Stick or twist?

It’s been seven years since we made the move from England to Spain. It’s hard to believe or comprehend everything that we’ve been through in that time. Strangely it’s the difficult times that I remember most when I look back on our time here, but not entirely with a sense of annoyance, more often with […]

Glass half empty?

I was just reading my comments in my last post and found that I had naively written the following; “As we approach our fifth anniversary of living in Spain it’s safe to say that, these days, we are rarely surprised by tardiness or bureaucracy, and my blood doesn’t boil like it used to, so I […]

De policia a granjero!

After five weeks of homelessness whilst the interior of the house was being renovated it was time to head back to Spain. A most enjoyable and productive month, staying with family in the French countryside, had come to an end and the moment had come to face the reality of developments back home in our […]