Join me as I take you on a journey through my life in Spain, sharing both the challenges and joys, and my favorite places and things to do. Follow along and discover something new before moving or living in Spain.
NIE, residency, taxes, housing. The admin, in the order you'll actually meet it.
Cities, coastlines and day trips we've done with the family, and what they cost.
Three years of life here, written as it happened. Start at year one.
We arrived with patchy Spanish and Google Translate. A year at a private school, then a free town hall course got my wife and me to conversational - and our son, who started kindergarten at two, overtook us.
We asked to rent our house first and the owner said no. Buying it took a Starlink test, a bank we gave up on, an exam at the notary and a very full room.
We didn’t know we had a winter depression in the Netherlands until our first winter in Spain, when it simply didn’t show up.
We found Valencia before we ever moved to Spain. Now we live near Torrent and go in about once a week - here’s what our son loves, where we park, and when we take the metro instead.
Checked and dated, so you know what still applies before you book an appointment.
I'm a PHP and NodeJS developer who was born in Amsterdam, NL but now lives in beautiful Valencia, Spain. I work remotely full-time and enjoy blogging about everything related to this wonderful country. Let me know if you have any questions about Spain — I'd be more than happy to help!