Have you ever considered buying a holiday flat on a sunny island?
If you have more than 300,000EUR to spare, then this may be just the time to do so.
Take Lanzarote, for example. Apparently most people are interested in looking at apartments and studios – priced below 300,000EUR, according to one of the islands largest property portals: Lanzarote Guidebook.
Anything above 300,000EUR is only attracting 13% of enquiries, so if you’re looking for something larger then you are going to be in the minority and may possibly have a good choice of properties available.
Whether you decide to move to the island on a permanent basis, or let out the property as an investment, you might get a better deal here than in some, more expensive European countries.
The secret Indian army of WWII
I’m always fascinated by lost tales from World War II – small unknown facts that have only now been made public.
Such stories are not becoming rare, so I was interested to read this report on a secret army of recruits from India that had trained in Germany.
The information had originally been locked away for 75 years, having been deemed too sensitive to be made public any earlier, but now it has been and it really does stun me as to the countries involved.
When you learn about the British Raj in India and the time around WWII, you learn about the threat from the Japanese army. The thought that Nazi Germany was training Indian recruits in secret is something completely new.
I have certainly never heard of the “Free India Legion” defending the Atlantic Wall before.
I wonder what other secrets are in the archives, waiting to be discovered before the people who were alive then can no longer enlighten us to their personal experiences.
One example are the documents concerning the occupation of the Channel Islands – these were sealed for 100 years!
Will these now be available earlier as well?
I’ll leave the 9th May 2045 in my diary for the moment.
New Blog: Maria Shipley
There is a new blog in the blogosphere this week: Maria Shipley has started a new site at www.maria-shipley.de in which she will be commenting on the latest news and writing a travel blog.
Her first post is about collecting Mermaid’s tears – pieces of glass washed up on beaches around the word.
Her other site, Pension Sprachschule, continues as a source of information for students German, English and other languages.
