aboutproperty.co.uk covers a very interesting aspect for valencian property owners. The article is titled "Tax loopholes warning" and covers the problem with the "not so famous" Valencia land grab law which allows developers to compulsorily purchase land from property owners at prices often below market value.

A very informative article - aboutproperty.co.uk/locations/abroad/property-in-spain-tax-loophole-warning-$15063262.htm