I mentioned previously that we are emigrating to Spain.
I booked the one-way tickets for our flight to Spain yesterday.
We are leaving Cork on the 21st of June, flying via Dublin, to Malaga on Sunday 22nd and driving from there to Seville.
It has taken a while to get things organised (and there is still loads to organise - broadband connection in Spain for example!) but now the move is very much a reality. Scary!
I’m going to miss Cork immensely but am looking forward to this new adventure.
UPDATE: Conor O’Neill of LouderVoice has very kindly taken it on himself to organise a going away Hasta Luego Blogger’s dinner on the 17th. Thanks Conor and I look forward to seeing as many there as possible.
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I’m in Spain at the moment. I flew over here on Sunday for my brother-in-law’s wedding. All good.
However, this has been a nightmare journey. I woke up on Sunday morning with a temperature of 38.8C. And Tomás, our four year old, had a temp of 38. We managed to get the kids and bags ready and arrived at the airport on time only to have our flight to Spain delayed by four hours.
We arrived at our hotel in Malaga (after deciding to overnight there) at 2:30am.
I drove to Seville the following (Monday) morning. I still had a high temperature and collapsed on the hotel bed when we arrived and awoke 3 hours later. I saw a doctor later in the day and he told me I had a bad lung infection and was heading for pnuemonia. I am now on antibiotics and getting better but still haven’t eaten since Saturday lunch!
To cap it all, Pilar and Enrique are now sick as well (Enrique’s temp was 39.9 last night) and there is no wifi in the hotel room so I am getting online extremely intermittently.
Still, the weather here is beautiful. I looked out the hotel window last night and one of the street signs which also gives the temperature was reading 17C. At 8pm. In January. Hard to beat that!
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I am back in Cork after the Eventoblog conference in Seville over the weekend.
Now I am helping with last-minute preparations for the it@cork conference. It is on this coming Wednesday and it is going to be a real ‘wow!’ event. Apart from the incredible speakers that are lined up, the delegate list is like a who’s who of the techosphere in Ireland. The networking opportunities are going to be superb.
If you plan on going and you haven’t registered yet, do it asap in case you unwittingly miss out!
The Eventoblog conference was great. I didn’t understand most of the talks (my excuse is that they were in Spanish!!!) but I had a fantastic time meeting the Spanish blogging community and the social events which were laid on were excellent.
I’m slightly less terrified about moving to Spain now!
[Disclosure - I'm the Chair of the it@cork conference organising committee]
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I arrived in Seville early this morning for the Eventoblog España 07 (EBE) conference.
My old friend Shel Israel is here with with his (much) better half Paula! Shel is presenting at the conference. I’m really looking forward to catching up with them socially as well as professionally.
This next few days will also be very useful for house hunting and networking for when we move here permanently next year.
Posting will be light for the rest of the week I suspect!
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I’m headed to Eventoblog España (EBE07) in Seville on November 23rd-25th.
I’m really looking forward to it, though it will be a bit daunting as most of the program is in Spanish!
This is the second year this event has been run. I spotted it last year when Matt Mullenweg mentioned that he was going to be speaking at it. I didn’t go then because of my lack of Spanish but I did help secure Microsoft’s sponsorship of last year’s conference.
Considering we are moving to Seville next year, this is an important one for me to attend.
As of last Saturday 866 people had signed up to go so it looks like it will be a great event.
If you are going too, why not leave a comment here and we can arrange to meet up.
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My wife Pilar and I have decided to move to my wife’s home town of Seville in the south of Spain next year. This is a decision we have been wrestling with for some time now but this summer’s lack of sun tipped the decision.
We are going to wait until the end of the school year before moving to minimise disruption for our elder son Tomás.
The move will be quite a change.
The biggest challenge, for me at least, will be securing employment in Spain. My Spanish language skills are less than rudimentary! In Ireland I do a considerable amount of consulting to local companies evangelising web 2.0 technologies. This won’t be possible after the move unless the local companies speak English (and very few companies in the South of Spain speak English).
If anyone knows of any good resources for becoming fluent in Spanish in 24 hours (!) I’d love to hear about them. Also, any/all tips or intros to employers in that region would be gratefully accepted.
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