Soooo busy

We’re planning to head over in May!

Had a quote from a few removal firms to take our belongings over for us and they are so expensive.  You suddenly realise when you walk around your home and a man with a clipboard jots it all down; just how much rubbish we have accumulated over the years!

So I have been busy taking pics of all our decent stuff and selling it on Ebay and Gumtree!! Some has gone to friends and Charity shops.

But a HUGE amount has just gone down the tip or recycling!!

Need to get to the bare minimum of things to take, if I don’t love it or need it – then it must go – as I can’t afford to pay thousands of pounds for someone to take my rubbish to Mallorca for me!

Off to sort some more now…..

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Hard work

Finding it hard to get all the info. With your home town you know which are good areas and which to avoid. You know where the good schools are, where the jobs are, where the best restaurants are! A whole new island and I don’t know where to even start!

It is so hard to relocate,  I suspect that we are going to have to just head over and hope for the best! I can see many house moves on the horizon, before we get it just right!

Need all the help we can get… so thank you

People are so helpful, we have had so many people email us and help us with the tricky decisions we are having to make.

Getting information about anything in Mallorca is so difficult when you are not there and do not speak the language (yet)! So many people have been helping us, with opinions, information, links, ideas etc and it’s all from people who already done it. It make us feel so much more able to make these difficult decisions and have people to turn to when we get lost in it all.

The kindness we have received from everyone, not only when in Mallorca but back in the UK too, has made us feel so much more comfortable about our Mallorcan dreams and attempting to turn them into a reality – you have taken some of the fear away – so THANK YOU ALL!

Decisions Decisions!

Back in the UK for now!

Lots of decisions to make about schools, where to live, what to take and when to go!

Looking at the schools in person has made things far easier in regard to making a decision on where to school the children and whether to go for a mainly English or Spanish school.

We now believe that it is really important for the children to speak Spanish fluently if we are to make Mallorca our (and thier) home permanently, this obvously has a large impact on which schools we prefer. It all then comes down to places and which ones are available to us, both state and private are over subscribed at the moment!

Lots of thinking to do…

Beautiful beaches

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What can I say except wonderful!

Been to visit one public, and one private school so far. Off to visit another public and private school tomorrow – so many decisions to make. Although visiting the schools in person has made so much difference to our thoughts on schooling the children here in Mallorca.

Where better to contemplate all the options than here on the beach and what a view …

Turning dreams into reality

cropped-033.jpgFinally sold our house, so here we go….!!

First things first we need to sell all the rubbish we have accumulated over the years before the sale goes through!

Then we need to find somewhere to live in Mallorca. Hubby wants to go North Island near Pollensa but it may be too far to travel to the International schools – maybe we should send the kids to a local school?

So we’ve booked a flight to visit Mallorca with our two children (both 8 years old) for next week to visit a few International and local schools and speak to estate agents, accountants, language schools (so we can learn some Spanish) etc.

Hopefully  we will get some answers to the many questions we have whizzing around in our heads and then we can make some final decisions about our move to Mallorca!

If you’ve already done it and are now in Mallorca or thinking of making the move – let us know, we’d love to hear from you.