We had scoured the internet for many months deciding on which area of spain we would prefer to purchase initially a holiday home with a view to moving over permanently in around two years time.
 
As my husband is a keen fisherman, we decided to visit the Costa Dorada and, in particular the town near to the River Ebro, Tortosa and surrounding villages.  After contacting several agencies who specialised in that area, we decided to visit with K&S Overseas Properties.  Their service was friendly, helpful and definitely no-pressure, which would have made us run a mile!!

K&S Overseas Properties found us some accommodation for our visit - a lovely country house, which was just the kind of property we were looking for... just a shame it wasn't up for sale!

After having the first day to settle ourselves in, we arranged to visit the surrounding area with one of the staff of K&S Overseas Properties and see a selection of properties … they insisted that they would show us no more than four properties a day.  At the time I thought this was a little impractical as we both wanted to see as much as possible during our weeks stay, however, I now understand that this is the most sensible thing to do, otherwise your head can become 'saturated' with an overload of properties you have viewed.  As it was, we took a video camera with us and recorded each property so that at night we could look back on the three or four properties and make notes. How I would have got on if we had viewed any more in a day, I don't know! 
Now for the area...it is to die for!!  Contrary to any remarks, there is not a lot of difference in the weather here to in the Costa Blanca.  Maybe a couple of degrees lower, but nothing to shout home about!  We explored some of Tortosa on foot, which is definitely a beautiful and historic town, set alongside the River Ebro. Just to lean against the rails on the bridge going over the Ebro and watch the trout jumping in the air was enough for my husband to get excited!

Travelling out of the town was another experience.  Passing through villages such as Benefallet, Tiveneys, both alongside the River Ebro to Torrent and Alfara de Carles, on the backdrop of the Els Ports mountain range, you feel you have been transported to a different world.  Full of greenery and spectacular scenery, with streams around every corner and leafy tree lined lanes, yet only 30 minutes to the coast.  What more could you want??  K&S Overseas Properties introduced us to several people who had already purchased in this area and gave us frank advice as to what to look out for when purchasing over in Spain - advice we greatly appreciated. 

In fact, we decided on the first property we viewed with K&S Overseas Properties  … a lovely house just a ten minute drive to Tortosa.  It needed some tlc, but not major work - it was the situation that we both fell in love with, the Els Ports mountains in the background, we had every kind of fruit tree you could think of in our spacious garden and ample room to put in a swimming pool, when we finally retire to Spain.  The property was, we felt, very good value for money and we could not have asked for a better service from K&S Overseas Properties, in fact, even after a year of owning our home in the sun, when we are over, we still reguarly keep in contact with the staff there, meeting for coffees or something a little stronger!  Now we can't wait to move over here permanently!

Jim and Gaynor from Birmingham