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Forum: Spain

Dec 30th 2018, 5:16 pm

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Anyone in Villanueva de Tapia/Iznájar area?

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Anyone in Villanueva de Tapia/Iznájar area?

Thanks for your reply. We arrived at the house in Villanueva de Tapia this evening and are looking forward to tomorrow night - apparently all the single folk in the village read out poems to each...

Forum: Spain

Dec 28th 2018, 5:30 pm

Replies: 2

Anyone in Villanueva de Tapia/Iznájar area?

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Posted By CarolineNick

Anyone in Villanueva de Tapia/Iznájar area?

Hi, we bought a house in Villanueva de Tapia in May this year. We’re using it as a holiday home just now and plan to retire there in 2022. Until we retire, we’re trying to get over as much as we can...

Forum: Spain

Dec 28th 2018, 4:32 pm

Replies: 36

Simple SetUp Home WiFi in Barcelona - Advice Needed

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Simple SetUp Home WiFi in Barcelona - Advice Needed

Hi, we have a house in Andalucía (bought only in May this year for retirement in 2022) and use a UK mobile internet dongle from Three whenever we’re there. We get, I think, 20GB per month for £15 and...

Forum: Spain

Apr 4th 2018, 10:31 pm

Replies: 9

Learning Spanish

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Learning Spanish

I studied Spanish at university in the early 80s and then, towards the end of the 90s, spent a short period of time in South America teaching English........ I was able to speak Spanish much better...

Forum: Spain

Apr 4th 2018, 10:12 pm

Replies: 2

Eurona

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Eurona

Hi Lincoln

Thanks for that. There seem to be a few shops in and around Málaga and, although we’re a little bit of a drive away, it probably makes sense to arrange things with someone face-to-face...

Forum: Spain

Apr 1st 2018, 8:28 am

Replies: 2

Eurona

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Posted By CarolineNick

Eurona

Hi, we’ve been on the websites of various providers over the past week or so and have also been looking at posts related to wifi/internet/tv on the forum.

We’ve put the postcode in and neither...

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 10:14 pm

Replies: 18

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Views: 5,211

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Thanks for the reply. That’s useful and I think I’ll have a look at the app.

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 8:34 pm

Replies: 18

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Hi Rosemary, thanks for replying so quickly. Caroline.

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 8:26 pm

Replies: 18

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Hi Snikpoh

I see you’re “retired and loving it” and I’m a little bit jealous as we’re still doing the daily slog for another few years yet!

We’re at the stage of having had an offer accepted...

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 8:35 am

Replies: 18

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Hi, thanks for both the replies......... it may be that I'm getting confused with the residence card. I guess we should buy wallets for the passports and NIE sheet otherwise who knows how tatty...

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 7:23 am

Replies: 23

Bad at languages

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Bad at languages

Hi there

You’re probably not “bad” at languages (you seem pretty good with English!); you’re just not used to hearing and speaking Spanish....... and I’m genuinely not trying to be facetious here....

Forum: Spain

Mar 21st 2018, 7:00 am

Replies: 18

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Views: 5,211

Posted By CarolineNick

NIE - is it a card or a piece of paper?

Hi there

We’re in the process of obtaining our NIE (lawyer is dealing with it via a Power of Attorney). I’ve read on a few sites that it’s a piece of paper that you need to use along with your...

Forum: Spain

Mar 15th 2018, 10:53 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

It’s in Villanueva de Tapia, about 50 miles north of Málaga. Do you know the area?

Forum: Spain

Mar 15th 2018, 9:55 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Thanks to everyone. Just to update........ we engaged a firm of solicitors with offices in Spain and the UK and have just today agreed a price with the seller of one of the houses we viewed last week...

Forum: Spain

Mar 12th 2018, 9:41 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Thanks, Kieron. I’m glad I started this thread as I’d been thinking that an established, solidly built house that’s part of a terrace would throw up fewer issues than something newer. But a few...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 11:48 pm

Replies: 16

First Posts, HELP! WHAT DO I DO? etc. etc.

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Posted By CarolineNick

Re: First Posts, HELP! WHAT DO I DO? etc. etc.

Hi lurchio

I kinda get your point but, as one of the other posters says, the search facility isn’t always straightforward. I came across this thread, for example, whilst searching for “Andalucía”....

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 11:28 pm

Replies: 6

Spanish Language Apps

Views: 1,191

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Spanish Language Apps

I did Rosetta Stone (the £199 one) and found it to be very useful, but I think you’d probably have to have a basic grounding in Spanish. I taught English in Ecuador once upon a time - I was by no...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 11:06 pm

Replies: 0

Inland southern Andalucía

Views: 690

Posted By CarolineNick

Inland southern Andalucía

Hi there

We’re thinking about buying a townhouse in southern inland Andalucía - round about the Iznájar/Archidona area. Initially this would be as a holiday home as we’re both still working...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 10:45 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

That sounds lovely! I think if we were moving full-time then we might have opted for something a bit further north or nearer the coast. We’re working here until late 2022 and it’ll just initially be...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 9:49 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Hi, we were over last week and the temperatures were pretty low, not to mention five consecutive days of rain - in March! We haven’t been in winter but have been watching the temperatures...........

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 7:29 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Andalucía. We’ve been looking at the area round about Rute, Iznájar, Archidona......... basically inland up to about an hour or so from Malaga airport. We fly from Glasgow so flights to other...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 6:42 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Thanks everyone for your help........ I think what people are saying about getting a good lawyer is sound advice and definitely something we’re taking on board. We’ve emailed a firm of solicitors...

Forum: Spain

Mar 11th 2018, 8:41 am

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Re: Getting a survey

Thanks, Rosemary, for the welcome and to Smithy for the reply.

We’ll certainly have a look at the website you’ve mentioned...... I’m super cautious as I lost money on a flat I sold in 1991 (at a...

Forum: Spain

Mar 10th 2018, 10:26 pm

Replies: 24

Getting a survey

Views: 2,871

Posted By CarolineNick

Getting a survey

Hi there

We’ve been thinking about buying a house in Spain for when we retire in four years but, in the meantime, we’d use it for holidays for ourselves and our family. We’ve seen something we...

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