About 17 years ago, during a short career break, my late wife Irene and I bought the complex known as "Campobello" and moved to Jávea on Spain's Costa Blanca. Equidistant from Valencia and Alicante we were entirely innocent of the fact that we had chosen to come to live in the most outstanding place on Spain's east coast; indeed Jávea, known as The Dawn of Spain (for the rising sun strikes us first in the country) is unquestionably the most up-market resort between Barcelona and the Costa del Sol.