The main problem is stuff getting sent from the UK to here. About 50% gets through, taking from a few days to a couple of months - and we are in town, not out in the campo. Of course there could be more go missing than we know about as not everyone likes to ask if we got their card!

Most expensive thing about posting cards is that a lot go missing...

"Spanish postal service" is an oxymoron!

Today's clamp down in Murcia has taken us to a closed regional border, 22 municipalities closed borders and no meeting anyone outside the household indoors or out - as well as the 10pm to 6am curfew.....

There are many people who have the skills and qualifications to administer the vaccine (particularly the less-twitcy ones that don't need to be kept at low temperatures and must not be shaken). Tatooists, beauty therapists, dental nurses etc all have most if not all that is needed, maybe after a sho...

olive wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:24 pm Motorhomes are still looking very attractive.

Until you look at your permiso de conducir and see that you lost the entitlement to drive the bigger ones that you never thought you would need....

Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico de Málaga
Calle Max Estrella, 12, 29006 Málaga
952 04 07 70
https://goo.gl/maps/s8Kkif34SzRNTtQn8

This really makes me feel less of a tech-twit - if Enrique, master of all things electronic can get caught out like this there is hope for the likes of me!

I think that anyone denying the existence and effect of the virus, or rambling on about it being some sort of big brother control plot should be made to serve time in a Covid ward, cleaning and tending to sufferers. This is real, kills people or has severe long-lasting effects and must be treated wi...

But a report of the press conference on this says “ Los turismos y motocicletas no podrán rebasar en 20 km/h los límites de velocidad en las carreteras convencionales cuando adelanten a otros vehículos.”
No wonder there is no consistent enforcement!

Seems to have been a change of mind: speed limits may only be exceeded to overtake by 20kph...

Transaltion from N322 " Personal Mobility Vehicles. - Vehicles with one or more wheels, equipped with a single place, powered exclusively by electric motors, such as scooters and Segways will be regulated, the maximum speed will be between 6 and 25 km/h. Vehicles for people with reduced mobilit...

Received our new EHICs the other day, having registered with UK govt for them, as S1-holding pensioners resident in Spain.
Of course these are not needed for the UK, but does give us cover in the whole of Europe except Spain. on the same terms as the residents of that country.

Sounds about right - the whole thing stank from the beginning!

Has anyone seen that las yucas on the high street in torre del mar has closed down? Its been there since before i have.. What a shame. Are you sure it is not just a staff holiday? They did seem to have the odd closed weeks when we lived down there, and were always busy when open. It was my retreat ...

It will probably be like the banks. Those having a lot of business with clients in a Euro country will consider it worth their while sorting out licences etc, others will not.

Interesting paddy: the server is in France, I am in Spain, the club is based in the UK....

I remember the early days of the MoT - I used to give a hand at the garage where I kept my race bikes, in the leafy suburbs of Croydon. There was more than one Captain Mainwearing type who would bring in an old Jag or similar and boast that we would not find anything wrong with his pride and joy. Up...

Possibly, just possibly a tiny benefit of Brexit! We shall see....

Not really the case mark - I have never claimed VAT back as it has always been levied and paid within the EU. With the UK no longer in the zone will they not have to/be able to charge VAT to anyone not in the UK? The whole VAT on clubs has been a bone of contention with golf clubs for example, and t...