Do We Stay or Do We Go? - Part 7 of Our Story
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 3:09 PM
So just how did we turn the dream into a reality? It makes me giggle when I read some of the comments on the Eye on Spain site about people who want to come over here but they’re worried because they’ve only got £5,000 or £10,000. Wow, if only?! We would be surviving on a wing and a prayer. We sold everything we could, including our car. We gave away anything else that wasn’t of any monetary value. We packed boxes up of things we wanted to keep but wouldn’t be able to take with us and stored them with friends & family. We read every bit of information we could about Spain. We borrowed CD’s from the library to try and learn Spanish. I have to say that we are still struggling with the language but we do try and we are getting pretty adept at sign language. We started the long & expensive process of getting our dog his very own doggy passport. Our poor mutt hates the vets, so he wasn’t very impressed. We even gave him a really short hair cut because friends had said how hot it gets for dogs. He lost his beautiful long coat and instead of a beautiful Border Collie he now looks like a Pitbull. We squirreled away as much money as we could and started looking at travel costs to get out to Spain. In the meantime, we had gotten chatting, via Eye on Spain, to a British couple who were living out here. We sent emails to start with and then discovered the wonders of Skype. We would chat to them for hours, again gleaning every snippet of information we could about the lifestyle. They were in the process of moving apartments, going from a two-bedroom place to a three-bedroom. People’s generosity can be amazing some time. Restores your faith in humanity. The couple, who we hardly knew, apart from Skying, offered to put us up while they were going through their moving process. We were blown away by their offer. We then had to make a proper decision. Do we stay or do we go? We sat and wrote out a list of pro’s and cons - reasons to stay in the UK or reasons to head off on an adventure to Spain. Guess what? Spain won hands down!!
