Moving To Andalusia

Getting satellite tv in La Alpujarra

November 3rd, 2009 | Tags: satellite tv in La Alpujarra | Category: Buying a house in Spain | Leave a comment

If you’re looking for property in La Alpujarra you’ve probably come across “naves” and “cortijos”, both sold as dwellings, in luscious countryside. So which is which?

October 1st, 2009 | Tags: cortijo or nave | Category: Buying a house in Spain | Leave a comment

I´ve been back to the motherland for the past two months and it was lovely. I got to hang out with my friends, have endless cups of tea with my mama, browsed the shops with my sister and I ate all the stuff I miss when I´m out here: boerenkool, my mum´s meatballs, my favorite [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: best thing Alpujarra, goats grazing in La Alpujarra, moving to Andalusia | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Random thoughts, What´s going on in Andalusia | Leave a comment

We´ve been living in different longterm rentals for the past few years and we´ve picked up a few useful tidbits. Everything you need to find the perfect place to rent long term!
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May 26th, 2009 | Tags: Longterm rental Alpujarra, longterm rental Andalusia, moving to Andalusia, renting in La Alpujarra | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Practical tips on living in Spain | Comments (1)

I have met a lot of real estate agents over the last couple of years, but I think I met the worst one ever yesterday. Or didn´t quite meet. Because she didn´t show up. I sat like an idiot waiting for an hour, but no real estate agent.When I finally got through to her, she [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Category: Buying a house in Spain | Leave a comment

200.000 Spaniards lost their jobs this January. That makes a total of 3.33 million Spaniards without a job. The credit crunch and the end of the housing bubble is causing the crisis to hit Spain harder than other countries so far.
Untill recently, the only person I knew who’d been hit by the Crisis was my [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, Great Depression, La Alpujarra, Spain, unemployment | Category: Buying a house in Spain | Comments (1)

For two weeks now we’ve lived solely on solar energy. It feels great, because we’re so eco-friendly, not harming anyone, etc. However, there are some down sides to solar energy. A lot of appliances are simply Verboten. No toasters, no hairdryers, no electric heaters. They take up so much energy that they suck it all [...]

December 29th, 2008 | Tags: solar energy | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Practical tips on living in Spain | Comments (3)

As I am looking to buy a house in the Andalusian Alpujarras I’m curious how the global economical crisis is affecting the real estate prices in this neck of the woods.
Type “Spanish housing market” into any old search engine and you’ll get millions of results. Google gives you over 11.100.000 results, Yahoo! yields a whopping [...]

October 18th, 2008 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, Ask price, buying property Andalusia, Capileira, La Alpujarra, Real estate, Spain | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Practical tips on living in Spain | Comments (4)

It’s not a cute subject, but it is something to consider when moving to Spain: Spanish plumbing, well, it reeks. As my friend G., who used to be a builder himself, puts it “they haven’t got a clue, they think if they just stick a pipe in stuff will just go away”. I myself know [...]

October 14th, 2008 | Tags: moving to Andalusia, moving to Spain, Plumber, Plumbing, Toilet, Toilet paper | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Practical tips on living in Spain | Comments (1)