I would like to know which areas are "not so bad", apart from the beach.

It is now only the end of February, and i left the back door open for 5 minutes to let the dog out, and i have spent most of the afternoon killing the "blu bottle type" flies, i must have killed 25 already and it is only 4.30pm.

If they are this bad now, God help us in the Summer!

We went to a friends BBQ on a finca last year, and you just couldn't use a knife and fork, because you needed one hand to eat and the other to wave about in front of your food, and there was no fish in sight. All the food had to be permanently covered, then you just take what you want and then cover it again.

Somebody didnt put the cover back on the meat Paella, and when we were cleaning up the whole pan could have walked away on it's own, it was alive, i felt like vomitting!

Like Nigel says, the only way to have peaceful, fly free al fresco eating, is to have a completely netted area to sit in.

I am having my whole garden and patio area covered with netting this Summer, in fact as soon as i can. It might not look too pretty, but it makes life a whole lot easier.

Whoever invents a cure for these pests will become a millionaire i'm sure.

By the way, i live in a town in the mountains, not on a finca.

Jools