So truth time how many of you have lived in Marbella and you still haven’t made the effort to learn Spanish and with the modern advances of the internet there really isn’t any excuse.

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So for those of you who want to teach yourself Spanish and take the ball by the horns so to speak I came across this fantastic website click Teach Yourself Spanish to see for yourself. Now being a guy its hard not to be impressed with such a stunning lady as Fiona Gonzales and if I was going to get some advice on how to learn Spanish Id defo be getting it from her but that’s all as she is head over heal in love with her fella (lucky guy) so we will have to stick to Spanish.

For those of you who want to give Fiona a swerve but want easy Spanish lessons then get online find that Spanish course and starting mixing with the local Spanish who are wonderful people by the way.

Loathe her or love her but Angeles Muñoz is certainly doing her best to promote property Costa del Sol & Marbella and it looks like that all her hard work and obvious self promotion is now paying off  with the news that the new owner of Malaga Football Club, Abdullah ben Nasser Al-Thani, has announced that he will invest a large amount of money in a Marbella project.

Boost for Marbella

Al-Thani said after a meeting with Mayor Angeles Muñoz in Marbella that he is in advanced negotiations in a major project in Marbella, related to the tourism industry. He did not reveal exactly what kind of investment project it was.

Angeles Munoz claimed after the reunion with the Qatari sheik that this was wonderful news for the city of Marbella. She looked very excited about the plans, but could not either identify exactly what they were.

Until further information comes from the mayor or the sheik, one can only speculate what the spectacular plans consist of. All we know for know is that the Qatari will invest money into something related with tourism in Marbella. Sundream Blog is very hopeful it will create much needed employment for the citizens of Marbella.

This is great news for Marbella and this blog who has been championing the causes of our wonderful Mayor of Marbella who has been heavily criticized for self promotion and wasting public money. What we pointed out to the idiots who were criticizing her was you only needed one deal like this and you were miles ahead of the game so well done Angeles.

I have recently been looping at other blogs and two blogs stood out as really interesting with the first one being Costa del Sol Life with some very good up to date news but also some very challenging articles and I especially liked the article Sex in Spain.

The second blog is more in keeping with our main real estate business but the Spanish property news blog has some very detailed and up to date Spanish property news that we don’t really cover because as you know we are primarily a Marbella property website.

We hope you find the two new resourced blog useful.

Angeles Munoz the Mayor of Marbella stressed the importance of entrepreneurs in the local economy and the overall growth of the region. She was speaking at a luncheon event hosted on April 7 (Friday) by the Network of Entrepreneurs in Marbella (Red de Emprendedoras de Marbella) in the Hotel Don Pepe on its first anniversary. Her views only reinforce what the Junta de Andalucia are doing with the International Costa del Sol Business awards and support for International entrepreneurs  who want to set up business in Marbella and Andalucia.

Angeles Munoz - Mayor of Marbella

“Entrepreneurs have been absolutely vital in the development of Marbella and I am convinced that they will remain so,” Munoz said, “the local government will encourage them with all necessary requirements.”

Munoz also reminded that “the times of crisis are also times of opportunity”, and emphasized that the approval of Marbella Urban Plan (PGOU) will bring legal certainty and create enormous possibilities for all sectors.

It is to mention here that the City Council has been facilitating business and investments in Marbella by hosting various business seminars and better coordination and interaction between entrepreneurs and local authority. Moreover, the approval of new Urban Plan will certainly create new opportunities with stability

It’s not necessarily something new but it’s good to have the Mayor of Marbella and the Junta de Andalucia singing from the same hymn sheet

Finally Marbella Ayuntamiento gets to work when demolition work starts this week on an illegal development in the Golf Río Real area of Las Chapas, Marbella. The block in question consisted of 34 apartments built by Naviro Inmobiliaria on land designated as a green zone.

With the new PGOU plan for Marbella, this apartment block would not be legalized. What made this block one of the main candidates for demolition was that

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unlike many of the other 18,000 properties with planning issues in Marbella, this development had not been sold nor occupied. This is also the case for the other development that is soon to be knocked down. However the real issue is whether they will ever get as far a demolishing developments where people actually own and live in properties.  Maybe this is just a peace offering to the Junta de Andalucia, only time will tell

Supposedly the development was supposed to have been torn down within 2 months of the order being given, which was in September, by the promoter. Obviously more than 2 months have passed since September, but the order was executed by Naviro, not the Ayuntamineto. The next development that appears to be marked for demolition is Linda Vista, located in San Pedro, a development of six small houses build by Prosavi which was also built on land designated green zone.

The good thing here is that the majority of the properties in Marbella will be legalized, especially those that have been sold to people who bought in good faith and were badly advised.  Time will tell if this is a real attempt to bring everything in line or just touching round the edges.

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This is a clearly important part to keep track of. Security hole as found in Appendix for the browser is of course a great danger, because it can open up your computer for attacks from infected websites. With PSI installed, can you search your computer for problems, and you can also allow the program to be resident in the memory, for tell you when new updates coming. (this article did I found at TkJ, thanks Tommy).

Tutorial Blog has a very good list of 10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page on WordPress blogs that you can do. Here you will find helpful tips on how you can make your comments easier to read, more well-designed and transparent, and more. Sometimes forget you to trim away commentators, which it is a bit unfortunate as it is often among the comments that it really fun with the blog posts will appear.
Titles of the guides Tutorial Blog has gathered are:

1. Display the total amount of comments on your blog.

2. A cleer row of alternating colors for your comments.

3. Giving your Wordpress comments a bit of style.

4. Seperate your comments from trackbacks.

5. Styling your author comments.

6. Numbering your Wordpress comments.

7. Disabling commenting on older posts.

8. Remove the comment section on your blog.

9. Use Twitter graphics in comments.

10. Ajax edit past comments.

There is a tips that I think is smart; Seperate your comments from trtackbacks,

something I probably soon will introduce in Sundream Estate blog. I have written a lot of tips and links for WordPress before. Since I run with WordPress for my blogs,try I to keep a little eye on what happens in the field – for example, the useful additions, and write here in my blog about it.

If you’re like me, who are often online and a member of different networks, I can recommend the excellent service User Name Check. It is a simple but very useful service that allows you to search for available user in a wide range of social networks and Web services. If you, like me, would like to have the same username on all social networks you are a member, so is the User Name Check very good.
The service could not be easier to use. You enter the username you want to check and then wait for it to check availability at each site.
Your username, you may be the same everywhere, but do not forget to have different passwords. A common security issue is to select the same at all sites, which is not particularly smart. In order to manage your different passwords there are several smart freeware, we on Sundream Estate using KeePassword Safe and we are very pleased with keepass