One of my friends is hugely pregnant. She also has a very cute one-year-old. Today it was almost 30 ºC, and the last day to get the paperwork done for quarterly tax returns (mandatory for all freelancers in Spain, including my friend.) And the tax office has lots and lots of steps. And her partner had to go out. In other words, she needed a little help. So we went…
Fixing the Spanish economy, all by myself.
So I finally got my quarterly tax declaration in. This year, for the first time, I have to pay I.G.I.C. (Canarian VAT). After about 5 hours of extra paperwork (done by me) the government has netted an extra 17€. That’s 3.40€ per hour. Does anyone think that 17€ will fix Spain’s economy?
Mobile again!
Yay! We got the Yaris back. It’s so nice to be mobile again. And it doesn’t hurt to have transport with a working CD player, and which doesn’t smell of petrol.
Santa Cruz Tourist Office
When I first came to La Palma, the tourist office was in temporary accommodation in the third floor of an office building, with absolutely nothing at street-level to indicate where it was. Basically, you had to ask a local to find it. Obviously this left something to be desired, so they put up two signs: one at the south end of town pointing north, and one at the north end,…
Stuck!
And now the Berlingo’s bust. We have no working cars at all. [Update: it’s the water pump.] We’re going to try to manage without a hire car for a few days, but if the Yaris isn’t back by the weekend, I’ll need one to go to work on Saturday.
Cake and a view
Working hard Holy week was busy. After months of very little guiding work, I had three days work at the Roque in a week, plus a trip to the dentist, plus starting work on my next book. I was also running around the island distributing books. It made for long days, but there are compensations. Like when I visited the viewpoint at El Time to see whether the shop would…