Author: Franco

In Search of the Meatball

Our Spanish legal eagle is based in Moraira, a coastal town, one that’s a bit of a Brit stronghold, not too far from us here in Jalón. We have an appointment with them at 9:15 AM on Monday. Since we

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Off to Sign

Our Spanish legal eagle informed us that completion of our house purchase was booked for Monday, 2nd February. So, I’d booked a 2-week trip to Spain to complete the legal formalities for Casa Libélule. As luck would have it, our

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Ownership in Sight

I was going to call this “Completion in Sight”, as in completing the purchase, but I’m reserving the term completion for the time when Casa Libélule  is habitable. 😉 So, for now, we’ve been exchanging fairly regular emails with our

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I Name this House …

[Yes, I know, another retrospective post. I’ll catch up eventually – maybe!] All I can say is that it wasn’t me. Despite the name, it was Francine who coined it. Her getting to the name stemmed from a couple of

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International Money Transfers

[Retrospective again. I might be up to date, soon. ;-)] The next step in our attempt at a Spanish house purchase. I’m quite used to buying currency to travel in Europe. My currency requirements are normally either for our regular

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Finding a Legal Eagle

[Another retrospective post. ;-)] Having secured our intended property in Jalón, and by secured I mean that our 3000€ deposit was accepted which apparently “takes the property off the market” for 3 months, our next task was to find a

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Heart in Mouth

[This is one of those retrospective posts, written after the event :)] We were introduced to the Jalón Valley on Spain’s Costa Blanca back in May 2006 by our next door neighbours. That  long weekend trip was our first Spanish

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Xàbia al Plat Mariner

Another grey day in the valley that we could, perhaps, escape, if we headed for the coast. Our chosen target this time was Jávea/Xàbia which, I think, is another Brit stronghold a little further north up the Mediterranean coast. Before

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Moraira Reed Bed

Our valley was mostly grey and rather uninspiring again today. We’d spent our best spell of sunshine waiting in various queues inside Dénia hospital. Once again, however, the skies looked as though they might be brighter towards the coast so,

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A Novel Experience

Francine had a disturbing night; she was complaining of lights or streaks in the right periphery of her vision, most noticeable in the dark. The effect was still there this morning. We were supposed to be going for a walk

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