Bonus & Wendy's Big Adventure . . . .

[Bonus]

The ship carrying our container has docked at Barcelona harbour!

 

Now we have to supply a few last bits of paperwork to the shipping agent in Spain for Customs and then the container should be checked and released for road delivery to us. We have had to apply at the local Land Registry office for our "we own a property in Spain" certificates (although we are not official residence yet) and on Monday first thing (which is 10am in Spain) we will pick up our official Tax Clearance stickers from the local(ish) Tax Office.

 

The Tax Office gives you official stickers (with your Spanish tax number on them) that are then stuck onto your paperwork by the customs officers.

 

:-)

[Slowbee]

jinne bugger the "pics that make you want to ride thread"

 

this should be called the "thread that makes you want to move to spain thread"

 

freakin motivational thats for sho'!

[Bonus]

Glad we're entertaining you SB!

 

Thanks for the support, from you and everyone. Some days we need it, believe me! Lol

[Slowbee]

no entertainment here, ok well maybe a little, but mostly inspirational on chasing dreams.

[Bonus]

Entertainment is good too.

[Bonus]

A nice stroll around our local farmers market this morning. Very nice. :-)

[Gen]

A nice stroll around our local farmers market this morning. Very nice. :-)

Phew glad you didn't post pics.. in my mind it looks amazing, and I don't need you to make me more jealous ????

[Bonus]

Hard to believe that this will be our "Workshop and Laundry" one day . . . watch this space!

[Wendy]

So today is the festival of the spring onion in our little village. All 50 people will be in the pub for a gastronomic onion evening. With all their home made wines too of course. They never skip the wine. I have found my tribe

[Snow]

Ye-hay! Way to go B & W all the best. May try and c u soon!

[Bonus]

Took a trip to watch the end of a stage of the Volta a Catalunya. It was only 2 hrs away - seemed rude not to :-)

[Bonus]

Yesterday we went for "Easter Sunday Lunch" with Ramon & Rosa, the old farmer and his wife who owned the property we bought. They are our neighbours and seem to like us very much :-)

Lunch was exactly as you would expect it in the house of an old farming couple. We ate in the kitchen in front of a lovely open log fire. There were many courses with lots of home grown ingredients and four different puddings of which we had a bit of each! The chicken we ate had been walking around the farmyard the day before, the wine and schnapps, of which there were several varieties, were homemade and of the "rocket-fuel" variety - fetched from the wine cellar once we arrived.

 

I took Ramon and showed him with our drawings what we plan to do with our house, while Wendy helped Rosa in the kitchen :-)

 

What a lovely homely couple - it was a very nice afternoon and we came home and predictably nodded off a bit!

 

I'm enjoying the "meeting neighbours" part of our Adventure. . . .

Edited March 28, 2016 by Bonus

[Mntboy]

Yesterday we went for "Easter Sunday Lunch" with Ramon & Rosa, the old farmer and his wife who owned the property we bought. They are our neighbours and seem to like us very much :-)

Lunch was exactly as you would expect it in the house of an old farming couple. We ate in the kitchen in front of a lovely open log fire. There were many courses with lots of home grown ingredients and four different puddings of which we had a bit of each! The chicken we ate had been walking around the farmyard the day before, the wine and schnapps, of which there were several varieties, were homemade and of the "rocket-fuel" variety - fetched from the wine cellar once we arrived.

 

 

I took Ramon and showed him with our drawings what we plan to do with our house, while Wendy helped Rosa in the kitchen :-)

 

What a lovely homely couple - it was a very nice afternoon and we came home and predictably nodded off a bit!

 

I'm enjoying the "meeting neighbours" part of our Adventure. . . .

I am turning several shades of green!

 

Your neighbours sound awesome and at least that part of the journey seems to have sorted itself out! I enjoy reading about your and Mrs B's adventures and all sounds really good. Can't wait to see the pictures when you guys start and finish with the renovation. Once again good luck with the journey B&W!

[Bonus]

Our container has been checked and cleared by customs

 

We've paid the final customs fee - for some sort of "scan" (imagine the size of the X-Ray machine that scans 40ft containers!) and for storage over the Easter holidays. The container is due to be delivered to us at our storage unit (4km from our house) next Thursday morning.

 

We were worried that we would end up paying some import duties on our belongings but it seems our "proof of residence outside of the EU for the last 12 months" was good enough. Initially Spanish customs wanted a letter from the British Embassy confirming we'd been living abroad but when we phoned them to ask for this letter the Embassy told us they have "no clue where British citizens are around the world" and that they do not supply these letters, that Spain know this and should stop asking! Anyway our docs (utility bills) were enough.

 

So, one week and I will have my beloved mountain bike and Wendy will have her beloved shoes!

[Gen]

Our container has been checked and cleared by customs

 

We've paid the final customs fee - for some sort of "scan" (imagine the size of the X-Ray machine that scans 40ft containers!) and for storage over the Easter holidays. The container is due to be delivered to us at our storage unit (4km from our house) next Thursday morning.

 

We were worried that we would end up paying some import duties on our belongings but it seems our "proof of residence outside of the EU for the last 12 months" was good enough. Initially Spanish customs wanted a letter from the British Embassy confirming we'd been living abroad but when we phoned them to ask for this letter the Embassy told us they have "no clue where British citizens are around the world" and that they do not supply these letters, that Spain know this and should stop asking! Anyway our docs (utility bills) were enough.

 

So, one week and I will have my beloved mountain bike and Wendy will have her beloved shoes!

Great you almost have stuff.????????

[Bonus]

You have no idea how exciting this is!