We must now be on the fast track LOL if you can call it that , our new appointment is not the stated 40 days but 26 days and as it's easier to get problems out of the way In one go we have a joint appointment at believe it or not high noon !
We've not decided if well go ourselves this time or get a solicitor to go in our stead , it's ok raising to the challenge and trying to conform to Spanish society but time is moving on and this needs to come to a end , we either get our NIE or we leave Spain for one of the other Mediterranean countries .
Now I've never run from anything but this place is insane the burocacy is mainly pointless and the rules are close to xenophobic. For a country that is happy to be a member of the family of European States and receive its share of economic support it treats visitors sorry family members like that cousin that nobody talks about .
i even got an attachment with the appointment explaining how a false financial statement is classed as fraud under EU law ! ME commit fraud ! The cheek of it they need to start a whole lot closer to home with that one ,
let he who has not got their hand out cast the first euro. Eh !
The lovely wife has been a little under the weather recently , suffering from a mystery rash all over her upper body having worked our way through the usual suspects like wash powder , soaps etc it just got worse. Now she didn't feel ill as such but it is unsightly and itchy oh so itchy . She had tried various lotions designed to soothe the chemists pocket but to no avail, So it's off to the doctor , but where ?
We ended up at the medico clinico , Mojacar . A nice Dr , Spanish with very good English and very attentive. After 45 mins he made a proclamation " your allergic " and " your stressed with high blood pressure " no Sh*t Sherlock ! He offered a diet sheet and asked do you know why you might be stressed ? By the time the lovely wife had listed all the issues with the rental and the NIE and her mom not been well and our daughter having a bumpy time at work plus her shares loosing 15% in a week ( I told her to buy into the post office , B&B and get her others back at the lower rate ) but no it's hassle ?? All of that for a lady of a certain age is too much.
The diet sheet has only 10 food items that are allowed , that incs olive , corn and soya oil plus chicken , white fish, rice and potatoes, for Deseret you can have melon, pear or lemon and that's it 10 items. Having tried this for a week along with more lotions and tablets the rash is going, I showed my support by following the same diet, well almost I put chilli sauce on most of mine !
On her return visit, we were all pleased to hear that the diet sheet was no more and the rash was almost gone , but as for the BP it was almost bursting ! " why are you so stressed " asked the Dr ? Well it was Friday the day after our visit to the office of the aliens and the lovely wife , not being one to bare a grudge ( much ) had been ranting on about our visit every time the subject arose, he said this is no good you will have to calm down , I've been saying that for 29 years 50 weeks and all I ever got was a sore throut ! So it's bi daily BP testing and a return visit in 6 weeks. The cost for these sage words €1 yes €1 , sorry per minute ! Attentive yes , chatty yes and on the same money as that other chatty man Alan Carr .