At the "A Place In The Sun Live Exhibition" last October visitors were asked where it was that they were looking to buy.
Combining the popularity scores with their assessment of what each country has to offer, number 1 for a second year was Spain!
Read the report below.
On Friday night Nigel Page and his partner Justine Laycock from Gloucestershire banked the biggest UK lottery win after scooping half the jackpot in the EuroMillions draw putting them into first place in the National Lottery Rich List, with an amazing £56,008,113.20 jackpot prize.
Meanwhile the other half is believed to have been won in Mojácar where the identity of the winner is still officially a mystery.
Local newspaper "The Reader" has discovered that it appears to be a well known local Mojácar man, originally from an old Turre family and now resident with his wife in Mojácar. The man, a late middle aged father, is well known in the area and comes from a respectable family.
"There was a lot of excitement in their house on Saturday" a neighbor of theirs told "The Reader".
"And later that day we saw a number of men in suits arriving at their home. Shortly afterwards, they left and haven't been seen since". The family have not been seen since Saturday.
Their daughters, who live separately with their own families, also appear to have vanished. At least one of them appears to have requested a leave of absence from their job "for unspecified reasons".
"If it is them, we are delighted" another resident told "The Reader" newspaper. "He has worked very hard all his life and is a good man, a caring father".
The Euromillions lottery is still refusing to say who has won, or even if anyone has come forwards to claim the prize.
Los Tres Reyes - The Three Kings
(4th, 5th & 6th January 2010)
The celebration of The Three Kings in Spain takes place over January 4th, 5th and 6th with the last day being Epiphany, a national holiday.
The children may take letters to the Wise Men at the Ayuntamiento (the Town Hall) on the 4th asking for gifts and explaining why they should have them.
On the evening of 5th January many towns stage a parade of “The Three Kings” through the streets (as seen on the left) with colourful floats and fireworks and the children line the streets to catch boiled sweets thrown to them by Melchior, Caspar, Balthasar and their aids.
The Three Kings then make their way to a presentation of gifts to the children and then it it's “time for bed”!
Tradition has it that the children leave their shoes out for the Kings to leave their presents alongside. However, if the Kings consider that they do not deserve their gifts then they may find their shoes filled with coal.
The Day of the Three Kings is 6th January and the Spanish equivalent of a British Christmas Day. The children will awake to find their presents, the families will gather, attend church and celebrate with much food and drink.
On the morning on the 6th, in Los Gallardos the Three Kings, accompanied by camels, meet at a crossroads in the village, all arriving from different directions (as shown above).
They then proceed to the Plaza to perform a sacramental reenactment.
Los Gallardos also hosts a Medieval Market for the celebrations with arts & crafts stalls, food stalls and entertainment for the children (as shown on the left).