Another Moving to Spain Thread (Nerja)

[mrypg9]

Originally Posted by rob1340

Hello there, good idea i think with volunteer work,great way to make contacts and may lead to something more .Iwill let you no if i come across anything.
There was a animal shelter looking for vounteers a few weeks back,don't no if they still are,may be worth a look.I believe i read about it in the costa del sol news.They suffered a lot of damage with all the recent rains.
good luck,
cheers Rob.

I think you mean the shelter at Mijas.
Most animal shelters can use volunteers - we've got three Dutch guys coming in August - but no way can most of these shelters offer pay or accommodation or transport. In fact I'd be very surprised to learn of any who can offer those things.
Fact is that unemployment in Spain is three times that in the UK.
Best to stay home for a few years.

[JoCatalunya]

Good luck, my son is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, German and can converse very well in Arabic, but he is finding it nigh on impossible up north to find work, many of his Spanish/Catalan friends are out of work or on short time.
This crisis has done for a good many folk but I wish you all the best and hope you find something when you come over.

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by vicarinatutu

Apologies for the thread revival but having signed up for workaways we've sorted a host out and we'll be flying out for the first weekend in May. Muchos gracias for these links pesky wesky, two great sites there.

We plan to stay with this first host for as long as we're enjoying it/proving useful/not out staying our welcome. Then the plan is to have mooch about Andalusia, doing more volunteer work, putting ourselves about, meeting people, hopefully try to pick up bits of the language and see what happens. He who dares Rodney and all that!

I would like to be prepared in the event of stumbling across the opportunity of some paid work (however unlikely). What sort of things/documents do we need to bring across in order to work/open a bank account etc? Any help much appreciated.

Cheers

Matt

Hope things work out for you Matt. At least you'll get some experience of life in Spain and of the best kind, working and living in the country with Spaniards.

There is a lot of info about bank accounts here and there's a thread about nie etc at the top of the main page...