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Support Our Go Fund Me: Buy an Incubator for Newborns
Go Fund Me project It is Christmas eve, and we decided to make official our Go Fund Me project: My kingdom for an incubator! It has already been a long time since we planned to start a fundraising campaign to buy an incubator. However, our life and finances got stuck since the pandemic. We had
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Buying a Second-Hand Car in Spain as an EU Passport Holder: NIE, Gestor, Bureaucracy and What you Should Be Aware of
It took only a couple of weeks to find a car suitable to our needs. However, it took months to finalize the buying process. Here we tell you what, in our opinion, you should do and what you can avoid when buying a second hand car in Spain.
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The Finnish entourage in Fuengirola and why we chose not to live in the Spanish “little Finland”
Fuengirola is the Spanish town where most Finns like spending their time. Today there are around 8000 Finns resident and living their life in the sun in this town in Costa del Sol. We considered the option to move their too, one day, but we decided for a different possibility: Costa Tropical.
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Lenticular coulds.
What are those clouds with a shape of a pancake? The lenticular clouds, a stunning phenomenon that can be spotted above the mountains. How are the lenticular coulds formed? We tried to explain it.
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AS SWEET AS HONEY
Beekeeping has roots in the tradition of Andalusia. We met and interviewed Paulina Rivas, a beekeeper from Gualchos-Castell de Ferro who shared with us a page of her intense story and passion for her work.
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Finally in Spain!
Moving to Spain requires a certain organization. Leaving one own’s country needs some support as well as registering and moving first steps in the new country. This post provides general guidelines for registering in the new town: empadronamiento.
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La Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos
The Epiphany, or día de los Reyes, is one of the most important Spanish Christian celebrations. The kings arrive to town on the 5th of January and give presents to all children.
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Where is what? Geography, towns, territorial denominations within Costa Tropical.
Where is Costa Tropical? It is the land comprised between the Axarquía malagueña and the Alpujarra almeriense. Which towns belong to Sierra de la Contraviesa? This reading is for you, if you want to learn quickly how to localize towns and name the diverse areas of Costa Tropical, a charming area in the province of…
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Some figures and info about the agriculture in Andalusia and in Costa Tropical: greenhouses and Tropical fruits
Spain boasts a long agricultural tradition, as other countries in the Mediterranean region. Agriculture represents the main economic income of Andalusia. Andalusia and Spain in general have developed an intense activity of export and R&D. Since the last decades, the Andalusian agriculture has important figures in both, the national international market, participating with a relevant…
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Our exploratory trip to Andalusia. First stop: Costa del Sol.
We decided to organize an exploratory visit to Andalusia. In this post, we tell you about our first stop in Costa del Sol and the area around Málaga where usually many Finns spend their winter holidays.
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The water resources and their management by the Mancomunidad de Municipios Costa Tropical
How is the climate change challenging Costa Tropical? We have investigated what are the reserves of water of Costa Tropical and discovered that the Mancomunidad de municipios de la Costa Tropical is implementing interesting projects for developing infrastructures.
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Searching home in Spain from abroad. What are the best ways and websites?
Looking for a house in Spain is easier if you start to screen the possibilities using some websites. In this post we tell you about three sites that, according to our knowledge, are most used in Spain.
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How Castell de Ferro introduced us to Costa Tropical
We found out that Castell de Ferro is a village on the coast of Granada with a weather that is among the best of Spain. With almost 300 days of sunshine Costa Tropical is a little paradise in Andalusia.
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Great changes arise from great challenges
What made us decide to move so far from Finland? Great challenges have changed our life in such a way that we decided to reset our life somewhere else. Spain was our destination.
Welcome to our blog! I’m Paola, and I have started this blog together with my husband Ari to describe our journey to Spain with the spirit of reporting our adventure with a pinch of creativity. We hope that the outcome is going to be helpful to families or people like us. What kind of people are we? We love nature, we are looking for a place that is beautiful and culturally stimulating, good food, and welcoming people. All what Spain seem to be able to offer. But follow us, and let’s see together what we are up to!
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