This website is our excuse to throw away most of the paperwork and photos we’ve accumulated and carried around during our nomadic lives and record, for ourselves and our children..

Where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing for the last 80-odd years.

As we have moved about in the UK and overseas, have both married twice and between us have five children who themselves have or are living around the world, we decided to build this website in different sections.

We met through an introductory agency (online dating in 1998 was still new). We fell in love and got married, gave up our jobs (both self-employed) and emigrated to start another chapter of our lives in Spain. This explains our meeting and marriage

Then we have detail our lives since childhood until meeting in 1998 in different sections –   Jo    Tony

Immediately after the marriage, Jo sold her house and we emigrated to Spain.  A year or two later, Tony sold his apartment in Woking and  we purchased an apartment in Jardines del Sol in Javea Port,  the one next to her mum’s, Dorothy’s, apartment.

Initially, when we arrived in Spain we rented a house, Casa Pascana on the Montgo from Maria Teresa, but soon purchased a 150+-year-old finca on Montgo National Park in the village of Jesus Pobre. It was called El Garroferet, apparently, the Carib tree in Valenciano ( actually garroferet) and is algarroba in Spanish- which is a tree at least as old as the house and stands by the front door.

In 2000, being a little bored with not working in business, we started a company, Javea Online, which was an on-line estate agent. It was a big success and working part-time we sold 80 properties with a value of over €36,000,000. Yes 36 million Euros.

After Dorothy’s death, we knocked her apartment and ours into one, as described in Jardines del Sol section of this website.

We have had family and friends visiting us in Spain in the last twenty years

In July 2018 we found in Andalucia a little fellow who we named Angel came into our lives and became an integral part of the family.

We have had travelled extensively through Spain and holidays in the UK, and in many other parts of the world 

Interested in our kids – well no longer kids of course. Our times with them  can be found here  – Jan  –  David – Don – Luke – Diana

In 2023 we received a book from our grandchildren, Harley and Elsie, called ‘From You To Me’ which asked a number of questions about our lives. A blank page for every question. Tony’s writing isn’t so good so he decided it would be easier to add this to our website – just for our two little grandchildren. It turned out to be more questions than we thought!! Please note this is work-in-progress in February 2024.

Most of the photos of us are to be found in other parts of this website. However here are a few special ones