Moving To Andalusia

Travelling around in Spain a lot, you start noticing stuff. The way they write “lively” when they mean “right above a rock club”, the way “charming” usually means “dump”, that kind of thing. And then there are the blatant lies!”Wifi is free and available in the entire hotel” is one my favorites.
Yeah, right! Free it [...]

March 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, internet connection, internet in Spain, wifi connection in hotel, wifi in Spain | Category: Free wifi, On the road, Places to stay | Leave a comment

I´ve been living in Spain for well over a year now and the one of the things that I really miss from back home is variety in food. Spaniards appear to like their food the way their mums made it and that´s just that. Especially in La Alpujarra. Pizza is ok, and an occasional Chinese [...]

February 17th, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Chez Spice, Indian restaurant in Andalusia, La Viñuela, Velez-Malaga | Category: Where to eat | Comments (4)

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)

Tornadoes, to me, were stuff that happened on the Discovery Channel. Or in the Wizard of Oz! However, since last night, I know these things can hit a lot closer to home.
A small tornado wreaked havoc in Estepona and Malaga. In seconds, the roof was ripped off a circus tent, cars got smashed, busstops were [...]

February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, Malaga, tornado | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Luckily, the Lord invented coffee!
Madoff’s first night in a hotel was rather hellish. 
We’d been staying in a lovely, pet friendly, b&b for three days and all was fine. It was just us staying there so we weren’t bothering anyone, and on the whole Madoff behaved very well.
Then we went to Malaga to Las Acacias. Also [...]

January 27th, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, breaking bad news with baby animals, Hotel, La Escuela Crujia, Las Acacias, Madoff, Malaga, petfriendly places, pup, puppies, puppy, Velez-Malaga | Category: On the road, Pet friendly, Places to stay | Leave a comment

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)

I speak a little Spanish. Some days are better than others, but all in all I get the stuff I want, albeit usually a week after I wanted it. Still, most of my conversations are a bit surreal:
“Your dog looks like a sheep”
“Yes, it has a very bad temper.”
or just very basic:
“I go village yesterday”.
I [...]

October 10th, 2008 | Tags: Alpujarras, Andalucia, Andalusia, CsiMiami, English language, Foreign language, learning Spanish, Spanish language | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Practical tips on living in Spain | Comments (1)