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According to El País, amazon.es will be starting up on 15.09.2011. That’s good news for us, as we buy quite a lot from Amazon, not just books, but also electronic and kitchen equipment, and were going to miss them once we got established in Xàtiva! Spaniards have waited for 16 years, but it . . . → Read More: Good timing Amazon … in Valencia, in the Plaza de Toros (the bullring)! Oktoberfest 2011 – Valencia The Spanish Oktoberfest finishes on the day that the “real” Oktoberfest in Munich starts (17th September 2011). As you can guess, I have been to see how the house construction has got on during the holiday month of August. . . . → Read More: The Oktoberfest has already begun…
A pity these hadn't been invented when we were kids! We have just got back from Valencia (visiting the building plot) again. While we were walking from our hotel to the metro on the second evening we came across this little guy having great fun bouncing on the trampoline, supported by his stretchy . . . → Read More: Bouncing good fun!
Seen this week in Valencia Just a quick post – the above slogan caught my eye in Valencia this week when I visited our building site with Antonio. The students are still camping out in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. The poster pretty much ties in with my perception of reality these days. It . . . → Read More: Politicians give Bankers blowjobs
The Spanish Revolution in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento 31.05.2011 I was in Valencia again Monday to Wednesday this week to see what is going on at the building site. The “Spanish Revolution” was still taking place in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento – all very peaceful and orderly. It is just round the corner . . . → Read More: The Spanish Revolution – Valencia #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Escif Escif? Street sign near the main market Street sign near the main market Pictures taken in Valencia, Spain. Click on any . . . → Read More: Escif? While searching the internet for information on the current crisis in Japan, I stumbled across an interesting press release from Reuters – it seems that a US-led research team thinks it has found the lost city of Atlantis in southern Spain in the Doñana National Park, which is just north of Cádiz. Their . . . → Read More: Lost city of Atlantis found?
La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 We visited Antonio in Valencia yesterday and spent the morning at the building site. When we got back at just before two in the afternoon, the streets of Valencia were packed with people and Antonio needed to show his Spanish . . . → Read More: “Hostilities” break out in Valencia  Hotel Catalonia Excelsior, Barcelonina, 5 (to the right in the picture) We flew down to Valencia on Sunday afternoon for a couple of days to meet Antonio, our architect. The design of the house is nearly finished to the stage where we can apply for planning permission, so we went to discuss some final details and to meet some of the potential suppliers. Quite a lot, in fact. We were in meetings from 9:30 until 15:00 hrs. A good job that the Spanish eat lunch late, so we were able to get a good meal after we finished. We also met María Pedro for the first time, the landscape architect who Antonio put us in contact with some time ago. Up until now, our contact with her has only been via e-mail. She is a friend of his daughter and has just set up in business after studying in Spain and doing “industrial periods” in Scotland and Canada. We are very happy with the progress to date, and are hoping that Antonio will be able to submit the plans for approval before Spain shuts down for the summer holidays over the month of August. We have received the results of the land registry checks that our abogado (lawyer) in Spain has made on the plot we want to buy. I am impressed. The time to get the information was less than a week, and the land registry for the whole of Spain is on-line, with basic information available . . . → Read More: The Spanish Land Registry online |
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