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Sorry to hear about your Mum, Alex, she did a great job in setting up a website for Begur.  I went to post a reply to your news, but your message seems to have disappeared from the website.  I'm letting you know because apart from anything else, your request for donations to the Princess Alice Hospice won't be live if the message has inadvertently been deleted.

Best wishes to you.

Alison

Can anyone help me please. I am trying to  buy a second hand car in the Girona area -  17004.

Any information/experience and suggestions would be most appreciated.

Many thanks

Brendan

Hello ,

I recently noved from UK to Spain and saidly I need to let go of my Toyota. The car has British plates and registration and is right hand drive . It has 70k on it . I don't want to scrap as the car is in good condition but I don't want to go to the hassle in register the car in Spain , I'm already on the verge of a nerve breakdown with the papery I need to do for myself. Ideally I'm looking for someone with a British address so I can transfer the ownership. MOT expires next October and road tax in April. If you are interested you can wazzap at +4407427881606

Thanks

Hi thanks for reading my message. We have lived and worked in the Caribbean for the last 10 years and now looking to retire to Europe. We like the area of northern Spain because we think we can lock up our house and drive to France, Italy, Switerland, etc. 2 hours to Barcelona by train and as we are from the U.K. we envisage doing the odd trip to drive back to the U.K. and visits places that normally we would not visit. My question is can anyone recommend a location we should take a look at. At this moment we have no real idea of an area we my look to settle. 

In our minds eye, we would like to be in a town Center where we can walk to restaurants. We need to be close to the ocean and we like to be involved in an fair size expat community. We are not look for rural countryside, or an area that is say primary Spanish.  We enjoy nice Restaurants and good company with people who can hold a conversation. We are visiting Spain for about a month in September and would love to hear any suggestion about places we should go and take a look. Last September we visited Barcelona. Which we loved but don’t think is a place for us to live. We had lunch in Roses but not much of a look round but it had a nice feel. Stayed a night Cadaques, which was very nice but not sure it’s what we are looking for. We wold love to hear any suggestion. You leave reply’s here or email up at pp6000@hotmail. looking forward to hearing any suggestions. 

We are sorry to say that Jan, my mother and founder of this website, recently passed away after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jan enjoyed working on this website and helping others, and you may be interested to know the following background about her and our website:

In 2004 Jan started a web-based group for expats in the Cuidad Quesada area in Spain for a small group of friends and residents, where they could discuss living in the new development within the area and share ideas. At the time, there was limited information and help online for people in their position, and excited by the thought of reaching more people in similar situations, Jan started the www.talkquesada.com website in 2011 with the aim of creating a friendly and informative place for people to visit for everything to do with Quesada. This friendly online community has since grown considerably, as today it stands at nearly 12,000 members.

Based on the success of Jan’s Quesada website, she then started more websites covering other areas in Spain, as well as a website for the UK. After all of Jan’s hard work, she has gained nearly 100,000 members in total across all the websites.

Jan loved nothing more than helping people find useful information that she wished she could have found herself when she first thought about living in Spain and buying a property there.

Please feel free to share your thoughts and thanks to Jan for any help she may have given you over the years, either personally or through the help her websites have provided. Or if you’re new to the site hopefully you will find Jan’s experience and legacy helpful to you.  We will continue Jan’s work keeping the website up to date, encouraging discussions and exchanging useful information. 

We have also set up a Just Giving page in memory of Jan, to help raise money for the Princess Alice Hospice, in the UK, which cared for her so kindly during her final days. Princess Alice Hospice rely on donations and fundraising to keep going, and provide a wonderful service for those who need it. Here is the link if you wish to kindly donate:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jan-forums

I will be carrying on Jan's websites in her memory as this is what she would have wanted. For the moment please bear with me while we get up to speed on everything.

Thank you,

Alex

I need the PADRON document for register a new car

We will be staying in a hotel near Sant Feliu de Guixols in July that doesn't allow dogs. Can anyone recommend dog kennels/ dog boarding local to Sant Feliu de Guixols? Thanks!

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