That's brilliant thanks! Sounds like you have thought of everything

Do you rent out to local people or people from abroad? I have thought about doing that too.

40 minute drive to the coast is brilliant too! I was looking at a house early that was about that away from the beach in Malaga (it was sent to me by the 'Kyero' property website mailer).

Are there many expats around? Are you learning the language or getting by ok with English?

What about health insurance? Is it costly?

Finally, does Amazon deliver there

I look forward to seeing photos when you get around to putting some up

Welcome to Spain, I have lived here now nearly 16 years and still love it Good luck and lots of happy moments in your new home x

Hi Azz,

Our business is Trail Riding , so we offer long weekends all inclusive mainly to UK based guys who come on a Friday , go back on a Monday and ride our trail bikes in the beautiful countryside for 3 days. This is mainly in the Autumn and Spring as it is too hot in the summer.

Kyero is a good site for looking for properties , we used that but have family in the area we bought so found out about a lot of properties for sale through them , took almost 2 yrs to find the right house for us that was legal.There is a Citizens Advice Spain page that will give you lots of good info on how to go about things.

There are a good few expats around our area but the village is mainly Spanish with little English spoken.
We went to night school to learn Spanish and start Spanish lessons here locally in the new year , we can get by on the laungage at the mo but want to get better.

You can pay into the Spanish Health system for 60 euros a month each and get the same services as the Spanish , so that is great and the system is good. Prescriptions are much cheaper.

You can get Amazon delivereis but depends , some companies deliver some dont , but there is Amazon Spain who deliver and all sorts of other sites.

You just need to do your homework to know what the requirements are to get sorted out , you need to apply for an NIE which is a foreigners identity number as you need this to do most things including buying a house. Its not difficult and the forms and info are all available online , you need this to open a bank account too.

There is fairly high unemployment in Spain at present so work isnt freely available if you need to work but does depend on what you do , I can work online so work is available if I want it.

The euro rate is currently great and house prices still low so not a bad time to buy.

Will post some pics today at some point hopefully

Thank you

Hi Lynn , thank you and hope you and yours are all well , Tom and Bella are certainly enjoying it. Lying in the morning sun as I type

Thank you , we are loving it already and getting settled , already been to vets unfortunately and managed to get the ITV renewed on our car, its taken a lot of planning but the planning work has made the move so much easier , which area are you in Spain ?

It all takes a bit of time and the way round paperwork can be very challenging.. We are in the Murcia region, 20 minutes inland from San Javier airport.
We have around 10.000 M2 of land and an old finca and 3 Mastin espanol.. ( one of them my old girl, who was 11 in July and is cross Mastin/Malamute ).
We do need a car though where we live as no shops, doctors or bars around within walking distance but that also means it's more Spanish

We are inland south of Valencia near Xativa in the campo next to a small Spanish village , fortunately we can walk to the village which has all the amenities we need , very little English spoken in the village which is making me use my very basic Spanish which is a good thing. My dogs are a Lurcher(grey/gsd) who is nearly 9 and a greyhound who is 8 , they are loving all the land to have freedom in. We had a 20m x 10m run built for them so they have a safe place to be in too. They are house dogs and gradually getting used to the tiled floors but certainly enjoying the sunshine.

I will share the journey experience with them on the boat at some point

I know, the tiled floors are very unusual for them. and cold in the winter too but easily cleaned
Hope you settle in well and enjoy the Spanish lifestyle.. there again, what is there not to enjoy about it
Looking forward to the pictures..

Could someone kindly remind please which is the easiest online photo storage to use to upload pics to Dogsey , thank you