Sun Family in Spain
Daily life of a new immigrant/expat in Spain
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We celebrated our first major holiday in Spain. I ordered a turkey from an Irish Butcher, Sol ran all over town to find cranberries and proper brown sugar. I looked high and low for sage and our other American friends were able to find some, then I found it in an English grocery store and…
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Being from the US I am spoiled by a large washing machine that can wash even the most disgusting teen boy’s gym clothes in an hour and most cycles in 45 minutes. We have dozens of detergents that claim to whiten, soften, keep colors bright, protect sensitive skin, that smell like flowers or smell like…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what it feels like to not be on guard all the time. In the US I have been trained to grab my keys and hold them between my fingers before I leave to go to my car. You are conditioned to be vigilant of people around you and be…
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Eating and cooking in Spain is a great adventure. The Spanish eat more fish per capita than any other country other than Japan. They probably rank pretty high for pork too. Learning the rhythms of eating is a little difficult and complicated by living in an area with a lot of tourists and foreigners. Where…
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Driving in Spain is an exercise in chaos. The roads are narrow, roundabouts are everywhere and no one seems to follow the same rules when in them, speed bumps appear out of nowhere, parking takes a phd in physics to figure out if you can squeeze your car into a space and no parking zones…
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Buying a car We we have been renting a car then some friends let us borrow one of their cars for a while. Now we are renting a car again. In the past few months we have driven a VW Van, Seat Ibiza, Pugeot 307, a Pugeot 208 and a Fiat 500. We decided it…
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When we decided to move to Spain in April, it started the clock ticking because we knew we needed to start getting ready for a move in September. We also had a pre-planned trip in June to Spain and Italy. We contacted a couple of immigration attorneys and decided to go with a group Move…
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In addition to getting all of our paperwork together and submitted for translation so it would all be ready when we arrived in Spain to submit we had to get our lives ready. We were mid landscaping project, needed to get a shed to store our stuff, clean out a storage shed in another city,…
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Its only been two weeks and we are starting to settle in, but It feels like living on a movie set. Palm Trees, white washed villas, beautiful beach bars, exotic cars and designer dogs. Our Son’s school is in Puerto Banus which is where the rich and famous often dock their yachts while they shop…
Sun Family in Spain 