Life in Culebrón

We were in a restaurant last week. The food was reasonable enough as was the price. At first the service was good but, despite repeated effo...

There are lots of English language Facebook pages dedicated to living in Spain and aimed at Britons. There are Citizens Advice pages, Civil ...

Maggie and I went for our new TIE cards, Tarjeta de Identidad de Extranjero, Foreigner's Identity Card, today. The idea of this entry...

In Spain you have to carry ID at all times. For Spanish nationals they have an identity card, the DNI and for foreigners there is a TIE, ...

I didn't sleep particularly well last night. I kept waking up with some half formed Spanish phrase rolling around the empty quarters o...

I was grumbling about being chased by the tax office here who say I didn't pay enough tax in 2014. I was particularly galled that I h...

I've got a bit of a tax problem. It started just before the Easter break. The Spanish tax people seem to think that I lied in my 2014 ...

They say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. To be honest I don't think it compares to, for instance, l...

Going into a bank in Spain is often the proverbial pain in whatchamacallit. I don't have to do it often. Cash comes from holes in the ...

Two or three people have expressed surprise that I haven't written anything about Catalonia. There are a couple of reasons. One is...

The Post Office sends me a text message when there is something that needs signing for waiting in our post box. This is often good. If w...

My draft tax declaration became available online the other day. Because I was self employed for a while in the 2015 tax year I'm going...

I was reading the news from the local town hall. There was information about the new hunting season. I read, for instance, that from 19 Ju...

On the second day I lived here, that is the day after the MGB, Mary the cat and I arrived in Spain to join Maggie, I went to the Town Hall...

The British Embassy has a Facebook page called Brits Living in Spain . Lots of their posts are pretty good. Today there was one about appl...

I don't think that I have ever missed an opportunity to vote in local, regional or national elections since I turned 18. They've a...

Recently I have had a bit of a spate of sending Mr Angry letters - well emails - to various organisations in Spain. Generally they have be...

We had a will written in the UK years and years ago. A really tall, avuncular chap did it for us. His office was like something from Dicken...

   Santiago Alcanda a radio 3 presenter       I have quite a long Christmas break. I fancied getting away from work and the usual altern...