September 27, 2024 • 18 mins
Living and Working in Spain with David Wright:
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Your Essential Guide to Spanish LifeUnlock expert advice and practical resources for living and working in Spain with David Wright.
Visit David Wright's official website to explore his NEW membership platform, offering personalized mentoring and guidance on all aspects of Spanish life—from residency and visas to work opportunities and lifestyle tips.David Wright is a seasoned author of six popular books, available on Amazon and Kindle, and has been featured on major media outlets like BBC News and Channel 4’s A Place in the Sun. With 22 years of firsthand experience living in Spain,https://www.davidwrightonline.com/
David shares invaluable insights via his expert network and informational websites.Don’t miss The Wright Way, David’s live radio show, every Thursday from 2-4 PM on Almeria Gold 95.5 FM and every Friday at 4 PM on Almeria Radio 107.5 FM (Spanish time). Stay up-to-date with essential tips and discussions on everything from legal matters to cultural integration in Spain.
Join the thriving expat community by connecting with David’s Expats in Spain Facebook group, where you can engage with like-minded individuals and access expert advice on living in Spain.Tune in to David's podcasts and radio shows featuring top guests and actionable insights for making the most of life in Spain.
Special thanks to our sponsors, USTaxesSpain.com for tax services for Americans in Spain, and IndaloTransport.com for sponsoring the show. Get your free quote today!Stay connected with essential hashtags:
#LivingInSpain #WorkingInSpain #DavidWrightOnline #VisasForSpain #ExpatLifeInSpain #BritishInSpainSpecial thanks to GeckoGrafix for creating David’s motorbike website.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
That's Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you ready.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Helping people who are working in Spain. It's the Right
Way with David right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Very good afternoon and welcome to the Right Way with
me David right here on our Maria Radio one O
seven point five FM Next hour. I got coming up
on the show. I got loads of tips and advice
on living and working in Spain, some new information about
the airport check ins and talking about healthcare here in
Spain and the new health card that's come out a
little bit more about that later on in the show.
(00:51):
Great music today, John, thanks for that keeping this entertained afternoon,
and take it easy out there on that bike this weekend.
Have a great time. So let's kick you off with
a Spanish on straight into this one with Antonio and Benderis.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's Friday and Friday feeling, getting you into the mood
for the weekend. The comments section is open. Shard live
to the DJ right now via our website.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And here he is, the legendary Davis n A very
good afternoon to Sylvia in Leeds, whatsoever right there in
Leeds at the moment, Sylvia and a guy as well,
Thanks for Johnnys in the comment section. So yeah, the
comment section has rebooted, so come and keep me companies afternoon.
More tips and advice and news coming up today on
the show. And it's Friday, so it's Wine Time Friday.
(01:39):
A bit of difference this afternoon on Wine Time Friday.
Stay tuned in for that. Another great tip coming up
as well. And next week Live in the Studio got
Amy Bingham from the My Wyne Expert from Madrid. It's
going to be live in the studio giving us a
great recommendation. That's next week as well, So remember to
come and listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That and that Friday feeling you into the mood for
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
David Right, help and advice for living and working in Spain.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You're listening to the Right Way, Right Way with David Right.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And a very good afternoon to Lynn and John O
Los g joining us in the comments section. Yeah guy,
Hi guy as well. About electric scooters. Yeah, I've covered
this a few times about electric scooters. There's lots of
rules and regulations and they seem to be changing almost
weekly now with electric scooters. But yeah, the thing that
I see a lot around where I am in al Maria,
especially in town and on the main roads is most
(02:36):
of the people are not wearing crash on us and
is obligatory to wear crash helmets on scooters. And a
lot of the kids here, especially in the mornings too
up on the scooter. That is illegal. You can get
fined for that. And also electric scooters will be prohibited
in some areas such as sidewalks and pavements, tunnels and
interurban roads depending on the local council areas. They make
(03:00):
their own rules for this as well. And yeah, there
are strict limits on speeds for the scooters as well.
And all scooters will need to be registered. I think
this is coming already. You need when you buy the
scooter needs to be registered with you. They are talking
about having separate insurance for all scooter owners as well.
Don't think that's official at the moment. They still talk
(03:21):
on that one. But they're coming in under powered bikes
and things like that, so there are more rules and regulations.
This is all because there's been so many accidents on
these scooters for these youngsters. And I did see. I
was out on the motorbike test trial lessons and things
like that this week, and you know round a major
roundabout here in and mari are very very busy round
(03:42):
about at eight o'clock in the morning and there was
a guy on a scooter. They got a light on
the scooter and it's a really little light on the
back of the scooter. He's dressed all in black. It
was dark this morning, and there loads of cars and
he's weaving in and out. You know, you're taking your
life in your hands with these scooters, so you need
to be very very careful and try and follow the rules. Now,
(04:03):
if you want to find out all the rules on
regulations on electric scooters, then over on my information page.
I've got a post I did about that with all
the rules regulations and what you can and can't do
on the electric scooters. That's davidwrightonline dot com information page.
Paul Simon there and you can call me out. Good afternoon,
(04:23):
Andy joining us in a section and Robbie, Hi, Robbie, Yeah, yeah.
I can't keep up with these scooter rules. It seems
to be changing almost weekly now and they are a
bit of a pain around and Maria City. On the pavements,
on and off the roads. It is illegal to cross
the road on a scooter. You're supposed to dismount and
(04:44):
walk it across the road. Same as cyclists as well.
If you're cycling on the cycle tracks, you're supposed to
dismount at traffic lights and crossings and actually walk across.
Nobody does here. Nobody seems to be getting fined either.
But yeah, you're supposed to have crash out. It's on.
And as I said about the insurance, now, this is
the same with the dogs and a PETSI a little
while ago, at the beginning of the summer, they brought
(05:04):
out a thing where you're going to have to have
pet insurance for all pets in Spain. That was put
on hold, and there's talk about the insurance now for scooters.
Every scooter owner will have to have a registration now
talking about some sort of l plate or license plate
like a car, and have a insurance as well. But
(05:24):
that hasn't materialized at the moment, but I think it's coming.
That's five o'clock straight after my show today. And yeah,
talking about five o'clock, I was up at half past
five this morning getting myself ready for my driving lesson,
believe it, and I had a motorbike driving lesson at
seven o'clock this morning. It told me to get there
just before seven, so I had to get into alm
(05:45):
Moria seven o'clock. It was even dark at seven o'clock. Unbelievable,
but there you go. Yeah, it's the only time it
could fit me in until the middle of next week.
I've got to get a few lessons in. This is
for my bigger motorbike test here, so I'm out on
the road now. I've been through the theory past that
fourth time, luckier past that, and pass the track and
(06:07):
slalom and the speed test through the cones, past all that,
and now it's the out on the road on a
bigger bike. G hats to be done on a four
hundred cc or above with the driver behind you in
a car, the instructor driving around giving you directions through
the headphone set. And yeah, so I had to be done.
Had to get out there this morning, and in the
(06:29):
middle of al Maria City with all the major traffic,
a bit of a nightmare with someone's shuting directions in
Spanish in a headphone set, bit garbled, lots of trafficet
this morning. It was dark. The motorbike's new to me.
It's a bigger, more powerful motorbike, and all the lights
and everything. Yeah, it's a bit of a troll bar
fire out there today. So that's my second lesson, a
(06:51):
bit better than the first one a few days ago,
but you's still loads of errors. Now. Everybody likes to
think that they're a great driver, as I think I'm
pretty good with, you know, driving since I was seventeen
years old, passed my test first time in the UK.
Been driving motor bikes for over twenty odd years now,
but even so, making loads of little mistakes, things like
(07:13):
lane positioning and clutch control and putting your feet down
at the wrong spot and crossing the lines. It's quite
mind boggling the habits that you do pick up here
when you're driving. And we're going to be talking a
little bit about roundabouts as well, because it seems like
a lot of people, mostly Spanish, don't have a clue
when it comes to roundabouts and it's a bit of
(07:35):
a frightening experience, especially at seven o'clock in the morning
in the city when it's dark. And I tell you a
little bit more about that after this bit of aerosmith.
There live David.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Wright, David Right, David David David.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The Afternoon Show a very good afternoon to Rita. Join
us in the comments section. Yeah, so, yeah, they park
on the roundabouts. That's funny parking on the roundabouts here.
There's a few little roundabouts around where I live. And
the other day I was driving around in the car.
This was and the car in front of me had
stopped and had hazards on, and so I tooted him
(08:10):
and I looked at it again. I took him again
and it was no one in the car, and I
looked over to the right. The guy had gone in
to buy some cigarettes. So it hold up all the
traffic while he's parks on this roundabout to go in
and buy some cigarettes. I everyone had to wait. Seemed
I was the only one tooting him, and he looked
a bit upset, you know that I was tooting him
even But there you go a bit of audacity some
of them. But there you go, anyway, talking about roundabout.
(08:32):
So yeah, going round the roundabouts here on the motorbike.
I was talking to my instructed Doe about this and
something I've been doing on the motorbike. This is for
a while when you're going round and roundabout. If I'm
around in the outside lane, I always if I'm going
all the way round the roundabout, or going round past
the first couple of exits. I signal left to sort
of indicate that I'm staying on the roundabout. It's something
(08:55):
I've done that I found that it helps protect me
a little bit. Otherwise, people coming up on the inside
on the left seem to cut across the lane, and
so my instructor told me not to do that. You
can get penalized for doing that in the exam. It
is a good idea, he said, and he does it
himself when he's on the motorbike. But don't do it
in the exam. You're supposed to go on the outside
lane all the way round the roundabout. You don't need
(09:17):
to signal and to your belt to get to the
turn off. You signal, then past the last possible exit,
ready for your exit. Now you can use it in
a lane, but he advised me to stay in the
outside lane. Keep it simple, and go all the way
round until you approach your exit in the outside lane.
So many of the Spanish people here they go on
(09:38):
the inside lane, which you can do, but you're supposed
to indicate to change lanes and then stop. Turn the
indicator off and then indicate again to exit. There's two
separate maneuvers. You're changing two different lanes. But so many
of the Spanish people don't do it. They just cut
across that straight lane. And that's why you see so
many of these accidents here. Pretty much every day here
(09:59):
in ol Maria. See somebody with a little bang where
they've cut across in front, where somebody in the outside
lane is going all the way round the roundabout. That
is the correct way to do it. I've done a
post on this. There's a couple of videos on my
information page showing you the right and wrong way to
go around the roundabouts here in Spain. If anyone's interested.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What this is al Maria Radio sponsored by Albot's Insurance
award winning agents with one Friday and Friday Feelings getting
you into the mood for the weekend.
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What tune in now and join the play if you're
listening to the Right Way with me David right here
on Amia Radio A one on seven point five FM
on a Friday afternoon. And yeah, So one more thing
about driving here in Spa that caught me out the
(11:01):
other day and I sort of read about this in
the handbook the highway code, the Spanish highway code, and
I was taking my theory exam a few months ago now,
but even so, it's caught me out the other day. Now,
when you see a stop sign here, that's the stop sign,
the sign on the side of the road and also
(11:21):
in the road, a painted straight line with the word stop,
you have to stop at the stop sign. That means
not just slow down, you have to stop physically stop
for a couple of seconds before you can move on. Now,
there is an exception to this. So this caught me
out the other day. Now, there was a traffic light
and the traffic light was red. I stopped at the
(11:43):
traffic light, obviously, and then I pulled forward and there
was a stop sign, and I stopped again at a
stop sign. That's wrong. That's a point against you in
the test. And apparently, when there is a traffic light
and it's green, you do not stop at the stop sign,
even if it's about one hundred yards in front of
that traffic light. You just continue through it. The traffic
light takes preference over the stop sign. And yeah, so
(12:06):
that caught me out, So just be aware of that.
Here in Spain, the green traffic light the traffic lights
always have priority over a stop sign, but it's a
bit of a gray area that one as well, because
depends how far away that stop sign is. If it's
a few hundred jars down the road, then you know
I would stop again. The other thing as well is
at a cross section across roads when there's park cars
(12:28):
and you stop at the stop sign on a motorbike,
this is probably the same for a car. You have
to technically stop, put your feet down and stop for
account of a couple of seconds, and then if you
can't see properly, you have to pull forward and stop
again so that you can see before you can go.
So yeah, it's like a double stop. So lots of
little rules and regulations you need to follow here, and
(12:50):
I'm getting back into it, trying to get used to
it again. There you go. So next one up. This
one I played on my show Yesterdy'm got to play
it again because I quite like it and believe it
or night, it's very, very oper It's had eighty three
million downloads. Eighty three million downloads, to be honest, before
I played it yesterday on my show, I haven't really
heard about it. Not a great fan of this artist.
(13:10):
But there go, Billie Eilish. Yeah, I can tell you
some stories John from my twenty two years about driving
and the police. Just the other day, I was early
in the morning going to pick up some materials in
town and I stopped and had a coffee, went into
a local coffee bar, and sitting at the bar was
two traffic police. Their car was parked right outside the
(13:32):
bar with the hazards on. It was parked okay, but
it had hazards on. Anyway. They're sitting at the bar
with a coffee each and a brandy each. This is
about eight thirty in the morning. It might not have
been brandy, but it was definitely a brandy glass and
it looked like alcohol to me. But there go. I
was very tempted to take a picture, but I thought
a better not chance it. Time for Artists of the
(13:52):
Week now.
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I was just saw the week. This week is the
Darkness and this is love is only a feeling. Love
is only a feeling, Okay. So I talked yesterday about
the health card, the new health card, the digital Health Card.
This is out now for the Alakanti area and it's
going to be going all over Spain very very soon. Yeah,
this is the health card now, so if you've got
(14:25):
you're paying into the health system. Here, you get this
social security card. It's like a credit card with all
your details on there. So when you go to a
doctor appointment or you go to the chemist or anything
like that, you have to produce your health card to
get your medicines or get appointments. Well, they're going all
digital up in Alacanti and it is now available on
an app that they've got live now in Alacanti area.
(14:48):
This is going to be going all over Spain. It's
not out anywhere else at the moment, but it's in
the process of being put out as this app. So
you'll be able to not need to carry this card
on you at all time. You can just do it
through the app and you can access some of your
medical history and records and things like that all through this.
I think you can do appointments and make appointments through
(15:09):
the app as well. But yeah, so it's out and
now in Alacanti and this is going to be available
very very soon for the rest of Spain, coming soon.
So I'll keep you posted on that one. This app
is just making it more easy for people, less things
to carry in your wallet, and you'll be able to
do a lot more through the app as well, and
we're looking more into that, but it looks quite good
at the moment. And if you're getting a pension here
(15:31):
in Spain, a UK pension, then remember you've got the
you probably got the S one form. Apparently this app
were allowed to put all the details onto this app,
so you don't need to carry any paperwork with you.
It can all be accessible by your mobile phone. So
that's good news. Maybe, yes, So where we go Now,
let's have a bit of kyli menoo. I think, well,
(15:51):
it's Friday, it's wine time Friday, and Amy's not with
us at the moment today, so I'm going to give
you a quick tip. One of the drinks that I
this is sort of a wine. I suppose it's it's
called Tinto Varano and probably if you've been living in
spainful a little while, you have tried this, and it's
one of my favorites. If you're not into drinking too
heavily or just want to refreshing, drink tinto Varana, well
(16:12):
that is It's basically it's red wine. Half a glass
of red wine and half a glass of cassra. Cassara
is like a fizzy clear lemonade, slush of orange juice,
a slice of maybe lemon and some ice, and it's
a very refreshing drink. Indeed, the Spanish drinking a lot,
lots of Spanish friends drink that. Probably fifty percent of
the time they're out having a drink, they would order
(16:34):
that out in the street. It's not normally an evening
a drink. It's mostly drunk during the daytime, a lunchtime
as well, if you're having something tweet. It's a drink
that you can have with your lunch, but just use
any red wine you like, and half of it is
lemonade or they use what they call cassera here. It's
a fizzy lemonade, clear lemonade. So yeah, very refreshing drink indeed.
(16:57):
And next week Amy Bingham, my wine expert, will be
live here in the studio and she's going to be
giving us a couple of recommendations and going to be
into depth a little bit about some wed red wines
and some white wines that we can buy locally here
in the Andaluthian area. That's live on my show next week,
so stay tuned in for that. Okay, So thanks to
(17:19):
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(18:04):
quote as well. Okay, thanks very much everybody for joining
me and I'll leave you now with this one. I
hope you have a wild weekend.
That's Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you ready.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Helping people who are working in Spain. It's the Right
Way with David right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Very good afternoon and welcome to the Right Way with
me David right here on our Maria Radio one O
seven point five FM Next hour. I got coming up
on the show. I got loads of tips and advice
on living and working in Spain, some new information about
the airport check ins and talking about healthcare here in
Spain and the new health card that's come out a
little bit more about that later on in the show.
(00:51):
Great music today, John, thanks for that keeping this entertained afternoon,
and take it easy out there on that bike this weekend.
Have a great time. So let's kick you off with
a Spanish on straight into this one with Antonio and Benderis.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's Friday and Friday feeling, getting you into the mood
for the weekend. The comments section is open. Shard live
to the DJ right now via our website.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And here he is, the legendary Davis n A very
good afternoon to Sylvia in Leeds, whatsoever right there in
Leeds at the moment, Sylvia and a guy as well,
Thanks for Johnnys in the comment section. So yeah, the
comment section has rebooted, so come and keep me companies afternoon.
More tips and advice and news coming up today on
the show. And it's Friday, so it's Wine Time Friday.
(01:39):
A bit of difference this afternoon on Wine Time Friday.
Stay tuned in for that. Another great tip coming up
as well. And next week Live in the Studio got
Amy Bingham from the My Wyne Expert from Madrid. It's
going to be live in the studio giving us a
great recommendation. That's next week as well, So remember to
come and listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That and that Friday feeling you into the mood for
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
David Right, help and advice for living and working in Spain.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You're listening to the Right Way, Right Way with David Right.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And a very good afternoon to Lynn and John O
Los g joining us in the comments section. Yeah guy,
Hi guy as well. About electric scooters. Yeah, I've covered
this a few times about electric scooters. There's lots of
rules and regulations and they seem to be changing almost
weekly now with electric scooters. But yeah, the thing that
I see a lot around where I am in al Maria,
especially in town and on the main roads is most
(02:36):
of the people are not wearing crash on us and
is obligatory to wear crash helmets on scooters. And a
lot of the kids here, especially in the mornings too
up on the scooter. That is illegal. You can get
fined for that. And also electric scooters will be prohibited
in some areas such as sidewalks and pavements, tunnels and
interurban roads depending on the local council areas. They make
(03:00):
their own rules for this as well. And yeah, there
are strict limits on speeds for the scooters as well.
And all scooters will need to be registered. I think
this is coming already. You need when you buy the
scooter needs to be registered with you. They are talking
about having separate insurance for all scooter owners as well.
Don't think that's official at the moment. They still talk
(03:21):
on that one. But they're coming in under powered bikes
and things like that, so there are more rules and regulations.
This is all because there's been so many accidents on
these scooters for these youngsters. And I did see. I
was out on the motorbike test trial lessons and things
like that this week, and you know round a major
roundabout here in and mari are very very busy round
(03:42):
about at eight o'clock in the morning and there was
a guy on a scooter. They got a light on
the scooter and it's a really little light on the
back of the scooter. He's dressed all in black. It
was dark this morning, and there loads of cars and
he's weaving in and out. You know, you're taking your
life in your hands with these scooters, so you need
to be very very careful and try and follow the rules. Now,
(04:03):
if you want to find out all the rules on
regulations on electric scooters, then over on my information page.
I've got a post I did about that with all
the rules regulations and what you can and can't do
on the electric scooters. That's davidwrightonline dot com information page.
Paul Simon there and you can call me out. Good afternoon,
(04:23):
Andy joining us in a section and Robbie, Hi, Robbie, Yeah, yeah.
I can't keep up with these scooter rules. It seems
to be changing almost weekly now and they are a
bit of a pain around and Maria City. On the pavements,
on and off the roads. It is illegal to cross
the road on a scooter. You're supposed to dismount and
(04:44):
walk it across the road. Same as cyclists as well.
If you're cycling on the cycle tracks, you're supposed to
dismount at traffic lights and crossings and actually walk across.
Nobody does here. Nobody seems to be getting fined either.
But yeah, you're supposed to have crash out. It's on.
And as I said about the insurance, now, this is
the same with the dogs and a PETSI a little
while ago, at the beginning of the summer, they brought
(05:04):
out a thing where you're going to have to have
pet insurance for all pets in Spain. That was put
on hold, and there's talk about the insurance now for scooters.
Every scooter owner will have to have a registration now
talking about some sort of l plate or license plate
like a car, and have a insurance as well. But
(05:24):
that hasn't materialized at the moment, but I think it's coming.
That's five o'clock straight after my show today. And yeah,
talking about five o'clock, I was up at half past
five this morning getting myself ready for my driving lesson,
believe it, and I had a motorbike driving lesson at
seven o'clock this morning. It told me to get there
just before seven, so I had to get into alm
(05:45):
Moria seven o'clock. It was even dark at seven o'clock. Unbelievable,
but there you go. Yeah, it's the only time it
could fit me in until the middle of next week.
I've got to get a few lessons in. This is
for my bigger motorbike test here, so I'm out on
the road now. I've been through the theory past that
fourth time, luckier past that, and pass the track and
(06:07):
slalom and the speed test through the cones, past all that,
and now it's the out on the road on a
bigger bike. G hats to be done on a four
hundred cc or above with the driver behind you in
a car, the instructor driving around giving you directions through
the headphone set. And yeah, so I had to be done.
Had to get out there this morning, and in the
(06:29):
middle of al Maria City with all the major traffic,
a bit of a nightmare with someone's shuting directions in
Spanish in a headphone set, bit garbled, lots of trafficet
this morning. It was dark. The motorbike's new to me.
It's a bigger, more powerful motorbike, and all the lights
and everything. Yeah, it's a bit of a troll bar
fire out there today. So that's my second lesson, a
(06:51):
bit better than the first one a few days ago,
but you's still loads of errors. Now. Everybody likes to
think that they're a great driver, as I think I'm
pretty good with, you know, driving since I was seventeen
years old, passed my test first time in the UK.
Been driving motor bikes for over twenty odd years now,
but even so, making loads of little mistakes, things like
(07:13):
lane positioning and clutch control and putting your feet down
at the wrong spot and crossing the lines. It's quite
mind boggling the habits that you do pick up here
when you're driving. And we're going to be talking a
little bit about roundabouts as well, because it seems like
a lot of people, mostly Spanish, don't have a clue
when it comes to roundabouts and it's a bit of
(07:35):
a frightening experience, especially at seven o'clock in the morning
in the city when it's dark. And I tell you a
little bit more about that after this bit of aerosmith.
There live David.
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Wright, David Right, David David David.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The Afternoon Show a very good afternoon to Rita. Join
us in the comments section. Yeah, so, yeah, they park
on the roundabouts. That's funny parking on the roundabouts here.
There's a few little roundabouts around where I live. And
the other day I was driving around in the car.
This was and the car in front of me had
stopped and had hazards on, and so I tooted him
(08:10):
and I looked at it again. I took him again
and it was no one in the car, and I
looked over to the right. The guy had gone in
to buy some cigarettes. So it hold up all the
traffic while he's parks on this roundabout to go in
and buy some cigarettes. I everyone had to wait. Seemed
I was the only one tooting him, and he looked
a bit upset, you know that I was tooting him
even But there you go a bit of audacity some
of them. But there you go, anyway, talking about roundabout.
(08:32):
So yeah, going round the roundabouts here on the motorbike.
I was talking to my instructed Doe about this and
something I've been doing on the motorbike. This is for
a while when you're going round and roundabout. If I'm
around in the outside lane, I always if I'm going
all the way round the roundabout, or going round past
the first couple of exits. I signal left to sort
of indicate that I'm staying on the roundabout. It's something
(08:55):
I've done that I found that it helps protect me
a little bit. Otherwise, people coming up on the inside
on the left seem to cut across the lane, and
so my instructor told me not to do that. You
can get penalized for doing that in the exam. It
is a good idea, he said, and he does it
himself when he's on the motorbike. But don't do it
in the exam. You're supposed to go on the outside
lane all the way round the roundabout. You don't need
(09:17):
to signal and to your belt to get to the
turn off. You signal, then past the last possible exit,
ready for your exit. Now you can use it in
a lane, but he advised me to stay in the
outside lane. Keep it simple, and go all the way
round until you approach your exit in the outside lane.
So many of the Spanish people here they go on
(09:38):
the inside lane, which you can do, but you're supposed
to indicate to change lanes and then stop. Turn the
indicator off and then indicate again to exit. There's two
separate maneuvers. You're changing two different lanes. But so many
of the Spanish people don't do it. They just cut
across that straight lane. And that's why you see so
many of these accidents here. Pretty much every day here
(09:59):
in ol Maria. See somebody with a little bang where
they've cut across in front, where somebody in the outside
lane is going all the way round the roundabout. That
is the correct way to do it. I've done a
post on this. There's a couple of videos on my
information page showing you the right and wrong way to
go around the roundabouts here in Spain. If anyone's interested.
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on a Friday afternoon. And yeah, So one more thing
about driving here in Spa that caught me out the
(11:01):
other day and I sort of read about this in
the handbook the highway code, the Spanish highway code, and
I was taking my theory exam a few months ago now,
but even so, it's caught me out the other day. Now,
when you see a stop sign here, that's the stop sign,
the sign on the side of the road and also
(11:21):
in the road, a painted straight line with the word stop,
you have to stop at the stop sign. That means
not just slow down, you have to stop physically stop
for a couple of seconds before you can move on. Now,
there is an exception to this. So this caught me
out the other day. Now, there was a traffic light
and the traffic light was red. I stopped at the
(11:43):
traffic light, obviously, and then I pulled forward and there
was a stop sign, and I stopped again at a
stop sign. That's wrong. That's a point against you in
the test. And apparently, when there is a traffic light
and it's green, you do not stop at the stop sign,
even if it's about one hundred yards in front of
that traffic light. You just continue through it. The traffic
light takes preference over the stop sign. And yeah, so
(12:06):
that caught me out, So just be aware of that.
Here in Spain, the green traffic light the traffic lights
always have priority over a stop sign, but it's a
bit of a gray area that one as well, because
depends how far away that stop sign is. If it's
a few hundred jars down the road, then you know
I would stop again. The other thing as well is
at a cross section across roads when there's park cars
(12:28):
and you stop at the stop sign on a motorbike,
this is probably the same for a car. You have
to technically stop, put your feet down and stop for
account of a couple of seconds, and then if you
can't see properly, you have to pull forward and stop
again so that you can see before you can go.
So yeah, it's like a double stop. So lots of
little rules and regulations you need to follow here, and
(12:50):
I'm getting back into it, trying to get used to
it again. There you go. So next one up. This
one I played on my show Yesterdy'm got to play
it again because I quite like it and believe it
or night, it's very, very oper It's had eighty three
million downloads. Eighty three million downloads, to be honest, before
I played it yesterday on my show, I haven't really
heard about it. Not a great fan of this artist.
(13:10):
But there go, Billie Eilish. Yeah, I can tell you
some stories John from my twenty two years about driving
and the police. Just the other day, I was early
in the morning going to pick up some materials in
town and I stopped and had a coffee, went into
a local coffee bar, and sitting at the bar was
two traffic police. Their car was parked right outside the
(13:32):
bar with the hazards on. It was parked okay, but
it had hazards on. Anyway. They're sitting at the bar
with a coffee each and a brandy each. This is
about eight thirty in the morning. It might not have
been brandy, but it was definitely a brandy glass and
it looked like alcohol to me. But there go. I
was very tempted to take a picture, but I thought
a better not chance it. Time for Artists of the
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Darkness and this is love is only a feeling. Love
is only a feeling, Okay. So I talked yesterday about
the health card, the new health card, the digital Health Card.
This is out now for the Alakanti area and it's
going to be going all over Spain very very soon. Yeah,
this is the health card now, so if you've got
(14:25):
you're paying into the health system. Here, you get this
social security card. It's like a credit card with all
your details on there. So when you go to a
doctor appointment or you go to the chemist or anything
like that, you have to produce your health card to
get your medicines or get appointments. Well, they're going all
digital up in Alacanti and it is now available on
an app that they've got live now in Alacanti area.
(14:48):
This is going to be going all over Spain. It's
not out anywhere else at the moment, but it's in
the process of being put out as this app. So
you'll be able to not need to carry this card
on you at all time. You can just do it
through the app and you can access some of your
medical history and records and things like that all through this.
I think you can do appointments and make appointments through
(15:09):
the app as well. But yeah, so it's out and
now in Alacanti and this is going to be available
very very soon for the rest of Spain, coming soon.
So I'll keep you posted on that one. This app
is just making it more easy for people, less things
to carry in your wallet, and you'll be able to
do a lot more through the app as well, and
we're looking more into that, but it looks quite good
at the moment. And if you're getting a pension here
(15:31):
in Spain, a UK pension, then remember you've got the
you probably got the S one form. Apparently this app
were allowed to put all the details onto this app,
so you don't need to carry any paperwork with you.
It can all be accessible by your mobile phone. So
that's good news. Maybe, yes, So where we go Now,
let's have a bit of kyli menoo. I think, well,
(15:51):
it's Friday, it's wine time Friday, and Amy's not with
us at the moment today, so I'm going to give
you a quick tip. One of the drinks that I
this is sort of a wine. I suppose it's it's
called Tinto Varano and probably if you've been living in
spainful a little while, you have tried this, and it's
one of my favorites. If you're not into drinking too
heavily or just want to refreshing, drink tinto Varana, well
(16:12):
that is It's basically it's red wine. Half a glass
of red wine and half a glass of cassra. Cassara
is like a fizzy clear lemonade, slush of orange juice,
a slice of maybe lemon and some ice, and it's
a very refreshing drink. Indeed, the Spanish drinking a lot,
lots of Spanish friends drink that. Probably fifty percent of
the time they're out having a drink, they would order
(16:34):
that out in the street. It's not normally an evening
a drink. It's mostly drunk during the daytime, a lunchtime
as well, if you're having something tweet. It's a drink
that you can have with your lunch, but just use
any red wine you like, and half of it is
lemonade or they use what they call cassera here. It's
a fizzy lemonade, clear lemonade. So yeah, very refreshing drink indeed.
(16:57):
And next week Amy Bingham, my wine expert, will be
live here in the studio and she's going to be
giving us a couple of recommendations and going to be
into depth a little bit about some wed red wines
and some white wines that we can buy locally here
in the Andaluthian area. That's live on my show next week,
so stay tuned in for that. Okay, So thanks to
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quote as well. Okay, thanks very much everybody for joining
me and I'll leave you now with this one. I
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