We can see what looks like a small headland or point from the living room window and have seen lots of people walking to it. It turns out it is an ancient pre Roman fort and they are currently doing…

Well, after a few days of not knowing what was happening, on Friday 28th October we finally moved into our new house. But what a week it was! On Thursday 20th Ian drove to Burela to sign contract and make…

Although it feels we must be on at least plan x by now! Sadly, one of the vendors of the property died at the weekend which was obviously a sad situation for the family and we didn’t know what was…

That tiny dot by the arrow is Ian on the beach at Burela. There are a couple of webcams which show the beaches It was a bit tricky working out which dot Ian was, particularly as the webcams only…

This will be our new home from 1st November (or maybe earlier). It’s in a hamlet called Fontao, which is in Lugo, Galicia (top left corner of Spain). We’ve signed the sale contract on our current house. It’s the…

Good question! On the positive side of things, we have the contract for the sale of here which we’ll sign when we see the buyers next Tuesday. We have the documentation from the Notary about the correction of the details…

Ian left Fuente De Cantos at midday on Sunday and arrived in Ferrol about 9pm ish. He went via a car share service which I think worked out OK. He’s looking at a few houses and saw a couple yesterday,…

Well, we’re getting ever closer to agreeing a sale with potential buyers. Annoyingly, our house paperwork wasn’t correct so that threw a small spanner in the works, however I think we’ve agreed a way forward. This isn’t going to be…