Although the USA is well over twice the size of Europe, much interest from UK property investors is centred on Florida, home of the Everglades, Orlando, Key West, Miami and Disney World.
This state has a tropical climate and an extensive coastline that passes from the Atlantic via the Florida Straights into the Gulf of Mexico. Florida is a popular holiday and retirement destination with good...
Spain, which once prospered by excluding other European powers from its New World riches, is now a leading member of the EU.
Situated in south west Europe, it has borders with France (from which it is separated by the Pyrenees) and Portugal, and a coastline that stretches either side of Portugal from the Bay of Biscay in the north to the Mediterranean in the south.
Important industrial...
At the heart of the EU, Germany is a federal republic comprising sixteen \'Bundeslander\' (states). Re-united in 1990 after forty five years of separation into the Soviet controlled East Germany and West Germany, the country has borders with France, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland.
It also has a North Sea coastline to the north...
A founder member of the EU, France is the UK\'s nearest European neighbour and a popular holiday destination and place for investment.
It\'s coastline borders the English Channel, Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean while it has land borders with Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, and Spain.
The country is divided into twenty two regions and ninety six departments. Alsace,...
Egypt, land of Pyramids and Pharos, lays across the Mediterranean and Red Seas, linking Africa, the Middle East, south Asia and Europe. Four times the size of the United Kingdom, it has borders with Libya, Sudan, the Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan, and faces Saudi Arabia across the Gulf of Aqaba.
The strategically important Suez Canal is to the north, running between Suez and Port Said, while...
Canada is one of the largest countries in the world, whose territory stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans and from its border of over five thousand miles with America to the Arctic Circle. Three quarters of the population lives within 200 miles of the US border.
Much influenced by its economic ties with America, Canada also has historical links to the United Kingdon and to...
Part of the Balkan Peninsular, Bulgaria lies at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. It is a small country, and has a varied and picturesque landscape that embraces ski resorts and a Black sea coastline stretching approximately two hundred miles between Romania and Turkey.
Bulgaria has land borders with Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, and...
Cyprus, the third largest Mediterranean island, is a former British colony which gained independence in 1960.
Differences between its ethnic Greek and Turkish communities subsequently led to the separation of the island between the Turkish north and Southern Greek. A UN buffer zone now separates the two halves of the island.
A UN attempt to rejoin the island was rejected by Greek...
Independent since 1975, the Cape Verde islands were once a Portuguese colony. To be found in the North Atlantic, our hundred and fifty miles off the Senegal coast, they are the most westerly point of Africa.
Cape Verde comprises ten principal volcanic islands and five smaller, largely uninhabited, the whole divided in two groups - the Ilhas do Sotavento the leeward group and the Ilhas do...
A Peterborough landlord was fined and landed with a repair bill after ignoring council demands for improvements to his rental property.
Maroof Hussain, of Windmill Street, Millfield, Peterborough, was found guilty in his absence and fined 435 pounds on each of two offences of failing to comply with notices issued by Peterborough City Council. He was also ordered to pay the city council\'s...
