work.

I’ve been working for four weeks already. Alicante has been treating me well. My usual working hours are from 8-16h and we could leave early in one of the last four weeks. I work 40h a week and in Spain it’s normal to have the lunch break included. Except that it‘s not a lunch break...

comida.

I love food and I enjoy going out to eat. In my opinion I have a simple taste and ordinary food makes me happy. I enjoy trying out new restaurants, nice views and a good atmosphere. While in Hamburg I only had a few problems, when something was too posh for me. Here, things are...

first month.

Yes, I've decided to move to another country. Inside of Europe. With my boyfriend, that is a native and already has a job there. That knows the language, obviously. That has family living close by. To a touristic area where you can easily find Germans. Where the landlord puts all information in Spanish and English....

waiting.

Sometimes you know something big is going to happen. Something life changing. Or you just hope it will. I feel like I've spent the last months waiting. Waiting for the final job confirmation with my boyfriend, waiting for my last day at work, waiting for flights that were always delayed, waiting for my apartment to...

bureaucracy.

Germany is known to be very correct. Lots of offices, lots of paperwork, slowly working officers... and in the end you need another paper to confirm you have received this paper. So I was expecting something less complicated in Spain. Oh well. Everyone has a number here. While I was used to signing contracts and...

altea.

I fell in love with this city immediately! Altea resembles an Andalusian town with the white houses and colorful flowers, the view over the sea and the mountains, narrow streets full of life and music. Compared to Benidorm and even other towns close by, Altea gives you the feeling of vacation. The city is divided...

style.

People in Spain have a different style they said. Maybe you need to buy new clothes I thought... Before moving to Spain my image of Spanish people was influenced by my boyfriend and Spanish friends I made in the last years. And it's true! They dress nicely, men use dress pants or dress shoes, women...

guadalest.

Nature in all its beauty. Guadalest is not far from Benidorm and was one of the first places I went to visit here. The official number of inhabitants is only 220 but Guadalest is visited by more than 2 million tourists each year. When you get there, parking lots are waiting for you already but...

vida nueva.

I landed at 00:32 am. Late, as always on this flight. But this time there were technical problems so we all happily waited inside the airplane at the airport until everything was fixed. Goodbye Hamburg and hello Benidorm! The view from our apartment is amazing, we look down at the skyline of Benidorm, one of...

home.

Hamburg, meine Perle. Hamburg is considered to be the most beautiful city in the world. You can ask everyone born here and also many people living here agree. It's Germanys second-largest city after Berlin, close to the sea and influenced by the river Elbe. Famous for the red-light district and its party areas, lots of...