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Moving on…… - 23 Feb 2009
So last month we made another one of those decisions. After living in Valencia since last May we have decided we are going to have to move to Germany from April this year. The reasons are not simple to outline but they roughly break down as: Nicole is travelling a lot with her job and [...]
Read Full Post »Olympics on Spanish TV - 11 Aug 2008
Sport is an obsession for Nicole (watching it at least) and she really enjoys both the winter and summer Olympics every two years. Part of it is to support the German team, but mostly it is about the stories behind the people and understanding what this all means to them. For the last winter Olympics [...]
Read Full Post »The Gestor - 30 Jul 2008
We have just spent the last hour waiting around for someone to make a nice signed photocopy of our passports. In 3 months this has been our first run in with bureaucracy in Spain and ironically it happened today after we signed up with our Gestor, who is the person who is supposed to sort [...]
Read Full Post »Our first full house - 28 Jul 2008
We are just returning from the airport after saying goodbye to Nicole’s sisters, brother-in-laws and nephew. They have been with us for a week and it is the first time that we have had people stay for so long and also using both spare room and living room as bedrooms. In all it has worked [...]
Read Full Post »Valencian bull fighting - 27 Jul 2008
Yesterday I went with Nicole’s two brother-in-laws to see the last day of the July 2008 bull fighting in Valencia. I really do not know what to think about the fighting – I went because I wanted to decide for myself what to think not just think what others think. I found myself changing my [...]
Read Full Post »Valencian Goal Celebrations – Euro 2008 - 27 Jun 2008
With last nights result it means that the two teams we have been supporting for the Euro championships are now in the final – Germany and Spain. We went to our usual football bar last night to watch the match, it is right by the football stadium and a popular bar for Spaniards, we watched [...]
Read Full Post »From Serrig to Valencia - 18 May 2008
As previously mentioned we had great weather on the day we left. I had packed most of the van the day before, but we were up at 7 to finish the packing and then at 8 Nicole’s dad and two Brothers-in-law helped load up the heavy stuff onto the roofrack. We had a final breakfast [...]
Read Full Post »All settled with internet access to boot - 09 May 2008
OK it is a Friday night at 10 past 11 and I am updating my blog – so not all can be good – but it is! We now feel settled in our new flat in Valencia – it has been a hard few weeks since my last update. Mostly spent socialising, packing and working [...]
Read Full Post »Tennis was interesting, but the Brit lost….next some football - 13 Apr 2008
Tennis was great yesterday, we saw two full matches in the centre court and watched the city’s best tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero practicing. He has been responsible for also creating the Valencia Open which is only 6 years old. This is the last year it will be held where it was held yesterday – [...]
Read Full Post »Now we have a flat sorted.. lets try some tennis - 12 Apr 2008
We spent yesterday walking Valencia, not the old town and bits we had done before – but from the old town to our new neighbourhood. Along the park in the old river bed. We saw the local places in our Barrio (I’ll explain that term another time) – the local fruit shops, butchers, bakers, bars [...]
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