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Teething Troubles

We are experiencing Teething Troubles trying to get all the bits of paper that you need to have to live in Spain legally, but we'll get there

Teething Troubles
Teething Troubles

Teething Troubles

We have been in Spain a fortnight now and things are going well, if a little too slowly to completely alleviate our anxieties over Neem’s visa. However, we are experiencing a few teething troubles.

I think that we have found out that our immediate goals need to be to get NIE (an ID card, I think) and Residencia (the right to live here) for the both of us.

We are waiting for a solicitor to get back to us, which is one of our teething troubles. Everything moves so slowly here, but our time is limited by Neem’s 90-day visa. Without those documents you cannot hire a room or an apartment, buy a car, or even a SIMM card, which means that Neem has to use Skype and Facebook to talk to her nearest and dearest back in Thailand, but not all of them have those facilities.

Another of our teething troubles took me all day today to identify, but it turned out to be as comical as it was annoying.

I use the Internet a lot every day, but yesterday, it suddenly became impossible to upload an article to this site. I kept trying and eventually went to bed. This morning, my email stopped working as well. It was too much of a coincidence, especially since the signal was strong and at 65Mbits/sec.

I submitted a support ticket and waited and nothing came, it could not because I had no email. Hours later, I checked my support ticket and was surprised to see that it had been archived as ‘Resolved’. Apparently, their firewall had detected a ‘mass attack by brute force from more than one computer at IP XXXXXXXX’.

I copied the IP Address to investigate and thanked them. WhoIs reported the IP location to be Marbella – just down the road from us.

A thought occurred, so I asked Google my IP. Yes, they were identical.

I had been accused of attacking my own website (although I only have one computer), and consequently blocked by the host’s firewall!

It took some time to persuade the support staff that I had moved to Spain from Thailand, but all is back to normal now. Still, why did it take them a fortnight to notice the Spanish Connection?

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Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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