Author: Alicja

While living in Spain it is beneficial to get familiar with public services available for residents. The main public services of most interest include: healthcare, social security & welfare, employment services, social services and access and administration.  I would focus here mostly on healthcare as this service concerns everyone, regardless of age or employment status. …

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Spain is a part of the European Union so all the residents from other European Union countries are allowed to live and work in Spain without a visa. As mentioned in my previous posts my daughters and I hold Polish passports so in theory we could just come to Spain and stay there for as …

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It’s been a year since we relocated to Spain from the UK. I think it would be a good idea to reflect on what has been good, what has been not so good, if we are happy and if there are any regrets.  We are in the UK at the moment, visiting family and friends. …

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Although we drove our car from the UK to Spain when moving, we decided that the best option would be to sell it back in the UK and buy a car in Spain. As mentioned in the previous post, keeping the car from the UK isn’t practical as in Spain they drive on the right …

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The first days in Spain after relocating are remembered by us with a mixture of relief that the hard part was done, excitement of beginning a new chapter, and relaxation but also with a bit of uncertainty. We were staying in temporary accommodation which was really comfortable with access to a communal pool so we …

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In this post we will talk about driving from the UK to Spain. We decided to make our relocation journey by car for a few reasons. First we needed to take clothes and other necessary items to last us a month in our temporary accommodation until we could move to our apartment and until our …

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This post provides tips on packing and finding the moving company when relocating to Spain. When I look back I think packing was one of the hardest things we had to do. We had lived in our house for 9 years and by then we had accumulated a collection of many objects, gadgets and possessions. …

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This post will talk about formalities like NIE, permits and visas in Spain. NIE – the magic number you cannot operate in Spain without. NIE, which stands for Numero de Identidad de Extranjero (Foreign Identity Number) is “a unique, personal, and permanent tax identification number used by Spanish authorities to identify foreign nationals who have …

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This post focuses on the apartment search in Spain. With the school registration fees paid and the places secured, everything about this relocation became suddenly real. It was the middle of April and we started, very slowly, looking at the rental options. There were many questions to answer. The first one was where to look. …

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