When a child starts full-time education in Spain, it is much earlier than in the UK. My daughter started three weeks ago and she was only 2 years and ten months old.
Needless to say, it was with some trepidation that I went to see the headmaster of my local school in Andalucia, a couple of weeks before the end of the Summer term. At the time a new school was being built in the village so I found a temporary elementary school based in someone’s house! Everything was very informal, I did not need to make an appointment with the headmaster, and I only needed four papers to register her, my passport, my husbands passport, a copy of my empadrimiento document*, and the record of her vaccinations. He spoke no English to me on my first visit but I got by with my Spanish explaining what I wanted.. I was given a formal Registration Certificate.
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The biggest frustration of living in Spain is paperwork…….for the sake of paperwork. No wonder there are no proper trees anywhere - they’ve used all the forests (if there ever were any here in the first place) in making life as difficult as possible for you to obtain such simple things as your “residencia” or your “health card”.
You end up taking “everything” with you, including all bills (just to prove you live where you say you do), your marriage certificate (just to prove you´re married to the fella you’ve towed along with you), your padron (to prove you actually live here at all), your divorce certificate from 25 years ago (just in case), your passport (once again to prove who you are, but as the passport is almost 10 years old, you now look nothing like the photo).
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I asked myself these questions many times before moving to Spain. As a rule cars tend to be more expensive in Spain than in most other EU countries, certainly compared to the UK. So I asked myself why I just don’t drive my UK plated car out there? I had also seen lots of British cars on the road whilst on holiday. I think these are your choices :-
