What’s it like living in Tarragona? Beth lives in Tarragona, a beautiful city south of Barcelona famous for it’s Roman ruins. As Beth informs me, Tarragona was the Roman capital of Hispania and has some of the best preserved Roman ruins outside of Italy. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Despite all that, you […]
Impressions of Fuengirola
Impressions of Fuengirola We liked Fuengirola. We actually liked it more than either Benalmádena and Torremolinos. In this post I’ll cover: What’s Fuengirola like? Fuengirola feels like a real Spanish town. Although has a good-sized expat population (I’ve read 25% of the population is made up of foreigners) it doesn’t feel overrun by foreigners. Lots […]
“A Place in the Sun” in Mallorca
“A Place in the Sun” in Mallorca. Lucy is an interesting person having lived in many locations around the world. She can add to that a starring role when “A Place in the Sun” decided to film house-hunters in Mallorca. All about Lucy and why she chose to live in Mallorca (a 2nd time!). Name: […]
How to exchange and transfer large sums of money to Spain
How to exchange and transfer large sums of money to Spain I’ve previously mentioned that we use Wise to transfer money from back home (Canada in our case) to Spain. That’s for “pocket money”, enough to pay rent, groceries, etc. And you save a lot of money using Wise over traditional bank transfers. I wrote […]
Finding an apartment in Granada. Things learned
Finding an apartment in Granada. Things learned We’ve found an apartment in Granada! But it wasn’t easy. In this post I’ll cover our apartment search, the various neighbourhoods of Granada, the difficulties we faced…and how we found our apartment. I touched on some of the difficulties on our first Granada post: Can we live in […]
Why this student chose Valencia
Why this student chose Valencia We don’t often have students doing these “expat” interviews. But Olivia has a unique perspective: not only is she a student, she has a degree in social anthropology and Spanish. She also worked as an English Language Assistant while in Valencia, so she has experience interacting with young Spanish people. […]
