What bureaucracy?
So we’ve been living in Spain for four and half months and I must confess that I’d intended writing journal entries more frequently but the truth is that we’ve been having too much fun and there has been a lot to do. It’s the end of August and the weather has finally turned a bit cooler, indeed its raining and cloudy today. It was 38 degrees for most of July and so much of our time was spent alternately lounging by the pool and jumping in to cool off. Some days it got too hot to sit outside and on those days we closed all the shutters, put the fans on and even had the occasional siesta when it was really hot. We’ve achieved quite a lot in spite of the almost constant sun worship. We managed to get our Spanish residency permits sorted within about 12 weeks of moving here, arguably having already registered as self employed (or autonomo as its known) helped. We felt it was important to get residency sorted, particularly in light of the imminent UK exit from the EU. We p