Depositing Loose Change into your Bank Account in Spain

For the last 10 years I have been putting all my loose change into my kids piggy banks and  have accumulated 5 large, chockablock full, piggy banks.I opened a bank account for them here in Spain in order to deposit the proceeds of the piggy banks and have been informed that I simply cannot just dump a load of coins onto the bank teller’s counter,...
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Spain. Bank Seizure of UK Assets

Article Submitted by Mike Walsh.When Jackie Greenwood and her husband bought their apartment in 2002 the mortgage was an affordable €500pm. Things change, as they do, and the mortgage increased to €1,500pm. Powerless to get their licence of habitation and unable to sell they were in between a rock and a hard place.They decamped to the UK from...
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Spanish Tax Dates 2010

Thank you to the team at CCG for sending this 2010 spanish tax calendarContact CCG on:info@ccgspain.comwww.ccgspain.comTelephone: +34 902 486 000 2010 MOST FREQUENTTAX FILING DATES DESCRIPTION 10 January: This is usually the last day  to submit your documents20 January: Final filing dateIRPF – Professional &...
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Swine flu death in Marbella. An Epidemic in Spain

Ever since the first case of A(H1N1) swine flu virus reported in April this year, there have been several cases of death accounted in the last few months together with hundreds of laboratory confirmed cases.In one of the recent cases, a 34-year-old woman died on Nov 12, who was admitted to a hospital in the Marbella region.The latest victim in Marbella...
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Buying a Car, Transferencias, ITV and all the Secrets

Buying a car is a big step in anyone’s life, let alone when you are trying to settle in a new country with a different language you may not be completely familiar with.Going without a car is not really an option for most people on the coast and inland areas as the public transport system in Spain provides not much more than a basic service.Big towns...
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Cost of Living in Marbella

I thought it would be interesting for others to see how much basic items cost in Marbella for the person living here. Forget about Puerto Banus, that’s different, prices are more expensive at that end of Marbella, I am talking about prices in central marbella, the supermarket where us “commoners” go to buy our food stuffs.I have taken...
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Slumdog Millionaire and Subtitles in Spanish

English speaking films with foreign languages spoken in the film will usually result in spanish sub titles being shown, not english ones.A few of the cinemas down here on the coast kindly show films in the native language that the film has been made in and as most film releases are American or British, this usually means that the spoken language of...
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Vive la Opera – Ballet and Opera shown at Yelmo Cinema in Malaga

Could you please tell me how I can find out in advance when the Ballet and Opera transmissions at the Yelmo Multiplex in Malaga are taking place? I’ve been to a couple and they are absolutely fantastic. However they only appear on the Yelmo website just before they are about to take place. Peggy.In the end we figured out that what Peggy was talking...
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