Spain
Top 8 Gay Friendly Countries
To determine if a country is gay friendly, we have to make sure that it passes on several factors. First...
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Top 4 Disability Friendly Countries For Expats To Retire To
For people with disabilities one of the most important things to find when searching for a haven is accessibility. There...
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San Fermín Festival: Running Of The Bulls In Pamplona, Spain
Ordinarily this time of year, Lief and I would be enjoying an adventure somewhere exotic and fun. This year this...
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English-Speaking Islands Where You Can Live Or Retire
On English-speaking islands you can enjoy island life with some of the familiarity of home. Visit or relocate to any...
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Portugal Vs Spain: Discover Which Is Best For You?
Spain and Portugal are two are neighboring countries with a long rivalry. These two nations have a lot in common...
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Diversify And Protect Yourself Against Another Coronavirus Situation
COVID-19 has been a wrecking ball to many savers and investors. Although we are still very much at the start...
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Real Expat Story: Moving To Valencia, Spain, Was My Destiny
There is a scene in the 2003 movie "Under The Tuscan Sun" that I now can identify as the moment...
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What Truffles and Ferraris Have in Common
Money may not grow on trees... But it can grow under them... In the form of one of the most...
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World’s Best Nude Beaches: 7 Places Where “Au Naturel ” Is In
Nudist beaches are a hot topic this summer. The warm weather has people thinking about their vacations, and thoughts turn...
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Costa Dorada, Catalonia: Affordable Old World Living In Spain
A day-trip to Barcelona or Cambrils? The biggest decision my family had to make over our two weeks spent on...
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How I Learned The Value Of Truffles And Why I’m Investing
One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I...
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Black Truffle Investment: Earn Up To 19% Yearly For 30 Years
My latest agriculture discovery is in Europe... But it's not a vineyard. It's a truffle plantation. What's a truffle? Well,...
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Best Small Town Living Options For A Relaxing Life Overseas
Collins English Dictionary defines a small town as a place “where people are friendly, honest, and polite.” While that might...
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A Taste of the World’s Best Spice Markets
“He who controls the spice, controls the universe.” – Frank Herbert, Dune Like a lot of things in modern life,...
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A Christmas In Spain & Portugal Planning Our Un-Retirement
This Christmas we were off to Portugal and for almost three weeks. It cost us less than 10 days at...
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10 Of The Strangest Christmas Traditions Around The World
'Twas the day before Christmas and all 'round the world, we creatures were stirring... Preparing for the big day, spreading...
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Bargain Prices And Medieval Buildings: Living In Castro, Spain
My high-powered, six-speed Opel was stranded... stopped partway through a turn onto a narrow, cobblestoned street, much to the annoyance...
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5 Top Places To Retire In Europe Today (Even On A Budget)
For the past week, we've been making the point that Europe is a more affordable live- or retire-overseas option than...
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11 Easy Ways For Making Money Overseas Quickly
11 Top Ways To Generate Income As An Expat When I made my move overseas two years ago, I knew...
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Venture Off The Tourist Track To Discover Barcelona, Spain
Where’s The Revolution? Getting To Know The Real Barcelona For a city at the heart of a revolution, Barcelona seems...
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Top 9 European Retirement Destinations
Retiring in Europe is about launching a new life in a new country, starting over in a unique place with...
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How To Start Investing In Real Estate Overseas With Success
How do you get started investing in real estate overseas? To borrow a page from Nike’s playbook... You just do...
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A Single Female Retiree’s Journal Of Her New Life In Madrid
It is an odd feeling. Definitely something is different about being back in Madrid this time. As a single female...
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Our 6-Month Trip To Uncover Europe’s Best Coastal Retirement
My wife Celine and I are a couple of retired European expats who were living a life in California that...
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My 5-Part Plan To Retiring In Europe As A Single Woman
Having made a move to Spain in 2016, I figured making a second move... this time to Portugal... would be...
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Life In Spain Was Too Irresistible For This Expat
How This Midwestern Lady Found The Support She Needed To Reinvent Her Life In Spain I found myself single at...
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Property Prices in Algarve, Portugal Vs. Costa Del Sol, Spain
Europe’s Most Tempting Coastline Is Also Its Best Bargain Portugal's Algarve and Spain's Costa del Sol are two of the...
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Winter In Paris And Barcelona Offers Low-Prices, Less Tourists
Bargain-Priced And Tourist-Free—Paris In Winter I'm back in Bangkok now after a three-week winter break in Europe. On the European...
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How To Profit From Real Estate Overseas
Four Ways To Profit From Real Estate Overseas (With As Little As $17,000) I'm finalizing the line-up for my 2016...
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Coastal Retirement In Valencia, Spain
Cultured Coastal Retirement In Europe Spain's third-largest city (after Madrid and Barcelona), Valencia, was hit hard by the 2008 property...
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Our Editor’s Picks For Best Places To Retire Overseas
True Confessions—What Our Editors Really Think Each year, we publish our Retire Overseas Index, rating and ranking the world's top...
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Cosmopolitan Living In Barcelona, Spain
Top Choice For Culture Vultures In Europe Seventeen years ago I flew into sunny, cosmopolitan Barcelona, thinking what a great...
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Top 8 Best Places To Buy Property In Europe
What are the reasons to buy property in Europe? Diversifying your portfolio into euro-valued real estate is a better idea...
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Retirement And Property Costs In The Algarve, Portugal, Versus Costa Del Sol, Spain
The Algarve Versus The Costa Del Sol Portugal's Algarve and Spain's Costa del Sol are two of the most tempting...
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Property In Marbella, Costa Del Sol, Spain
Sweet Spot Of Opportunity On Europe's Best Coast Sumptuous Marbella, nestled on Spain's southern Mediterranean coast, has long been a...
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U.S. Dollar Surging Against Euro, Colombian Peso, Brazilian Real, And Chilean Peso
U.S. Dollar On A Tear—Now Is The Best Time In 10 Years To Be Buying Property Overseas The U.S. dollar...
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Retire To Granada, Spain
"Granada sits on three hills at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, overlooking the plains of Andalusia. Built, fought...
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Christmas in Catalan
Lucy continues, on a more festive holiday note, reminiscing from her Christmases in Catalan: "Every Dec. 8, the Feast of...
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The Alhambra
Discover The Alhambra In Granada "The Alhambra," writes Correspondent Paul Lewis today, "that magnificent Moorish palace near the southern Spanish...
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The Great Catalan Yard Sale
Embracing Catalan Today I give you over to new correspondent Lucy Culpepper: “When we moved to Catalunya (Catalonia), in the...
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