I recently recieved this email and article from Peter Jones, a Expat currently Living In Spain, having lived the Expat Life for over 30 years now.
I visited Almerimar once, about 17 years ago, visiting some friends who had moored up for the winter. I enjoyed my stay, but to be honest had forgotten all about [...]
Expat Living: In Hindsight
November 16th, 2009An Expats View Of: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
October 5th, 2009Phil Fairburn is an ‘expat’ working in Africa, Abidjan on the Ivory Coast to be precise. Phil is on twitter (@Sheffman2) where we met. I asked Phil if he would be interested in sharing some of his many experiences as an Expat on the blog. Delighted to say he said yes, and sent in this [...]
Just Because You Are British Doesn’t Mean I Like You
September 4th, 2009The chances are I don’t like you! Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean I dislike you, it just means I don’t like you. Why should I, I don’t know you!
Many years ago when we used to regularly visit the condo in Oldsmar, Florida we were often met at the airport by a good American [...]
New Taxes Facing Expats In Spain
August 31st, 2009While all the expats, tourists, residents and businesses have done the traditional Spanish thing and shut down for August, the Spanish Tax Man has been down the gym developing some extra muscles and the odd super power – all aimed at allowing them to scrutinize the accounts and details of the foreign property owner in [...]
Expat Living: 5 Spanish Dislikes
August 21st, 2009After my recent article Expat Living: 5 Spanish Loves I thought it only right to offer a balance. It took me a long time to write the 5 loves article …….. because it was hard to narrow the list down. It took equally as long to write this 5 dislikes article ……. because I [...]
Expat Living: 5 Spanish Loves
August 7th, 2009It is easy to say that you love the expat life in Spain, but could you explain why specifically? If you had to come up with five specific things you liked about Spain and why they made you love living in Spain what would they be?
The list below is the one that I find myself [...]
Expat Technology: Call 2 Abroad For Cheap Calls
July 27th, 2009A issue for all expats living abroad, whether it be here in Almerimar, Spain or elsewhere across Europe, is the cost and convenience of keeping in touch with friends and family back home, or in many cases with work contacts as well.
I imagine then that the ability to make cheap calls from Spain would be [...]
New UK TV show wants to help expats
July 18th, 2009If you are in the process of buying a business abroad, then a new UK TV show may be able to help…as long as you don’t mind being on the telly that is!
Do you dream of being your own boss and running your own business?
Are you and your family planning to start a brand new [...]
Expat Living: What Do We Really Dream?
July 10th, 2009I don’t know if you watched the recent ITV two part program Spain: Paradise Lost, and if so what you felt about it? I have some pretty strong views about the general misrepresentation within the program, and a generally unsympathetic attitude to what is best described as naivety on behalf of many, but that can [...]
Expat Podcast: To Phlog or Podcast
July 3rd, 2009
With the addition of My Phlogs to the site we now have two audio options, the phlogs and the podcasts.I am pretty sure how we will be using them ….. phlogs for daily snippets and reviews and news, and podcasts for some more detailed features, but everything remains fluid!
In this podcast (which I have also [...]
Expat Living: Trying To Integrate
June 26th, 2009I thought that this week in addition to some specific information on Almerimar, the blog and the odd personal bit of chit chat I would expand the Podcast to include some items of news relevant to the area that I have picked up from the Spanish press.
This is part of a ‘much’ wider project [...]
Expat Living: De Cluttering Project
June 26th, 2009Here is my article for The Reader Edition 26th June
Our move to Spain full time wasn’t exactly planned, and as such we have ended up with far too much stuff! Combine that with a significant change in lifestyle and a combined tendency to horde and we are pretty much full to the brim here in [...]
Expat Living: Summer In Almerimar
June 19th, 2009Summer is pretty much here now in Almerimar. How do I know that? Well the WebCam is a bit of a give away, but the sure fire way of telling is to observe the cats behavior. They have adjusted their body clocks to summer time already, and you know what ……. what they do makes [...]
Expat Living – Ignorance Can Be Bliss
June 12th, 2009Here is my latest article for The Reader.
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I am back from my trip back to the UK so it is somewhat inevitable that it is fresh in my mind as I write this article. As an Expat living in Spain I am sure that there is an element of over justification at times in the [...]
Expat Living Almerimar New Site Design
June 7th, 2009Only one subject that it could be really this week …… a look behind the rationale for the new site design!
