Tags: Spain

Plus, Buying Property In Spain

March 10, 2025

Spain, Crete

All Of Your Overseas Retirement FAQs Answered

January 20, 2025

On January 10, I joined a few colleagues for the 2025 Top 14 Retirement Havens Webinar. Together, we introduced the top 5 winners for this year: Valencia, Spain Cascais, Portugal Medellín, Colombia Crete, Greece Mazatlán, Mexico Those of the nearly 15,000 registrants who joined us live were also able to ask us questions. Many of…

How To Celebrate Christmas In Your New Home Overseas

December 23, 2024

Merry Christmas! Wherever we find ourselves in the world, no matter how the day is celebrated locally, Christmas is a day for goodwill and good cheer… and perhaps some good rum, if you’re south of the border! Here are some of my favorite ways to celebrate Christmas in some of our favorite countries around the…

Coming Home To That Vacation Feeling

September 9, 2024

“At least it’s Paris we’re going back to…” I sighed to my husband and daughter as we packed up to leave Mallorca, where we’d been blissfully untethered from reality for the last 10 days. “Because Paris is the best city in the world, right mama?” My four-year-old grinned up at me with this aphorism that…

Expats Introduce Me To Their Dream Lives In Spain

August 5, 2024

Last year, I took a whirlwind scouting trip in Spain. Between two trips, I drove nearly the entire way across the country, from the French border to Plasencia, not far from the Portuguese border… While there, I became addicted to the typical Spanish breakfast: tostadas and café con leche. Nearly every day I was there,…

Meeting Friends New And Old In Valencia

July 29, 2024

We held our first ever Live And Invest in Spain Conference in November last year, and I eagerly look forward to hosting our second this September—I hope to see you there! Meantime, let me share my thoughts with you as I had them last year the day before our event kicked off… I arrived in…

The World’s #1 Retirement Haven (In Photos)

May 27, 2024

Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, has so many nicknames and claims to fame, it’s hard to highlight just one aspect of this remarkable city. City of Oranges… Designer city… (World Capital of Design in 2022) Àgora València, World Design Capital® Valencia 2022 ©World Design Organization   Most innovative city in Europe… (third place in 2022) Green capital of the…

Soak Up 3,000 Hours Of Sunshine A Year On This Dazzling Coast Of Light

May 13, 2024

Along Spain’s southwestern coast is an area you’ve probably never heard of... It’s called the Costa de la Luz, or the Coast of Light, and going from northwest to southeast, it stretches from Spain’s border with Portugal down to Tarifa, the southernmost point in Europe, almost touching Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, along the…

The 8 Best Things About Spain

May 6, 2024

As we prepare to launch our second-ever Live And Invest In Spain Conference (details coming soon…) I am thinking ahead to sunshine, seafood, and catching up with our local friends and colleagues in Iberia. As I think ahead to enjoying a week in the south this autumn, I’m reminded of all the things I love…

Portugal, Greece, Spain, And Beyond…

January 22, 2024

Last week we launched our much-awaited Overseas Retirement Index for 2024. In it, we revealed the top 13 places to retire overseas this year, from Latin America, to Asia, to Europe. Looking for an old-world retirement, rich with history, café lunches, wine on the terrace, and the kind of laid-back, cultured lifestyle that only Europe…