The story of our move to Andalucia .... and our move back to the UK

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Thursday 29 October 2009

Introducing Bryan!


Bryan is my run-around pet-taxi. We got him yesterday and he is for when Neil is at golf all day and I want to run the pups somewhere, or just nip down into town for a bit of shopping or a coffee and a chat. We needed a little 'jalopy' and we called him Bryan to fit in with Brinkley and Brandy's names, beginning with BR.....

We found him on one of the local forums and it's taken a while to get all the relevant paperwork together. After the problems registering on the padron at our new place, I just renewed our padron locally. It appears that if you are already registered on the padron, renewal is not a problem BUT if you are registering for the first time, you now need your residencia certificate. We are due to apply for ours once we have moved into the new house, but fortunately didn't have a problem in getting a renewed certificate.

I then needed to get certified copies of my passport, NIE certificate and padron in order to get the paperwork transferred over at traffico, and also a copy of the car documents. Now, it would make more sense for the seller to get the certified copies of the car documents to hand over at the time of exchange and then it would be all sorted, but no, it's the buyers responsibility - so having been to the Notary once for the first load of papers, we now have to go again to get the car docs done and then drop those into the office, in order to have all the paperwork sent to traffico in Almeria and for the car to be officially transferred into our name. In the meantime we have a copy of the all the relevant documents, including the receipted invoice from the seller showing that we have paid for the car, incase we are stopped by the 'policia'.

So, we have had a bit of running around but we finally brought Bryan home last night!

1 comment:

Spanish Owner said...

Well, hello Bryan ! What a lot of faffing though eh ?