Since March the coronavirus hit Spain hard. Spain is actually one of the worst hit countries in the world. At the height of the crisis Spanish TV was showing hospitals completely overrun by patients, with people on chairs in corridors and even laying on the floor. Currently Spain has 222.857 confirmed cases (Spanish). The only country with more confirmed cases is the USA. However, because of Spain’s lower population, the amount of confirmed cases per 1.000.000 inhabitants is much higher compared to the USA. It has been so bad that the public hospitals couldn’t handle the situation. Because of this, Spain has temporarily nationalized all the private clinics and hospitals…

Last week a heavy storm wreaked havoc in Spain. The storm, named Gloria, made headlines all over Europe. It seems the storm was strongest in the regions of Alicante, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. But also in our region we experienced 4 days of really bad weather. The longest since we moved here. During these days it was rainy and only around 11 degrees Celsius, which is very cold for this region. This may still sound like an okay winter temperature for many other Europeans, but houses here aren’t built for that type of cold. They are built to lose the heat in summer! During the day our heating system…

Since our last blogpost a lot of things have been moving in the right direction, slowly, and as always with a few setbacks. As we have said in our last blogpost, the road to the land was our number 1 priority this summer. And so, we contacted several companies to see what they would advise us and what the costs would be. Apparently it’s going very well with the local road building businesses, because one of them didn’t want to give us a price yet, because they wouldn’t have time for another 3 or 4 months. Anyway, we decided to continue with a company that had time and wasn’t too…

Breaking news! We have bought a Spanish car! During the last few months we were lucky enough to be able to borrow a car, but that time is over. So recently we have been visiting several cardealers in the region. The only thing we knew about cars is that they can get you from A to B. So we had some help from our parents and a family friend. Which turned out to be very useful. Because when you are searching for a car with a budget as low as ours, there are a lot more bad than good cars. Our new car is an old piece of German engineering.…

Hey all!! As some of you may know, we are Maja & Hilbert (Hipcio for our Polish friends). A while ago we decided to move to the country of great food, amazing architecture, stunning nature, ancient history and a really nice climate; España! Here we want to enjoy the sun build our home in the middle of nature, where we hope to receive guests in the future. On this blog we will keep you updated on what we are doing, what can be seen in our region and how it is to move to a country foreign to the both of us. Besides regularly visiting our blog, you can also…