What is Dénia all about?
Let's find out!
Dénia is brilliant, I mean it's a great place to live, a great place to work and
a great place to come on holiday as well.
I'm English and very single.
Thank you!
The questions are about social security and income tax.
This is really, really fun!
There is no need for me to go to Florida anymore, because there is everything here.
Stephanie, how did it all come about?
1997 the Marina was founded and the main idea was just to make a small port with just one or two buildings
but in the end they realized that we needed many more facilities, so that's why we built a bigger Marina with all
the services for our clients also because we are very close to the Balearic Islands.
Do you have facilities for all size of boats here?
Well, we have the smallest moorings which are for 12 metre boats and the largest moorings
are for 50 to 60 metre boats.
And you have lots of different restaurants; variety here is huge.
Yes, it's quite international and every restaurant has a different range.
We have everything really.
Lots of nautical companies as well.
Yes, they are here especially to service all the boats.
This marina has 400 moorings.
What about Dénia?
What can a young person like you do here?
Especially if you speak your languages it's quite easy to find a job because
you've got many foreign people living here.
You've got the beaches, you've got many boat activities, you've got the mountain.
I'll show you one of the pontoons which we have finger print recognition.
It's quite a secure system.
This is one of the pontoons where we have our moorings with the boats and…
Let me stop you right there.
Mooring?
Explain for those who have no idea what that is.
Mooring is just a parking space for a boat.
All right.
And depending on the size…
So that would be...
This is one mooring exactly with its electricity and water meter.
Our captain Gabriel Martinez, he has a good vision for the future and he has a lot of experience.
There is a lot more people that come to Dénia to enjoy the vacation here.
And we think that will go up.
We just want people to be happy at Marina de Dénia and give them all the services we can.
Show me Dénia please.
Well, this side is Dénia, the Marina is here and then this is Dénia.
Here we have the castle, this is the main street and the old town and here are the beaches.
Nadja, you are German, what are you doing here in Dénia?
I was a bit bored in Germany and so I just decided to go...
to different place and I found Dénia.
Now, I opened up this salon and I like it.
I stayed.
It's a nice town, nice people...
nice weather.
I do perms.
I do colours; I do highlights.
Haircuts for men, women, children.
This is the electrically heated haircut scissor, it seals the ends and the hair is not going to dry out
and it keeps them healthier.
My dad is also working here —he is doing the medical pedicure.
I love to help people who have problems, and I went into this and I have a lot of experience over the 30 years.
And you are play in the band as well?
Yes, I do, I'm a drummer in the OK band and we do a lot of charities.
Here is the big German community and we can meet in bars and there is a lot of live music.
We meet a bunch of people, English people, German people, Swiss people and its fun.
OK, great…
Hello.
Hello Natalia, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
We are here since 5 years and we are used car dealer for our International customers.
We have all different kinds of cars, all brands.
We trade in cars from our customers; we help finding or searching a car
and within the last 5 years we had more than 1,500 cars here.
Buying and selling cars is not as easy as in other countries.
Why?
The paper work, the law.
And I know from a lot of customers, they had very bad experience in the past with whatever.
Car dealers, private sellers, so we care for everything and we make sure that it's a safe deal.
I was working 20 years for BMW and I learnt my business in Germany and I just do the same here.
And this is our indoor showroom.
Here we have all more valuable cars, the convertibles which we like to show with an open roof.
And we have our own mechanics, we test all the cars, we make the maintenance, we have only cars
with guaranteed kilometres.
We work with Carfax.
Which is a system we can check through the chassis number the history of the car.
You see the number of owners, we see the real mileage because we had a lot of customers they came to us and
asked for trade in with their car and we couldn't take it because the milage was much higher than they thought.
I was always working a lot of time in Germany, I never was a home.
So we decided to create a family here
and the kids went to school
and the university and everything and yeah...
So, we are here more than 15 years already.
Is Dénia a good place to live?
It's a beautiful place to live.
Dénia has a very special atmosphere, it's not only about the climate but it's very international.
We have here all different nations.
We have a lot of possibilities for your spare time.
You are close to the sea, sailing, the mountains.
We have adventure parks close in Benidorm.
We are in between Valencia and Alicante in the very middle so that's easy to reach two airports to get
International flights.
They are two very interesting cities with a big culture.
There is no need for me to go to Florida anymore because there is everything here.
When you come for retirement it's very easy because you will find people from new nation everywhere,
but they don't adjust very easy when they have to work here in Spain because it's a different reality.
You cannot start a business here and think it works like at home, they are coming from tax office, the town hall,
the license things.
You have to inform yourself very good.
You have to have a lot of endurance.
I was born in Pakistan and basically we moved to Denmark when I was a child.
My family and the children were born there.
And what do you like about Dénia?
At the beginning I was kind of upset because it's a small town but after a while I felt that it's a beautiful place
and we have a lot of tourists.
This year we had more than 50,000 people coming to Dénia.
People come here because there is fun in Dénia.
We have very good pastas, salads and 27 different pizzas.
Next door we have Turkish kebab that is one of the best known in Dénia.
So where is the passion for food coming from? Did you do it before?
Yes, I have had a restaurant in Denmark.
We have the third business, we work with MoneyGram, RIA and Money Trans, 3 different companies.
We transfer and receive the money from all over the world and we send it.
As you can see over there, this is the Central Bus Station, all 3 shops are in front of the bus stops.
Thank you.
Mark, Philip tell us what are you doing here?
Primary reason for being here is to offer the expat community a facility to buy high end, quality items.
We are Costa Blanca's premier antique shop and auction house.
Primarily we were a consignment store and we also offer the confidential service for dependants of
deceased estates and find that's a core part of our business.
Obviously being able to trade and sell on the items at the market value.
We provide this in the store and during online auctions.
And also we sell on 3 different websites, we hold auctions at approximately every 2 months.
Today we have an auction at 4 o'clock, we have over 450 lots, one of the star lots being a Picasso painting,
we also have 3 Dali paintings and some other really, really good items.
What are the prices for the items that you have?
We offer a whole cross section.
Items for example for a euro to high end articles such as the Picasso here
that we are expecting to get about to get about 30.000 for today.
Between us I think we've been involved in the business over 25 years.
My family was in it, so I sort of grew up in it.
Myself and Mark met 5 or 6 years ago on the Costa Blanca.
Doing what we do, going to the rastros, going to the antique shops, bumping into each other and finding
out that we were competition.
So we merged ourselves together.
Great!
My wife is Spanish, she is from Madrid, but has lived in Dénia most of her life.
We met in Dublin, Ireland and moved back over to Dénia and we've been here since.
So you are Irish, you are English.
I'm English and very single.
Hello, how are you?
I came to Dénia in 1981.
How was it then?
The harbour, the terminal which goes to Ibiza and the islands wasn't there.
And also the sport harbour, la Marina de Dénia wasn't there.
The entrance into Dénia that wasn't there either.
I can't even think how we got into Dénia.
Other things which you would wonder why in more than 30 haven't changed yeah, but that's another story.
Técnicos Asociados Consulting is a service office.
What we do is, we give legal and tax advice all around the property business.
For buying property, selling property and legal issues this is what we look after so that the house owner can
simply enjoy the stay here in Dénia and surroundings.
What is CEDMA?
CEDMA in the first place stands for Cercle Empresarial de la Marina Alta.
This is a federation of business associations and we cover the whole area not only Dénia, it's Marina Alta.
Sonja, why would a foreign business join CEDMA?
I would recommend any foreign or Spanish firm or business people to join CEDMA, or one of
the associations, because it will always give them advice, be updated in legal advice.
Have the continuous education to networking, lots of networking, learn to know people and finally to really
be integrated into the local society.
When foreign people come to live here, they have always the same questions.
The questions are about social security and the questions are about income tax, so I mean we are
the experts Tecnicos Asociados Consulting, they only have to come and visit us.
Perfect, see you later then.
See you…
Tell me about the history of this shop.
Okay, my father started it 1975
and now we have 3 shops.
We work him, his wife and me.
Okay, and you will take over the tradition?
We hope so, yes.
You buy this pendant.
You open it like this and then you can put inside the different coins.
That's very original.
Yes, different colors, stones, pearls.
We do repairs.
See you later, bye.
Elena when did you start this business?
We opened M.K. Toldos in 2011.
We have International clients and we offer free estimates.
We come to your house, measure and give you the offer.
Hello guys, how are you?
We came on holidays here last year and we loved the place.
Why don't we go to Spain?
Build up something new here, winter is cold in Switzerland and we came here, we were looking
for a house and then we found this place.
On these tracks it's possible to play on 18 holes.
And you have people of all ages coming here?
Yeah, we have children from about 5 years up to older people 70, 75.
It's fun for everybody, from young to old.
It's a good exercise for concentration, hand eye coordination and passion.
The most important thing is to have fun.
To be outside, to meet other people.
I started to play competitions and training, meeting people.
For 30 years I've been playing mini golf.
Temperatures are great in winter, it's warm.
In summer you have really warm temperature, the sea is close, it's a fantastic place to live.
Tell me a little bit about your restaurant.
We've been open since 2005.
Now, we are one of the longest running restaurants in the Marina.
Christmas is over, so we do need to take the decorations down.
We do a menu of the day which we try to use seasonal fruits and vegetables at a very reasonable price,
hence the reason why we are usually so busy.
It's a beautiful day today, in the middle of January and yet we've had 18 degrees, people on our terrace,
people inside.
What more could you want?
Latitude is in Marina de Dénia.
What we are going to do now, we are going to enjoy Jet Ski on the other side of the port in Marina El Portet.
Hello, how are you?
Alvaro, what are you doing here?
We have different brands.
We are dealing Yamaha, we have rental of Jet Skies, we do tours with Jet Skies, quad, kayaks,
bikes, a lot of things.
This is fun.
And you have been here for 15 years?
Yes, we started with quads and now we follow with more activities, we do buggies, tours
in Las Rotas with kayaks, Jet Skies.
It's fantastic.
But, you are from Valencia.
Yes.
Why did you move to Dénia?
I like it, it's fantastic.
You have this sea, the mountains.
What do you want more?
Nice food.
This is for the Jet Ski.
Explain to me how this works please.
Okay, this is the key for the Jet Ski.
We connect it here.
This is the start, stop and gas.
It's very easy and here is the break and reverse.
This is really, really fun.
Put the belt on and let's go!
Veronica, what is Bona Platja?
Bona Platja is a family restaurant.
We have been here more than 50 years.
We have a large selection of Mediterranean food.
Yvonne, you are German.
What are you doing here in Dénia?
I came here when I was 12 years old with my parents because of work they had better chance to work here
and open a restaurant and I had to go to school here and join Spanish people.
We do have some German dishes, but normally we have everything International from steaks to fish.
We are specialized in flammkuchen, it's very thin, so it's a kind of pizza the German way.
And light, very light…
Yes.
I'm the waitress here, my mom is in the kitchen and my dad is behind the bar, serving drinks and also serving
food if he needs to help.
Life in Germany is a bit more stressed because everyone goes his way like all straight ahead.
Over here it's more cozy.
Sandra, tell me, how did you get to Dénia?
My parents came to Dénia when I was a child, so I live here for 30 years.
Okay, and where is the passion for dentistry coming from?
It's a family tradition.
But, you are not a dentist?
No, I'm not a dentist, I'm only the owner.
I like my job.
What do you offer here?
We offer all treatments from children to old persons, from implants, prosthetic, and normal treatments;
all around what needs to be done.
How are you different than other clinics?
We have our own laboratory and that's why the prosthetic treatments go little bit quicker
and when people are here on holidays we can make a quick treatment.
Bay Radio is the biggest English radio station in Spain and we've been broadcasting over the last 12 years
and we've been growing bigger and bigger every year.
We now broadcast all the way from Dénia all the way down to Cartagena along the Mediterranean coast.
We've got amazing range of DJs and presenters and a great team behind us producing some of the best radio
around here really.
Our demographic is for ages 45 plus and we found that that's really, really working for us.
We work with some of the biggest brands who advertise with Bay Radio and use us to get the message out there.
Where is the future of Bay Radio?
I've got some great plans for Bay Radio for this year.
I just wanted it to get bigger and better, we are going to be expanding even further.
I can't give you many details at the moment, but we are going to be getting bigger and expanding our coverage
area throughout Spain.
And you have been here for how many years?
I started here in 2005, the first day the Bay Radio started.
And why is Dénia a place to live and visit?
Dénia is brilliant, it's a great place to live, a great place to work and a great place to come on holiday as well.
It's got everything.
It's got great restaurants, it's got night life, great shops and it's also got a little bit of culture as well.
It's got amazing churches, Castle as well to visit and lots of different things if you are into sports and hiking
and different things.
Dénia has got everything.
It's brilliant.
What have we got here in wintertime?
We still have got fantastic weather, the roads are quieter which is nice but there is still lots of lovely things to do
and lots of sports and things to do, restaurants to go to and still a great vibe during the winter
as well as the summer months.
What is it that is so special about this place?
Irish theatre?
Yes, it's an Irish pub, gin club, we have all types of gin, we have lot of types of different beers,
International beers and we have live music every weekend, Friday and Saturday.
We have karaoke on Thursdays too which is fun.
It's really good fun.
We have events too, we have suppers, we have dinners, we prepare all sorts of celebrations;
whatever you really need.
It's really nice.
Are you open all year long?
Yes…
So even though you are Spanish you have this amazing British accent, how come?
Well, I was born in Dénia, but my parents are English.
My dad came from Birmingham when he was 14 years old and he started living in Benidorm
and he came over to Dénia.
So, I was really born here, I spoke Spanish at school and with my friends and then at home I've always spoken
English, so that's why my English accent.
And you can practice with all the British people here?
Yes, with all the British, with the Dutch too, we speak in English with them, yes.
Tell us about these candles, it's beautiful.
What is happening here?
These candles are here, because today is la Nit de la Llum which means the Night of the Light
and it's on all night, it's really nice, all in the center of Dénia.
What is Dorian gray?
Dorian Gray is a night icon in Dénia.
And we are in the center of Dénia, just next door to the town hall.
So you party with the Mayor?
Yes, yes…
Claudio, how come you are here from Argentina?
This place is very sunny.
I like the people that live here.
Also I think, it's a good place to offer the Argentinian food because we are unique here in Dénia.
This is Margarita, my partner, she is the best.
We use for the parillada argentina a different kind of meat, we select this meat from Ávila,
it's 100% organic meat.
Vegetarians, do you have something to eat here?
We have pizza, we have the vegetarian parillada.
There are different kinds of vegetables and we make barbecue.
Bye, bye Natalia
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