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I live-work in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. I am a chef-owner of the Waterside restaurant. It is a job that requires many hours of hard work taking me away from the quality of family life.

For some time I have been looking for a second home in the UK for myself and family to relax away from the stressful working environment.

Well this is my story of how I purchased a “to die for” second home on the Costa Calida mainland Spain.

I would never have imagined looking overseas to buy, with language barriers, unfamiliar legal systems, let alone what happens to your deposit when you change it to a different currency and send it down a unfamiliar wire to somewhere who knows who!

Last November when the restaurant was off season, I arranged a family holiday via the Owners Direct website to a villa on the Mar Menor golf resort in the Murcia region of Spain.

We were met at the local airport by Angela in person and taken to our rented villa, 20mins drive away. Angela showed us around, everything was clean, well ...
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