Category Archives: Moving to Spain

Throw Away Your Panty Hose – 5 Tips On Moving To The Canary Islands

You can throw away your panty hose if you move to the Canary...
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How To Move To Seville – Local Tips To Getting Set Up

Have you always dreamed of moving to Southern Spain? Cat Gaa tells you how to make it happen...
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How’s Spain Doing?

How’s Spain doing in the crisis? One local viewpoint from Madrid.....
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Why (and How) I Moved To Spain – Was I Crazy? (no. 1): Liz In Logroño

Liz Carlson first fell for Spain as a teen. After college, she made her way back to Iberia....
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The Soapbox Scoop (no. 4): Aggression And Violence In Crisis Time (Or, People Are Jerks)

What the ^$%& is going on in Barcelona and Spain these days? Have people completely lost the plot? Spain shows its ugly side....
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7 Things I Love About My City (and 3 Why It Sucks): Seville

Seville is one of Spain's most famous cities. But what does Cat Gaa, a local in Seville, love and hate about living there?
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How I Learned Spanish & How You Can, Too

Tips from a local in Andalucia on learning Spanish...
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7 Reasons Why I Love My City (and 3 Why It Sucks): Logroño

No place is perfect. Liz tells it like it is about Logroño, Spain...
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7 Tips – What Not To Do When Moving To Spain

An award-winning journalist, blogger and painter, Karen McCann is a very funny writer...
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7 Reasons I Love My City (and 3 Why It Sucks) : Algeciras

Moving abroad is not all vino, tapas and siestas!
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The Scoop Interviews (no. 15): Family In Spain

Families traveling and moving to other countries is becoming more common as we become a global...
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10 Differences Between Spain and the USA – Revisited

Sometimes I wonder at how my life has changed. I grew up in Portland, Oregon, but after 8 years abroad it is clear that I am no longer that girl from the NW (well, maybe in my heart). Here are some of my favorites differences between my birth country and my adopted country:
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The English Bit of Spain – Murcia, Alicante and La Manga Club

Exploring Alicante and Murcia where some villages are more English than Spanish...
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How to Get Working Papers in Spain

How to get working papers or a working visa in Spain. Real, local advice on what steps to take to get working in Spain.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name – Not Lonely In Madrid

Every ex-pat gets the blues, misses family and friends and wonders what the hell were...
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The Good, Bad, and Loco: Moving To Madrid (Part 2)

Moving can be a pain in the wazoo and as Lauren Linzer, our guest writer and expert on Madrid writes, she wanted to feel alive and immerse...
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6 Tips On Moving To Spain

Packing is key when it comes to moving abroad, and 9 times out of 10, people pack too much...
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Shhhhhhhhh, Knifesharpeners Are Coming – Old Spain

Shhhhhhhh. Listen. You may hear a shrill whistle, twittering up the scale and back down. This is a sound of old Spain...
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Rough Enough, Tough Enough, Hip Enough for El Raval?

Raval is one of Barcelona's hippest areas. If you are a hipster wearing...
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