"What will you then do, when you live down there?"

Many people have wondered how we will spend our time in Spain, when we move there. Do we just sit or lie in the Sun and drink alcohol day in day out? Is there really so much to do?

The answer is, of course we live normal life there. Of course, wheather being lovely most of the time where we live in Spain, we spend more time outside. I don´t remember us having dinner indoors during these two years but on Christmas Eve and day and maybe New Year`s day, as well.

What do two retired persons do if you count out washing, ironing, shopping, cleaning, taking care of the garden and all that jazz? To begin with ours is relatively old apartment, more than ten years, so there´s fixing and repairing going on all the time. We have a wonderful British handyman Shane, who always comes when we need something more difficult to do, like electricity, plumbing problems and such. But all the little chores Hubby does happily himself.

We sent three boxes of un-read books beforehand and have to buy larger bookshelves. 


We make long walks, we meet people in the village, we read newspapers. Hubby starts with his golf now, we found a Scandinavian group of golf-players nearby. I am busy with my writing, the aim is to write five books before I am too old.

And we will be learning Spanish, of course. I cannot think of living in a country too long without reading the language and the ways of life. Because I am interested in how the society ticks, there is a very exciting period going on right now when we move; the General Elections.

We will also keep contact to our friends all over the World by Skype, Facebook, email and also by writing this blog.

And since our new car is already waiting for us there, when we go, we will make all sorts of excursions in Spain and it´s neighbours. Later we will widen out our travel-territory and when we next come back to Finland, the plan is to drive through Europe and stop where we find it interesting.

Well, here´s some of the answers. And yes, we will consume alcohol, too. Good wine at dinner and some good brandy before going to bed. An odd beer every now and then in order to keep our neighbourhood bars in business when it´s quiet in Wintertime.