It’s Easter weekend and we are finally in our new home!
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It’s Easter weekend and we are finally in our new home!
Eeek! We no longer have UK driving licences! Our Spanish driving licences are the last pieces of our official documentation jigsaw. With the imminent threat of Brexit hanging over the expat community, there has been a great deal of chatter about the importance of exchanging UK driving licences for Spanish ones…
We are already well into October and we haven’t really had time to mark the fact that, as of the 1st October, we have been living in Spain for two years! This past twelve months has absolutely flown by, so it is probably time that the fleeting weeks just started to take things a little more calmly…
One of us...ahem... has reached a certain age. Not quite the official age of retirement, but the age when, if you have some sort of private pension, you have the option to do something with it. Following changes in the pension system, as of April 2015, you can access your pension pot and decide what might suit you best as far as future investment is concerned...
Today, we bought a house...!
It is really encouraging to have had so many emails as a result of our last blog post regarding residency in Spain. Many of the questions we have been asked involve reassurances that the move is straightforward and not traumatic. So, by way of an open reply, we would say the following...
We celebrated a little yesterday afternoon as we finally have all the official paperwork we need to legitimately stay in Spain (at least, for the foreseeable future!) For those wishing to do the same, here is guide to help you through the paperwork...
For any of our blog readers who may be getting fed up with endless glimpses of La Vida Loca as provided through our writing, we just wanted to reassure you that life is not all sunshine here...
Today was the day we planned to get our applications sorted for our NIEs, or Número de Identidad de Extranjero: a tax identification number for foreigners, basically.
