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Forum: Spain
May 28th 2026, 3:08 am
Replies: 3
Views: 325
Posted By Lynn R

New UK/EU deal on food exports

Hopefully this new deal, once finalised, will mean greater availability of UK food products (although it may be too much to hope for that they'll get any cheaper) again in Spain, and help British...
Forum: Spain
May 19th 2026, 12:02 am
Replies: 129
Views: 13,727
Posted By Lynn R

Re: EES & ETIAS update and explanation

I arrived back at Málaga at 9.30 last night and there were no queues at all either at the EES machines, the egates or the manual booths (I was one of the first passengers off the plane, having been...
Forum: Spain
May 14th 2026, 5:15 am
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

We posted ours back last December, just ordinary mail not signed for, and got a message from the Passport Office 3 days later confirming they had been received and our applications were being...
Forum: Spain
May 13th 2026, 8:53 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

Spanish passports are issued on the spot at Policia Nacional stations, aren't they? So as well as applicants' identity being able to be verified in person (a good thing imo), old passports don't...
Forum: Spain
May 13th 2026, 5:56 am
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

I do, we got them from the Post Office,didn't we? But they were only valid for one year so hardly surprising they were cheaper. I got one for my first ever foreign holiday, when I went to Tenerife...
Forum: Spain
May 13th 2026, 4:37 am
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

It's one of the few things in life that's actually cheaper now than it used to be! Mind you I think it could be cheaper still if they didn't send your old passport back in a separate delivery (also...
Forum: Spain
May 13th 2026, 3:37 am
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

Don't remember how long that stage took, Rosemary, but when we did ours last December we received our new passports just 11 days after we posted the old ones back to them.
Forum: Spain
May 11th 2026, 7:30 pm
Replies: 129
Views: 13,727
Posted By Lynn R

Re: EES & ETIAS update and explanation

I am flying out of Malaga to the Uk this morning and there were no queues at all, obviously a quiet time. I just followed the line marked Non EU Manual Cabins and walked straight up to booth (3 were...
Forum: Spain
Apr 26th 2026, 9:47 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 391
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Get paid to recycle

I'm glad to see that glass bottles aren't included initially - it will put off the day we have to do the walk of shame to Mercadona with the empty wine bottles!

Do you have to take the plastic...
Forum: Spain
Apr 26th 2026, 2:30 am
Replies: 34
Views: 3,355
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Supermarket shopping habits

A new branch of Consum opened in our town a few days ago. I called in to have a look and was quite impressed, it's large, well laid out with plenty of space between the shelving units and seems to...
Forum: Spain
Apr 26th 2026, 12:59 am
Replies: 13
Views: 725
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Spain doing more to stop spam calls

I got another text this week supposedly about a suspicious transaction on my (non-existent) Santander account. This time they'd upped the ante though, and the transaction amount was €8,456! I...
Forum: Spain
Apr 22nd 2026, 7:48 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,106
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Sabadell account holders beware!

I'm looking around at alternatives but all the ones which advertise no charges seem to be online accounts only and I do want to be able to visit a physical branch if a problem arises without being...
Forum: Spain
Apr 21st 2026, 1:31 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,106
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Sabadell account holders beware!

As I said earlier it's in the Digital Documentation Section (not messages), sub-section Correspondence, the title of the correspondence is shown as Sight Account and dated 17th April 2026. I can't...
Forum: Spain
Apr 20th 2026, 11:54 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,106
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Sabadell account holders beware!

But the conditions for getting the whole €60 per quarter reimbursed will, from 24 June, be to etither have a minimum balance of €25k IN UNITS (not cash in a current account) or have 3 insurance...
Forum: Spain
Apr 20th 2026, 7:53 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,106
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Sabadell account holders beware!

It's in the digital documentation section, sub-section Correspondence. My husband and I both received it.
Forum: Spain
Apr 18th 2026, 8:11 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 725
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Spain doing more to stop spam calls

Yes, I got that one too. By the way, have you seen the message in the Correspondence section about yet more changes they are making to account charges?
Forum: Spain
Apr 18th 2026, 7:42 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 725
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Spain doing more to stop spam calls

Good. I signed up to Lista Robinson years ago but it didn't seem to do any good, especially in stopping calls from energy providers. Just these last few weeks they seem to have almost stopped,...
Forum: Spain
Apr 17th 2026, 5:14 am
Replies: 44
Views: 2,474
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Is 75000 eur enough for a flat and leasehold cafe

The number of bars in the large town I live in (not a holiday resort) is far smaller than it was when we arrived 20 years ago, and many of the premises they occupied have remained empty since they...
Forum: Spain
Apr 16th 2026, 3:18 am
Replies: 44
Views: 2,474
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Is 75000 eur enough for a flat and leasehold cafe

Many of us are retired and bought our properties as cas buyers when we moved here. Speaking personally, I bought a small house and used it as a holiday home for a few years until I was sure that I...
Forum: Spain
Apr 15th 2026, 5:33 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 2,474
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Is 75000 eur enough for a flat and leasehold cafe

The cheapest studio apartment currently advertised for sale in my area (5km inland from the coast, East of Malaga, is priced at €115,000, and don't forget you would need to find 10% of the purchase...
Forum: Spain
Apr 15th 2026, 5:16 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 10,699
Posted By Lynn R

Re: UK Passport Renewal

Same for us, Bob. We had to have a few attempts at taking each other's photo before the system gave us a "good" result, the corridors and landings of our building have all white walls so we stood...
Forum: Portugal
Apr 12th 2026, 7:25 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 1,725
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Lagos to Porto. Car or Train?

If you're not subject to time constraints, have you considered breaking the journey up by staying overnight in Lisbon and seeing a bit of the city? Since we retired we always try to do that when...
Forum: Spain
Apr 9th 2026, 3:04 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,349
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Spain's propertry price surge

Your mention of Polish buyers reminded me about a report I'd read a few months ago about a group of 40 Polish families who had formed a kind of co-operative to buy the majority of the apartments in a...
Forum: Spain
Apr 8th 2026, 8:02 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,349
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Spain's propertry price surge

They really are. I posted this in another thread a couple of months ago:-

"It isn't getting any easier for Spanish people to buy a property, that's for sure. A report just published shows that...
Forum: Spain
Apr 5th 2026, 11:46 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 943
Posted By Lynn R

Re: Skipton International Accounts

Sorry to hear that. I haven't had any problems with them so far, in fact I've found them easy to contact and helpful when I have, and interest has been paid on the due date. It seems to be...
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