To build a house you need to have access to water. To mix concrete, to clean, to drink, to live. On rural land there are several ways to get water. If you are lucky and there are water mains nearby you can get connected to them. Otherwise you will need to get a share (acciones) in a community or a neighbors well. Or of course, get your own well. Since our land has no nearby water mains, and our neighbors are also pretty far away, we decided to make a well. To make a well you would have to dig or drill to the water table. In Spain that is…

Before we moved to Spain we started the process of buying rural land in the region we were moving to. Let’s start with the bad news. Since the process is so complicated and time consuming it still hasn’t finished yet. The entire land consists out of 5 different plots. At the moment, 4 out of 5 have been registered correctly. The registration of the fifth one will probably take at least another half year. The good news is that since last week the plot that we want to build on has finally been registered properly. So we are again a little step further and can now move on to the…