The Unadventurous Traveller

The Unadventurous Traveller We returned from our Spanish holiday, to our house in France in July and felt energised to pack everything up, tie up all the loose ends and move on. We had a whole house full of furniture and many things that we had acquired during our five and a half years there (I do have some hoarding tendencies, and often think things will ‘come in useful’). The house was so large that it was quite easy to store jam jars for those jam making days and old clothes to cut up and make into cushions or Barbie clothes etc! (please tell me I am not the only one?  I think this is down to being brought up with a frugal, non-wasteful mindset, anyway...) This was July, so we had all summer to sort this out and get the children settled and in to school by September if possible. We didn't have an actual date for when we would sell our house, but it was looking like September. Furniture Dale was quite clear that when moving to Spain we wouldn't want a lot of French furniture ...

The Unadventurous Traveller So the decision was made, we're moving to Spain! Exciting! Could we actually buy this chapel with hermitage attached and live happily in Spain? Would the kids be ok moving to a new country, leaving their friends, their new language and their lives behind? How would us adults get on, not speaking much/any Spanish, let alone Catalan, would we make friends? If we had the internet, then I could work, but there were so many things to get arranged and sorted first. We needed a 'holiday' or chance to tackle some of my growing 'To do' list to see if this was possible and to enable us to start our lives in Spain fairly painlessly. So we organised a five day trip, staying at a small hotel/villa with a pool in L'Ametlla de Mar . Things we needed to sort out before we moved to Spain: 📑 Find a temporary house to live in, ideally in the same village to the chapel, while we do the work on the chapel  (IF we do actually buy it!) 📑 Look at the chape...