Finally we saw our new home, because so far we only had seen it from pictures. It is a lovely new home; very similar to our old apartment in this same compound, but with more walls and therefore easier to make cozy.
rant on getting married in Spain
That getting married in Spain would be a road with a few obstacles we of course knew upfront, especially since Mia is a not a member of the EU. That it would be this bad, we never could have imagined!
ONO deprives more than 93% of population Spain from modern technology
modern telecommunication in Spain does not really exist for more than 93% of the population
Los Reyes Magos – The Three Kings
Tonight in the whole of Spain processions are held for the arrival of Los Reyes Magos, The Three Kings. On national television there is an hours long broadcast about the celebrations in Madrid, but also here in Valencia the streets were being decorated this afternoon already, tribunes and chairs for the audience were set up [...]
Student visa Mia approved!!!
Great news! Mia just called that this morning (it’s 7 hours later in Beijing) the Spanish Embassy called to inform her that her student visa to Spain has been approved! So in a couple of weeks the long wait is over and we can together start our life in Valencia! The initial date of the [...]
El día de Todos los Santos
Today I wanted to finally look for jeans, but when I arrived at a shop I was standing in front of closed doors. Instead I went to the supermarket and got some groceries. Back home I had a look at the public holidays and found out that today is “El d‚àö‚â†a de Todos los Santos”, [...]
Happy Miercoles and Valencia Day
Every Wednesday at my school it is Happy Miercoles (Happy Wednesday), all students that want to participate go with 1 or 2 teachers to a bar for a few drinks and afterwards you can join dinner. A good opportunity for me to get to know some people, so I decided to join. My class finished [...]
visa regulations tightened for Chinese coming to Europe
A recent post on China Herald is about visa-regulations for Chinese people wanting to go to Europe. Dutch companies who want to invite staff or business partners to the Netherlands face now new barriers to get visas, business people in China and Hong Kong complain. Well actually the article is about Dutch businesses in Hong [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 22
For the last time in a while I hope I packed my suitcase once again. Well packed… more like throwing it all in. Paid the equivalent of about one month rent and headed to Amparo’s casita. Later on Amparo also came and we went to the bank to open an account. Normally that is only [...]
