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Originally Posted by Irishgirl

Hey,
How are you getting on? Im living in sitges about an hour from you. My hubby is also working away. I cant help you with places to learn spanish in your area but If you dont mind me asking why did you choose that area?
Sitges has a great port, lots of expats and good schools to learn spanish and is so beautiful!!
Thats my advertising for Sitges done for today!! LOL. Hope your getting on ok so far

Hi there, Irishgirl. Sitges does sound lovely...maybe we should have put it on list when we were searching for a winter berth?

It's a bit of a long story why we ended up in Badalona but, basically, we got a bit anxious about ending up with nowhere to go after fellow yachties gave dire warnings about needing to book early for winter. Port Vell marina in Barcelona city (our preferred option) said that they could put us on a waiting list but there was no guarantee of getting anything; the other two marinas didn't even reply so, when Badalona had a berth available we just booked it, even though we were hundreds of miles away at the time and weren't able to visit to check it out. Actually, I'm beginning to quite like the area and the transport links are very good. The downside is the lack of other people living aboard their boats so it's not quite so easy to meet people and I imagine it's going to be a bit lonely at times.

I think I might be sorted out with Spanish lessons, so that will give me something more to do, and hopefully make it easier to communicate (at least in more than two word phrases and gestures!).

Where in Ireland are you from? I spent 3 weeks in Arklow on a stopover back in June when we were on our way here, I loved it!

[gulfcoast]

Hi Guys:

Not sure if I am on the right page but just found your website and looking for info like evrybody else.

Moved over from Florida on a one year contract and presently staying with family in the UK, which gets stale after a while.

Looking at possibly getting a long term rental in Spain???? as I travel Eastern and Western Europe and just need to be close to airport.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Gulfcoast

[Suenneil]

Originally Posted by gulfcoast

Hi Guys:

Not sure if I am on the right page but just found your website and looking for info like evrybody else.

Moved over from Florida on a one year contract and presently staying with family in the UK, which gets stale after a while.

Looking at possibly getting a long term rental in Spain???? as I travel Eastern and Western Europe and just need to be close to airport.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Gulfcoast

Hi Gulfcoast and welcome

Good to see you on here ..... if you are looking for info specific to Spain then I would recommend you starting a new thread on the Spain forum page ..... you will definitely get more replies ans help from those of us living over there now,

Best of luck!
Sue

[gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Suenneil

Hi Gulfcoast and welcome

Good to see you on here ..... if you are looking for info specific to Spain then I would recommend you starting a new thread on the Spain forum page ..... you will definitely get more replies ans help from those of us living over there now,

Best of luck!
Sue

Thank you Sue, I will do that.

[jimenato]

Hello all - we have lived in Jimena de la Frontera in Cadiz province for three years having previously lived in Estepona for six years. I'm getting hacked off with getting ripped off and getting bad service from big companies - mostly telephone and internet companies so I have some questions and maybe suggestions. I'll try not to be too much of a grumpy old man, I love it here really....