I would also love this. Is this something that could be put on the events calendar. I certainly would appreciate this but have no idea where to find this info

There must be someone out there that knows the dates, wake up Quesada and help us out please

If you do can you let me know also, so many times I get caught out, I live in Los Balcones, Torrevieja

Many thanks

It would be helpful to appeal to someone from the Rojales area about this, maybe the town hall could help.

I think Quesada fiesta starts the first weekend in August. Rojales is the first, I think it is last weekend in June. Party in the park at Recorral this weekend, so if you live close then expect no sleep, music don't usually stop til 5 am

List of Fiestas and dates

Hi All
regarding finding out about fiests dates within the area please click on this link for local and not so local fiestas. I hope this helps

http://alicante.fiestas.net/english/?where=benijofar-937

Hi Try www.fiestas.net, and its in English as well.
Try not to visit Lorca in Murcia at the moment, there was a serious 5.4 earthquake Wed afternoon, 8 people killed and lots of destruction.

Hi the three most important fiestas are 15th of May, San Isidro large event held in the Recorral park, people set off on a pilgrimage from the Church in the Town at approx. 8.30 am and walk up to the parkwell worth a visit.
Then the 29th of June is the feast of St Peter the Apostle, patron of Rojales the Moors and Christians are centred on this date.
Then on the 7th of October is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary more a series of religious processions than an excuse for a party.

Hi Karen,
There are quite a few expats living in Albetera. I have been several times and its a lovely Spanish town, which has several schools. You are obviously further inland than Almoradi and Daya Nueva, that means more distance to travel to the beaches and the bus service is not as good as Almoradi. You will most certainly require a car to get around. Hope this gives you a small insight into the town. Having said that the best way to check any area out is to spend some time there and then you can make an informed decision on whether its for your family or not.

Hi - When we moved over to Spain, 12 years ago, we moved to the Country - Crevillente. It was lovely but too quiet for us, so we moved up here to La Marina urb. There are all Nationalities that live here and lots of families. We like it here because the urbanisation stays open all year (a lot of other places tend to close). It takes about 25 minutes from Alicante Airport to La Marina urb. Hope that helps a bit. Siesta time now !! Perhaps other people could post their views to help you. Bye for now x

I used to live in Almoradi, which is a Town, it has over 21,000 residents and only a small majority of them are British. It used to be about 1,700. There are good schools there but, If you can't speak Spanish, you have to take an interpretor if you go to the Doctors. Its quite a way to Alicante Airport along the AP7. From La Marina to Alicante is only about 25 mins in the car. You can catch a bus to Alicante from La Marina Village and then a bus to the airport. If you can drive, and have a car, you are much better picking your husband up and dropping him off. Hope this helps. Eve

Hi
We have lived in Spain for 8 years, our children were 4 and 8 when we moved they went straight inot a Spanish school with no other english children, it was hard for them at the time but now they speak good spanish and all of their friends are spanish.

We were going to move to la marina and went to look at the school, it was made of porta cabins and when I asked the teacher when a proper building was going to be built, she replied there were no plans to build one, also we did notice that the Enlish kids seemed to be sperate from the Spanish kids in the play ground.
It was a while back when we went so it may be worth you going to the school your self

We also have friends in the town of Sax who moved over with a 13 year old, he had problems with school and now is studying on line.

From what I have seen, the younger the child the easier it is to settle in and make new friends and learn the language.