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We going to be staying at Hotel Cala Font in Salou for 9 days beginning on Saturday May 4th and we would like to know where we can meet the local English speaking people and engage in any organised social activities such as charity nights, quizzes, tennis etc. We have never been to Tarragona province before, but we do live 9 months of the year in Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, and we spend summers in Kent. Any local pointers would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from you Salou residents. Adrian & Antonia

Hi all 

We are a couple moving to the area for the summer July August 2024 . We both have jobs but we are finding accommodation very very expensive. If anyone knows of a reasonably price apartment ( 1000€) per month that would be wonderful.We are very excited to tip our feet into the water with a view to living here full time Irish ☘️ weather and all that 

Thank you in advance 

Maz and John 🌸🌸🌸

Hi thank you for welcoming us to the forum . We are Maz and John and we will be moving to the area for the summer so exciting!!! I am looking for work partime in the area and also I would love to volunteer in the local Caritas charity store . 
I’ll keep you posted on our progress 🌸🌸🌸

Hello I am looking to go to salou for a holiday in October 2024. Can you tell me where I could have dialysis in salou

My family of 5 have just moved here and my 2 older children (teenagers) are wanting to find away of making friends I haven’t got schools sorted yet so they have no social time at the moment 

Hi all i worked in Salou in 84/85 at martins bar trying to contact anyone who remembers me or anyone who worked ther at the same time had a fantasic time love Salou .Dave the head lol anyone from tramps diso/papillions ,thanks in advance  good old 80s 

Aparthotel needed for 4 nights July 9-13 for 2 adults Salou area 

Help I’ve booked accommodation for 6 female people but an extra child decided to join us I now need somewhere cheap as cheap for I extra adult + 13 ye old 

Long shot, I know. A suitcase was removed from my car by the Regina hotel on 28/10. I only realized when we arrived in Perpignan 😭

It's a green IT 10kg sized case. Hard to remember exactly what was in it, but I've listed a few definites below as they were new purchases. 

New Hoka Clifton 9 in black (size 11.5)

New Grey Lacoste sweater M

New Under armour girls Mac in turquoise (Size 8)

Any help in sourcing it's whereabouts would be greatly appreciated 

There are over 500,000 UK Ex-pats living in France and Spain many of whom are retired old age pensioners.

About 10 years ago Iain Duncan Smith called for wealthy pensioners who do not need benefit payments such as winter fuel allowance and free bus passes benefit payments should voluntarily hand back the money to the government. I would enjoy reading the audited statistics of the money repaid.

Shock horror when all UK Ex-Pats living in France and Spain had their Winter Fuel Allowance cancelled.

The then Work and Pensions Secretary explained that calculations were made on official temperature figures for each country, based on a five month winter that represents the coldest time of the year in the UK, matching existing criteria used by the government for other forms of cold weather payment.

In response to questions about recognising the variance of temperatures depending on altitude and region, Mr Duncan Smith said the government had looked at a system of weighting temperatures for areas with heavy populations of British pensioners, as opposed to calculating using figures for each whole country. But as the highest concentrations of British pensioners were often found in the warmer parts of European countries, it would have meant at least as many countries would be excluded as under the adopted scheme, if not more.

On the complaint that warmer overseas territories of countries like France, Spain and Portugal had skewed the results for British pensioners in those countries, the Work Minister said that European law would have to be changed for France’s Caribbean islands, Spain’s Canary Islands and Portugal’s Atlantic islands not to be included in the calculations.

The changes implemented including the system of weighting meant that the measurement of temperature was altered to suit the new criteria thus denying UK Ex-Pat pensioners the Winter Fuel Allowance

For those of us UK Ex-pats that live full-time in France and Spain

we know just how cold the winter months may be.

Please view my UK government petition

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/647060

 to try and reinstate our much needed benefit to keep warm in winter and please inform others that may support the petition.