Where to start? We arrived April 14 and have been living in Barcelona for just about seven months now and it’s been a a good experience. Nik and I have learned a lot about what we like and don’t like about living abroad. We still have about six more months on our current rental before…
While in our Ukio rental, we began to look for our long term apartment, narrowing it down to the Eixample and Gracia neighborhoods. Long Term Rental In Barcelona, you don’t exactly work with a realtor but rather you search apartment listings on Idealista and reach out directly to the renting agent. Sometimes that can lead…
When Nik and I decided to move to Barcelona, we planned to start with a temporary rental so we could get familiar with neighborhoods and then decide on where we wanted to rent for the long term. An acquaintance I met on Facebook told me about Ukio, a newer company that specializes in furnished apartment rentals…
To stay connected with friends, family and 2-Factor Authenticated Financial Institutions we use a series of services that might seem overly complicated. Our major goals for staying connected while abroad were to keep our US numbers for when we return, be able to receive and make calls and SMS messages with ease and have a…
Once we decided that Lufthansa was the airline we wanted to fly to Barcelona, mostly because of their good reviews of flying animals, we decided to treat ourselves to business class seats. For the most part, their flights went through either Frankfurt or Munich, but only Frankfurt flights allow for animals. As we started looking…
Once we decided that we were going to make this move, my first point of attention was Koval and flying a dog to Barcelona with us. If you didn’t know, I’m a helicopter dog mom, and was most worried for him and his wellbeing. This is how we went about the process of flying Koval…