12 Essential Tips for Surviving Summertime in Valencia
Living in Valencia can be great. But Valencia’s summer months can also be a challenge. If you already live here, then I’m sure you’ve found a way to deal with…
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Immigrant in Valencia: 8 Reasons Why I Love Being An Immigrant in Valencia
Whether you call it being an expat or an immigrant, the experience remains equally enriching. In this post, I’ve compiled 8 reasons why I adore being an immigrant in Valencia.…
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How We Exchanged Our UK Driving Licence To Spanish
Read my step by step guide on how we exchanged our UK driving licence for Spanish. Including a list of driving medical test centres in Valencia. I’m sure you can…
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House Hunting In Valencia, 11 Things To Look Out For And Things To Avoid
Are you looking into moving to Valencia? But not sure where to start when looking for a home? Read my experiences and 10 things to look out for when house…
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19 Signs You’ve Been Living In Valencia For Too Long
Valencia is a beautiful city full of traditions and sunshine! The friendly Valencian attitude is contagious, and if you live in this city for long enough, their culture and attitude…
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How We Obtained A Mortgage In Spain As Self-Employed Expats
Are you looking to get a mortgage in Spain as a self-employed ex-pat? Then read on and find out how we got our mortgage approved in less than a month! …
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What Is It Like To Live In An Urbanisation In Valencia?
Living in an urbanisation in Valencia can have many advantages. For example; it’s a great place for families, as many have facilities to cater for kids and you will find…
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A Quick Guide On How To Apply For Residency In Valencia
On this post, I will walk you through a quick description on how to apply for residency in Valencia, Spain. I assume you have been thinking for a while about…
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10 Of The Best Areas To Live Outside Valencia City
There are many interesting and unique neighbourhoods in Valencia, and finding the best areas to live is not always easy. Everyone has different preferences, and so everyone will have different…
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Realities Of Being A British Family In Valencia
What makes a family want to uproot themselves and move to a completely different country? There is nothing easy about giving up everything you know, especially when it comes to language, family, friends and all the things you grew up knowing and being comfortable with.
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Els Calçots: A messy gastronomic gathering!
Even though the calçotada is a long term Catalan tradition, you don’t have to be in Catalonia to enjoy this messy gastronomic gathering! Last weekend was my second calçotada experience…
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So, you’re thinking about living in Valencia?
Lately, I've been getting a lot of emails from young families wanting to live in Valencia and I love reading them because it reminds me of myself a few years ago when we initially thought about moving to Spain.
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The House Search: Altea, Spain
We have decided to extend our house search a little more south of Valencia. Yes, sadly, we are still looking and after much thought we are in two minds whether…
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Fire Safety and Comfortable Living In Spain
We have already spent a few years here in Spain, I believe we are safe to say that this is the place where we want to settle down. Looking back,…
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Days of Winter | Días de Invierno
The 7 year old graduated to his second bike this Christmas, according to him it’s the best bike in the world.. so far. I’m not quite sure what that means…
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Spanish & Valencian Public Holidays 2015
How emotionally prepared were you on the first working day of the year? Yeah, Monday has been hard for me too, luckily the boys go back to school on Wednesday…
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My Autumn Bucket List
So far I have experienced three different types of ‘Autumns’ in my lifetime. Having been spent my young life back in the Philippines, we don’t have the Autumn season, but what we…
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Summer in Valencia Spain
We are not short of sunshine here in Valencia, so even though my husband and I spend our time working during the week, we are certain that on weekends we…
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Fruits and Vegetables from a Mediterranean Garden
Once in a while especially during spring and summer, we get a knock on the door from one of our neighbours, usually, they come laden with vegetables or eggs that…
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Unexpected benefits of living in Spain
It’s been a pretty normal week, nothing out of the ordinary apart from the other half leaving me solo with the boys while he took a trip to the States.…
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Pet transport service reviews UK to Spain: Posh Pet Spain
I wrote a post a few days ago about transporting our cat from the UK to Spain and I promised to write a detailed pet transport service reviews about my whole experience with the company we used.
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Transporting your pet from UK to Spain
About a four weeks ago we manage to find a suitable pet courier company for our cat Hank, so that is one ‘to do’ that can be checked off our list. We…
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