Applying for self-employed sick pay in Spain.

A lot of people from the UK react with shock horror when I say that I am still Valerie Collins. They expect me to have a Spanish married name: some sort of aristocratic double or triple barreled mouthful: at the very least an exotic and probably unpronounceable surname.
But many of them don’t realise that even [...]

Recently I fell foul of La Ley de Falta Uno (The Law of One Thing Missing), which, as formulated by us, states that you can never ever complete a bureaucratic transaction in one go. Even something as apparently straightforward as picking up a registered letter at Correos is also subject to the law, as I [...]

We all know what a Garlic Moment is.  Send us yours and we’ll post the best: they should not only be amusing but also helpful and instructive.  To kick off, here’s Georgina Tremayne from Barcelona with – what else? – a telephone problem.
Fatal Construction
Moving from one apartment to another apartment in the same town isn’t [...]

Does fighting the bureaucrats wear you out?
Do you always have a form missing?
Do you feel lost when applying for government subsidies?
Well now you can practice with the hot new game…

Practice your Spanish while falling around laughing. Here’s a transcript of the original Spanish and an English translation courtesy of In The Garlic.
This hilarious clip [...]