We spent a beautiful few months in Old Town Split right next to Diocletian’s Palace. January — March is beautiful and quiet in Old Town. The tourists start showing up towards the end of March and we didn’t want to stay in the middle of the tourist season in the tourist area. Living a decade […]
We arrived in Split in the morning by ferry. The first views of the city were absolutely stunning. It was nearly impossible to believe that we would be living in this place that looked straight out of a fantasy novel for a year. For our first three months here we have an AirBnB apartment across
We needed some down time after we disembarked from the Queen Mary 2. So we got a hotel minutes from the port to spend a few nights in. We started in Room2 in Southampton and it was an adorable hotel with a hipster vibe. We had an amazing suite in my favorite color. The pups
What we expected and what we got on our transatlantic crossing were very different. We honestly didn’t know what to expect, except for rest and relaxation. And we did not get that. We decided to take the Queen Mary 2 to move to Europe so that we wouldn’t have to fly the pups at all.
We arrived at the Empire Hotel in NYC on the 21st. It is right next to Lincoln Center and just a couple blocks from Central Park. We needed to be in NYC for the pups first veterinarian visit on the 22nd at Heart of Chelsea Veterinarian. Heart of Chelsea has a department that specializes in
We left our house in Nashville on December 12, 2022 to start driving north. We left the house a little later than we had hoped, so we made our first stop just a few hours north of Nashville in Bowling Green, Kentucky and spent the night at my parents house. We are so glad it
Things change. After the last several years we know that better than most. We’ve been planning a move to Spain for several years. Our original plan won’t work because of Visa issues and misunderstanding on our end. This was going to set us back around a year. It was a pretty devastating blow. But as
We knew that this wouldn’t be as easy as it seemed like it would be in February when we spoke to the immigration attorney. It all just seemed too easy, and it was. The Non Lucrative Visa. In February we were told we could get this visa and continue working jobs in the USA. Last
We started by doing some Google research when we were first considering retiring overseas. Spain has a few Visas that we were interested in for retirement, the non-lucrative and the golden Visa were the most desirable for retirement. The non-lucrative visa is for people who do not need or plan to work while in Spain
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