We've been in our Bilbao apartment for a few days short of a month now. Which brings a challenge. How do we pay rent for June? In Spain, most payments like this are made through direct bank transfer. Someone gives you their bank information, and you send the
I hope to write more about the process, but since we've been in the apartment that we'll be living in for the next year or more for a week, I wanted to quickly share some info & photos. We landed a lease in an apartment in
(I'm finishing writing this today, but I started writing it several weeks ago, for context.) We've been moving cities every 7 to 14 days since Feb 17th. And yes, we're doing relatively ok. Part of it is that we all have a need for
Even though I knew it was coming, even though this is close to the top reason we left the US, I was completely unprepared for the dramatic shift in my felt experience of safety upon landing in Spain. I was hoping and expecting to feel safer as a queer and
We're in a strange moment in our travels. We're in our last city that we are ostensibly scouting out to see if we want to live here: Santander. We are halfway through our two week stay here. But, we've actually already chosen to settle
Pippin is doing their first organized Spanish activity this week. It's Spanish spring break (the week before & after Easter), so I signed Pippin up for circus camp. It seemed like the easiest introduction to joining in on a Spanish activity because Pippin had taken circus class in
(I wrote this over a week ago, on March 29th, I think? Finally getting it actually posted because I was able to figure out how to pay for the platform after the two week free period.) We completed our time in Oviedo on Friday, March 27, still pretty unimpressed with
On Friday, March 13th (yes, Friday the 13th!), I (Sofia) drove in Spain for the first time. We had traveled by train on our last city-to-city route, and the stress of hauling way too much stuff for 3 adults, plus the stress of trying to get to a
Having a clothes dryer in your home is not standard in Spain. In fact, it's quite unusual. And, the washing machine lives in the kitchen, built in like dishwashers are in the US. You're supposed to dry your clothes in one of two places: a special
One of my (Sofia's) goals for this trip is to visit the ocean/sea/bay/whatever saltwater body of water is closest to where we're staying in each place we stay at least once, with Pippin. Today was that day for our Bilbao stay! 30 minutes
We (Morgan, Sofia, Tui, and Pippin) are moving/have moved (?) to Spain. We flew here 18 days ago. It's confusing, because we've moved away from Seattle and we're in Spain. We haven't settled anywhere or even decided where we're settling.
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