Over the past couple of years, we have had many people pass through the doors of Casa Higueras, and almost every guest has been curious to know how this particular British couple found themselves in Moclín, tucked away in rural Granada Province…
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Over the past couple of years, we have had many people pass through the doors of Casa Higueras, and almost every guest has been curious to know how this particular British couple found themselves in Moclín, tucked away in rural Granada Province…
This time four years ago we were driving through Spain in a huge battered van packed full of our worldly goods and about to arrive at our Spanish home for the next year…
Well, here we are. 31st January 2020 and the date when the United Kingdom officially leaves the European Union. We spent months feeling anxious and angry and uncertain leading up to the General Election in December, following which I, for one, have felt strangely divorced from emotion surrounding the UK’s inevitable departure…
It doesn’t matter where you are, or how idyllic your life might look from the outside, there are times when the travails of life can overcome you…
It’s January - that month of the year that can drag inexorably as we leave Christmas behind and wait with bated breath to see what the new year might have in store for us. It has also become the time of year when we make one of our excursions back to the UK to catch up with family and friends, and do whatever chores might need doing…
Life throws up challenges; it always does, and just because we live in a gorgeous part of the world, and consider ourselves extremely lucky, we still have to make decisions, earn a living and pay the bills…
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…
As we mentioned in an earlier post, we are getting married in September. When we got engaged we were adamant that we wanted to be married under Spanish law as we are now residents. This is how we got on…
Finally, we are making some (not much) progress on the house restoration...
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...
