Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:25pm
Cehegin has a population of about 15,000. There are plenty of bars and a few restaurants. Also a few pizza and kebab takeaways. No Indian restaurant :-( There is a selection of shops including several supermarkets, hairdressers etc which you would expect to find in a small-ish town. A museum too. No cinema though.
Local Police station and Guardia Civil station. Bus station. There is a bus between Cehegin and Murcia city, it's many years since I travelled on it, the journey takes an hour and a half or so if I remember correctly.
Road access is excellent, the RM15 is dual carriageway from Murcia city to Caravaca a few km to the west of Cehegin.
Nearest railway station is Calasparra to the north of us. Someone told me it had closed, not sure if that's true.
There is a municipal Sports Centre with indoor pool in the town and playing fields with an outdoor pool (open in the summer) on the outskirts of the town. Also privately run gyms.
Cehegin has a Health Centre with an Urgencia department which is open 24 hours. Doctors there speak very little English. There are several farmacias in the town, one is always open. There are 2 veterinary clinics.
The nearest hospital is at Caravaca. There is an A&E unit there and a good selection of out-patient clinics. For anything specialised/serious there is the Arrixaca Hospital close to Murcia city.
There is a market every Wednesday morning.
The surrounding country is beautiful. Lots of orchards, apricots and peaches. Pine forests. We are sort of in the foothills of the Revolcadores mountains. Quite cold on winter nights, we have central heating and a woodburner. On summer nights we have the windows open and the breezes waft through (we live out in the country). We do not have air conditioning and don't find we need it.
There are quite a few British expats here but they count as a very small percentage of the population. This is a Spanish town, if you don't speak the language, you would be expected to take an interpreter for anything official.
Hope this helps.