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My Road to Ciudad Patricia by KJ Rowlinson


I had a yen to move to Spain for years, but I finally moved to Spain at the ripe age of 62 years. I bought a house and lived in it for over 13 years. I bought an apartment in Cabo Roig, near Torrevieja, in 2011, and moved to it when I sold my house, also near Torrevieja. I planned to live in the apartment in Cabo Roig because of a Medical Centre across the road. But as I was on my own, I decided I would move to Ciudad Patricia.


I was so relieved of my decision to go to Ciudad Patricia, as I recently spent time in hospital. The hospital doctor told me I had two aneurysms. I’m physically OK, but my speech has been affected following the attacks.


I fell in love with Ciudad Patricia when Amanda showed me around and finally bought in August 2015. I love swimming, and I can swim every day in the heated indoor pool or in the pool outside.


Ciudad Patricia is welcoming, the people are very friendly. I’ve already joined the Shortmat Bowls and go every Monday morning. As the indoor pool is open during the winter months, I go swimming every day. I’ve line-danced for years, so I was pleased to see that line-dancing was at Hotel Nereo on a Thursday morning. The entertainment and the restaurant is brilliant, so I shouldn’t be bored!


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I write under my proper name KJ Rollinson. The KJ stands for Kathleen June, although I prefer to be called Kathy.


Montgo Chorale’s annual Christmas Concert


This year’s concert breaks new ground in that it contains more than just the traditional Christmas Carols which we have been singing and enjoying for the past decade. Time for a change!


Our programme will include two short works besides some carols by the choir, plus the well-known ones in which we invite the audience to participate. Both works are new to us as a choir, and very likely are new to the majority of the audience. They are both by English composers. We will open the concert with George Malcolm’s Mass At The Crib - a comparatively unknown mass but beautifully written; short, unassuming and melodic. Malcolm held the post of organist and choir director in Westminster Cathedral for many years. He was better-known as a harpsichordist than a composer. The other work is Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia On Christmas Carols - an early work, in which he cleverly blends his love of traditional English folk music with traditional carols. The baritone soloist in this work is John Edwards who sang as one of our soloists five years ago. Gordon Lawson is directing his last Christmas concert with the chorale, and Heather Butcher is our accompanist. The concert will take place in the Fishermen’s Church in Jávea Port at 4.30pm on Sunday 11th December. We sincerely hope that our normal capacity audience will enjoy the new-style programme. As usual, entry is free but we shall be collecting donations as you leave. The money raised will go to support the work of the local Caritas.


I wrote a trilogy a few years ago, ‘Fallyn and the Dragons’, ‘Fallyn in the Forbidden Land’, and ‘Fallyn and the Sea Dragons’, and I’m busy editing it to incorporate all three books in one, called ‘Dragons’ Trilogy’. If you like a fantasy book, suitable for all ages, this is one for you.


I’ve written children’s books - ‘A Twist of Fairy Tales’, (you can see a video on YouTube about this book) and ‘Maranda the Mermaid’, (I called the main protagonist Maranda because it reminded of me of the Spanish word for sea – Mar). I’ve also written a murder book ‘The Rode to Justice’, John Rode, first-grade detective, murder stories. My latest book ‘Where Lies my Heart’, winner of the Ian Govan Award, 2015, has several five-stars on Amazon, the highest stars. All my books are available on Amazon. ‘Where Lies My Heart’, and ‘Dragons’ Trilogy’ are published by yours truly, the other books were published by WordPlay Publishing, run by Michael Barton, and by Quirkygirl in Spain.


I hope ‘Dragons’ Trilogy’ will be available on Amazon by Christmas 2016.


To find out more about Ciudad Patricia see the facing page.


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