Travel

Moving To A Foreign Country? — How Not To Do It

Top tips and a cautionary tale

Julie van Maanen
5 min readOct 6, 2021

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Just over a week ago, my husband, 3-year-old and I arrived in Vitoria, northern Spain, planning on a new life. We left Cuba three months ago and basically spent many weeks staying with friends in the UK, organizing paperwork, visas and Covid jabs so that we could come and settle in Spain.

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Julie van Maanen

Top writer in Parenting. Multi-lingual traveller, writer, learner, teacher. Raising my little girl in Cuba and Europe and cannot wait to show her the world.