Tam &Toby do Europe ...Take two

[klaatu]

I've been up and down the staircase at Fonseranes a few times in a hired pleasure cruiser. Great fun, particularly when applying the rule that you have to have a glass of wine after each lock. Ah, the folly of youth...

 

[Rob and Val]

We've missed you, Tam! Good to hear that you are back in your favoured country. Like Podney said, it was really kind of you to help the young Frenchman.

 

[suavecarve]

Oops!
Should have uploaded the picture.
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Did you take the back steps (Kings passage ?) down, they were a bit interesting. They had a rope on that one and swinging off doing quadruple somersaults which i wouldnt have even wanted to try in my youth.

 

[Clarky]

Did you take the back steps (Kings passage ?) down, they were a bit interesting. They had a rope on that one and swinging off doing quadruple somersaults which i wouldnt have even wanted to try in my youth.

No Way!!
Particularly as the Memsahib doesn't like loads of steps. The view from above was just fine, thank you.

Richard.

 

[Northernraider]

Okay

So who is clued up about buying property in Spain?

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[Northernraider]

Smashing pictures Tam, looks like a lovely area even if it is France.
I wonder how many Ponts de Diable there are in France.
We looked down on another one at Thueyts, just off the N102, in the Rhone Alps a couple of years ago.

Richard.

Yeah there's probably a few I'd imagine, that one has a legend to it that's in one of the photos I uploaded on the boards. But as an atheist I don't believe in God's and devils personally ...but I guess it draws the tourists in.

 

[Clarky]

Yeah there's probably a few I'd imagine, that one has a legend to it that's in one of the photos I uploaded on the boards. But as an atheist I don't believe in God's and devils personally ...but I guess it draws the tourists in.

Just takes one nutter to jump off and its an instant legend.
As you say, its good for tourism.

Richard.

 

[nicholsong]

Okay

So who is clued up about buying property in Spain?

Well gus-lopez is a lawyer and lives in Spain, so might be your best source.

 

[Northernraider]

Just takes one nutter to jump off and its an instant legend.
As you say, its good for tourism.

Richard.

Ah the legend is more about some monk making a pact with the devil to build him an indestructible bridge in exchange for the soul of the first thing to cross it...they then sent a dog over the bridge etc etc etc

 

[Northernraider]

Well gus-lopez is a lawyer and lives in Spain, so might be your best source.

I never knew Richard was a lawyer ....

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[Val 3 dogs]

Welcome back to your thread and Spain! Once again lovely pictures - I wondered in the first lot of the pretty little village whether your luck had changed when I spotted a young woman on a heavily laden bike in two pictures - but alas no mention of her.
I love the old corrugated citreon? vans, ever since my horse and I were recovered in one having gone lame during a competition.
He had to travel with his nose on the floor, the roof was so low. They wondered why I insisted on traveling in with him (crazy English woman)!
I once saw a camper version parked at Tesco's in Dingwall.
Good on ya for befriending and helping the young lad

 

[mitzimad]

ive got a cousin who lives in spain she bought a property 12 years ago and wishes now she had rented one if that helps

 

[Northernraider]

Welcome back to your thread and Spain! Once again lovely pictures - I wondered in the first lot of the pretty little village whether your luck had changed when I spotted a young woman on a heavily laden bike in two pictures - but alas no mention of her.
I love the old corrugated citreon? vans, ever since my horse and I were recovered in one having gone lame during a competition.
He had to travel with his nose on the floor, the roof was so low. They wondered why I insisted on traveling in with him (crazy English woman)!
I once saw a camper version parked at Tesco's in Dingwall.
Good on ya for befriending and helping the young lad

Ha ha no that was just a pair of female cyclists that were peddling up the very steep hill laden with lots of gear and I was impressed as id have been pushing the bike.

The old citroen h vans I've always liked and the red one is an old peugeout which was also cool , both were campers but very run down. A friend used to have a restored camper one in Scotland...lots of character.

The young lad was a character ....I don't know his situation but he had nothing...yet he had taken in 2 cats and 2 dogs and was feeding them etc ....he had a good heart and deserved some help however little.
He was in an old fiat ducato motor home that looked like it was In a scrap yard...I don't think it was meant to be on the road to be honest but he drove it away the morning before I left

 

[Northernraider]

ive got a cousin who lives in spain she bought a property 12 years ago and wishes now she had rented one if that helps

Yeah I don't want to do that though , obviously I'd have to find work out here but if I owned my home outright with no mortgage that allows me not to require a job that I work all the time with no life.

I've found 3 properties here in this town that I could buy outright and still have a decent amount of savings. Then I can sell Toby buy a smaller camper and a Harley and enjoy life in a sunnier climate

 

[john lillie]

go for it mate, you're only young(ish) once, especially the Harley although if you go for one of those be sure to get your fillings sorted first!

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[Barclaybasher]

I'd wait a bit.
....you'll get a better rate on the euro when May gets her deal through and we don't really leave the EU...

 

[Relic]

lots of hidden costs when buying in Spain(as I found out)
Notary 600e-1000e
Property registration 400e-650e
Gestoria 250e-500e
Property transfer tax 4%-11% ( depends on region)
Go into it with your eyes wide open, I think that covers everything but may have forgotten something.
Don't forget when you come to sell you have all these costs again
loving your travels, hope you are happier being back in Spain

 

[Northernraider]

lots of hidden costs when buying in Spain(as I found out)
Notary 600e-1000e
Property registration 400e-650e
Gestoria 250e-500e
Property transfer tax 4%-11% ( depends on region)
Go into it with your eyes wide open, I think that covers everything but may have forgotten something.
Don't forget when you come to sell you have all these costs again
loving your travels, hope you are happier being back in Spain

Yeah I had googled that and saw a bit ....I'm gonna cycle along to the estate agents later and if open I'll see if I can view the appartments I'm interested in. Of course it's all early days but when I set off to travel last year in Spain it was with the view of if I saw places I liked I'd investigate property prices and jobs etc and I never really did that. I plan to do it this time in Spain and in Portugal.
I think over the last month I've come to realise that living in the van fulltime and moving constantly is not something I can do long term, doing it solo is quite lonely and it's impossible to make friends or connections that way.

The working campsites in summer UK is still a possibility.
But so is finding an apartment here somewhere where I can find work etc
Nothing see in stone just thinking about my future , I love Spain and I love the coast..

First time I've been in this town and I like it but of course there are pro's and con's to everything.

Either way I plan to spend a few days here , I'm parked up a dead end street 2 mins walk from town and the beach 20 yards behind me

 

[Barclaybasher]

Tam anything North of Benidorm on the coast is cold,wet and dead in the Winter....except Barcelona (expensive though)...

 

[hilldweller]

Nothing see in stone just thinking about my future , I love Spain and I love the coast..

Unlike James Bond you only have one. "Love Spain, love coast" it's got to be worked on.

Someone we were talking to in Portugal did say that getting a "whatever" to reside in Portugal was dead easy compared to Spain.

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[suavecarve]

Question: is it worth buying a bigger property inland a couple of miles - no sea view so presumably cheaper - and having enough land to park motorhomes on and create a private aire ?

Could give a bit of income.

 

[Northernraider]

Tam anything North of Benidorm on the coast is cold,wet and dead in the Winter....except Barcelona (expensive though)...

Yep I expect it gets a harsher winter here than further south. But I think still better than UK and I couldn't buy a 3 bedroom apartment in a coastal town in the UK for the price of these. Like I said it's just ideas at the minute.
I wouldn't want to live in Barcelona tjoug h I didn't like it. But this seems a nice town , near the nature park , not far from Girona for airport etc ...good base for exploring other places overtime. Not too hot in summer

So a few positive things about it ....
But I plan to stay here a few days anyway do I'll see what I think of the place after that.

 

[Barclaybasher]

If you plan to work in that area in the Summer and travel in the Winter it would work

 

[busby]

Okay

So who is clued up about buying property in Spain?

Rule one is use your own Fluent English Speaking solicitor..not one recomended by the Estate Agent and you will need an NIE number..No 2 Rent first.BUSBY.

 

[busby]

Tam anything North of Benidorm on the coast is cold,wet and dead in the Winter....except Barcelona (expensive though)...

No its not,,Benicasim is decent weather and Valencia is always busy..BUSBY.

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[Northernraider]

Unlike James Bond you only have one. "Love Spain, love coast" it's got to be worked on.

Someone we were talking to in Portugal did say that getting a "whatever" to reside in Portugal was dead easy compared to Spain.

Only have one what ? I'm not understanding

Some parts of Portugal I would consider also ...I quite liked around Albufiera for instance and I think jobs around there for English speakers might be possible but can't speak a word of Portuguese

 

[Northernraider]

Question: is it worth buying a bigger property inland a couple of miles - no sea view so presumably cheaper - and having enough land to park motorhomes on and create a private aire ?

Could give a bit of income.

I like the coast though it's one of the reasons I first started all this as I was originally selling my house leaving my job and moving to gran canaria, the buying a motorhome and travelling Spain etc last year was an afterthought and then I decided to do a second year .....so really living somewhere near the coast in a warmer country was the original plan ....I just kind of got sideswiped.
My plans always change and never quite work out how I imagined ....but at the back of my mind I wanted to sell the house in the UK and change my lifestyle back then and it hasn't changed....only how I achieve and do it has changed
What I don't want is to fall in to the same routine back in the UK

 

[hilldweller]

Only have one what ? I'm not understanding

Some parts of Portugal I would consider also ...I quite liked around Albufiera for instance and I think jobs around there for English speakers might be possible but can't speak a word of Portuguese

Too subtle eh ! "You only live twice" but for Glaswegians it's only once, so make the most of it.

Funnily enough that conversation was in Albufiera from an English couple happy to spend months in the car park/aire there. It was a bit too much like a displaced persons camp for us, though the young guy running it was very pleasant. We moved down the road a bit to Armacao de Pera which was lovely, nice campsite, nice people. Millions of apartments, I think I heard it was excess German cash being put away for a rainy day.

 

[chaser]

Too subtle eh ! "You only live twice" but for Glaswegians it's only once, so make the most of it.

Funnily enough that conversation was in Albufiera from an English couple happy to spend months in the car park/aire there. It was a bit too much like a displaced persons camp for us, though the young guy running it was very pleasant. We moved down the road a bit to Armacao de Pera which was lovely, nice campsite, nice people. Millions of apartments, I think I heard it was excess German cash being put away for a rainy day.

Was in albufaira a month ago and there was talk among the locals that France and Portugal are in some sort of agreement for the French to buy in portugal at some sort of discount.

 

[Lenny HB]

No its not,,Benicasim is decent weather and Valencia is always busy..BUSBY.

We were around Benicassim area in February & March it was colder than the UK.

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