November 10, 2013

This week we head to Granada to chat to Piet and Sandra Quekel. Together, Piet and Sandra own and manage an estate agent business in Granada. They also live in one of the fabulous cave houses that Granada is so well known for.

When did you move to Spain, and where from?
We came 10 years ago independantly from each other to Spain, Piet comes from the south of the Netherlands, and Sandra from the east of the Netherlands.

Who came with you?
Piet came alone, Sandra with a family of 3.

Where in Spain do you live now?
We live in a cave house in Huescar, Granada province.

Do you work? As what?
We work as Real Estate agents with our own agency, besides that we have a bed and breakfast in another cave house.

How are you with speaking Spanish?
Fluent

If you could change one thing about Spain… what would that be?
A longer summer

What is the best thing about living in Spain?
The weather and the way of live, much less stressy than the rest of europe.

What is your favourite Spanish dish?
Everything from the grill, and all fresh

What is the predominant nationality of your friends in Spain?
Spanish, English, Belgian, Dutch

If you won the Euromilliones – would you still live where you currently are?
Yes, but with something else elsewhere warm to escape the winter.

If a movie was made about your life – who would play you?
Can we play ourselves?

If you had to describe yourself as a sandwich filling… what would you be?
Something warm, a hamburger probably

Right – now is the chance to tell us all about your business/website/blog if you have one (or more of course). Go for your life!

We have a niche market here with the caves on the Altiplano de Granada. And we run this small real estate business plus bed and breakfast from our own caves. Websites are: http://www.casascosas.com (website currently down) and http://www.cuevas-spain.com

These manmade caves are unknown, but make fantastic homes in the spanish climate. And they are cheap to get and easy to maintain. Most important is choosing the right cave, and that is where we help. We have clients from all over europe and we speak 5 lenguages. (though french is only minimal, we manage. English, Spanish, German and Dutch are fluent.

At the moment we start promoting the casascocas website, it has an approach that clients can place an offer on a property before coming over. On the other hand it opens the possibility to start selling ´cosas´as well. The cuevas-spain website is the website where we started with and well known already.

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