By Nicole King

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I started writing for the Euro Weekly News shortly after I moved back down from Madrid to Marbella in 2012. At that time, I was also presenting a radio show, MiMarbella, with the aim of highlight things going on from the Town Hall that we should all be aware of, but aren’t and helping better unite our international community with each other.

By November that same year we launched Marbella Now, with the same objectives and here we are, eleven years on, still at it, but so much as changed.

I remember recording one of the episodes from Puente Romano when I got a phone call to say my daughter had gone into labour. When we moved back down here she was about to go to university and here she was having her first child. I left my guests in charge of recording the rest of the programme and rushed off to the Costa Del Sol Hospital. My first grand-baby is now seven. This week it was my daughter’s second child’s 3rd birthday; my son now also has a 2 1/2-year-old and another on the way.

The year we moved back to Marbella from Madrid I celebrated my 50th birthday at Funny Beach, flaunting a white mini dress and white boots, bopping around handing out coupons for free mojitos to my guests. Now I’m a grandmother, far more interested in a nice cup of tea and a quiet chat and playing with my grandchildren; enjoying life in a whole new light. I was 3 when I first came to Marbella with my parents and grandparents; I moved to Spain still in my teens; so much time has gone by, but it never gets old.