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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Noise for David right, David right, David, David, very good
afternoon and welcome to the Right Way with me David
right here on El Maria Radio A one oh seven
point five FM.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Big thank you to John Alex Their for Kimner Centertains afternoon.
Thank you John. Have a great weekend. Loads more chips
and advice coming up on the show today about living
and working in Spain. Got some new rules and regulations
out for this summer. If you're thinking about going to
the beach cyclists new rules as well and renting property
out some rules and regulations that might be of interest
to you. That's all up on the show today. And

(01:01):
some great music as well, Joe House Rock there from
Elvis Presley. Tune in now and join the play the

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afternoon show. That section is open.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Shad live to the DJ right now my our website
and here he is, the legendary Davis So.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
A bit of a special day to day six of
June d Day, nineteen forty four commemorations allured forces and
ended in Normandy on this day to day at the
end of World War two or the beginning of the
end of World War Two there ended about six months later.
One hundred and fifty six thousand troops landed in the
French Stare on this day in nineteen forty four and

(02:03):
twelve thousand planes acrossed the channel there, dropping bombs, ammunitions
and god knows what else. And yeah, there was ten
thousand casualties in the first day alone there. So that's
the sixth of June D Day. And my father was
there as well. He was in a Lancaster bomber, nineteen
years of age, flying over there and he was dropping

(02:25):
bombs on the French coast out on the sixth of June.
So yeah, we need to remember these people, the heroes
that made it all possible for us to be living
a life of freedom at the moment. So, yeah, six
of June D Day, So I remember that one. You're
listening to the right way with me, David, right here

(02:46):
on our Maria Rado one o seven point five f
and beautiful sunny, warm day out there. Good afternoon. Carol
joined us in the comments section John Alex as well.
The comments is open, it's rebooted. Come and say hi,
Come and keep me company this afternoon. Let me yea,
what you're doing this weekend. I won't be able to
going to pull this weekend, believe it or not. Yeah,
I've got a few stitches. I'd done another operation this

(03:07):
week to remove another cancer which they needed to cut
out on the side of my nose. So yeah, I've
got a plaster on there at the moment and got
to have the stitches out in about four days time,
five days time. Yeah, tell you a bit more about
that a little bit later on after a little bit
of So, yeah, hospitals here in Spain absolutely amazing. I've

(03:29):
had some fantastic treatment over the years here and my
wife as well. A couple of years ago she had
a major hip replacement and the treatment was amazing. So yeah,
this week I had to go in for a little surgery.
Got three stitches in the side of my nose to
remove a cancer. I had one last year as well,
taking out my back. This is a bit of an

(03:49):
occupational hazard here in Spain working outside. You know, I
do put sun cream on, I do try and be careful,
but you know, it's part and partal of the weather
and working outside here in Spain. But yeah, the hospital
was fantastic. I was waiting for a This is funny
because somebody said to me, I was lucky to get
it done so quickly. But is it like or is

(04:10):
it who you get to know. I got to know
some people some time ago and got some good friends here.
I've got three nurse friends that work in different hospitals
here and they've become very good friends of mine. And
also one of my wife's friends works at a hospital
in the reception area doing the bookings and stuff like that.
So when I had my appointment due waiting for the

(04:33):
appointment for my backup operation, and that came through pretty
quickly because it was quite urgent. The one on the
side of my nose wasn't so urgent, but they said
it'd be about three months before the operation, and it
was getting a bit itchy and things like that. So
I just thought I'd like to get it over and
done with. So spoke to a friend that works at
a reception now. He had a word with one of
the surgeons and the next day they called me in

(04:55):
and I got it done straight away. And it's like
going into a private hospital here. The hospital in read
smile well when it was absolutely amazing, very very clean,
very new and modern and in and out in about
twenty minutes and didn't have to wait at all. I
was straight in surgery straight away, very good. And yes
I've got to wait. I think it's about six seven

(05:16):
days to have for mustitches out. But the hospitals here,
I can't go on about these enough. That absolutely amazement
the treatment. And now I've been paying into the system
here when I've been self employed, and also my wife's
paying into it as well. I remember, if one of
your painting into the social security here in Spain, then
all of your family that live with you in that

(05:37):
house are covered this social security here, so you get
the treatment and when you need an operation here there
is normally a waiting list. But I suppose it's who
you get to know. And is it luck or is
it that you know. I put myself in these positions
to get to know lots of people here and be
friendly with lots of Spanish people over the years, and
it's paid back a little bit in dividend. So I've

(05:59):
got my appointment quite quickly and got the operation done
and dusted and out of the way. But so yeah,
the treatments here. I know some British people a bit
worried about going to the hospitals here. The language barrier
and things can be a problem, but there's always people
to help you with interprets and things like that. But
the hospitals I've been to here, and I've had a

(06:19):
few operations now, I cut my hand badly years ago,
and I've had eye surgery and now two other surgeries
as well, And all of the treatments I've had here
and the aftercare as well has been amazing here in
Spain really really has been great, and so I can't
praise it enough. I have had some treatment years ago

(06:41):
in the UK, remember, and the UK was how old
and antiquated the hospitals were and how long everything takes.
And I know my mum is in the UK and
she's still waiting for an operation on her hand. It's
been waiting about eight months now, and it's not being
good at all there, and I think I think she's
had the protion on the hand is eye operation. Sorry,

(07:02):
she's waiting for an eye operation and uh, just wait
and wait and wait, and it's terrible. But here in
Spain not bad at all, or at least I found
it to be very very good. Indeed, so what's your
experiences on the Spanish hospitals.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
David Wright, help and advice for living and working in Spain.
You're listening to the Right Way right with David right.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
So some rules and regulations if you're out and about
on the beach this year this summer, and some cyclist
rules and regulations and renting your property out that's all
coming up after this. You're listening to the Right Way
with me, David right here on Ammaria Radio or one
oh seven point five FM. So, yeah, talking a little
bit about hospitals today. And I'm going to have my

(07:48):
stitches out. Well, I'm actually I'm not going to have
my stages up, having one of my Spanish friends do it.
She's a nurse here, so she's going to come to
my house and do that when it's time for having that. So, yeah,
it's the treatment I've been getting. It has been amazing
over the years, twenty three years here now and it
has been amazing. And also with my wife as well.
She had a broker hip and a firebone and had

(08:12):
to have a whole hip replacement and a pin put
in and screws and god knows what else last year.
So she had that fantastic treatment. And it's also the
after care treatment as well is very very good. Now,
the only thing I will say is that you know,
if you go to a therapist afterwards, you know you
need physia or anything like that. There is quite a
long waiting list for that, and it was my wife's

(08:36):
leg we had to wait. It was going to be
about three months for the physia, so we didn't bother
to wait for that. We went and paid privately. Now
it's not expensive, it's only thirty euros a session, and
it was well worth doing that because the physiotherapy made
a big difference and my wife is walking and running
and biking and doing just about everything she was before.
We have no problems at all. So yeah, the aftercare

(08:59):
for things like that, that might be a little bit
slow if you need the appointments and stuff. But the
actual hospital treatment, the doctors and surgeons were fantastic. And
they're talking about the surgeons. When I had my eyes
operated on, I had about eight years ago. I had
lenses put inside my eyes. It's not a laser surgery.
It was to stop wearing glasses and get rid of cataracts.

(09:20):
And this is a hospital here in al Warria, and
the surgeon that did my eye operation he was actually
trained in Chichester and spoke very good English. So yeah,
there's nothing to worry about. Ut all the hospitals here
I have one hundred percent confidence in them and the
treatment has been amazing. Something I heard a little while
agos where it might be of interest with British people.
If you need an operation and you've got something wrong

(09:43):
with you, and for example, I know somebody that had
an accident and they broke their shoulder and they went
into the hospital and went to see a doctor and everything,
and they said that they needed an operation, but because
they were living here in Spain, they had the insurance
and they won't have to go through an insurance. But
the insurance wasn't going to cover the operation that they needed,

(10:05):
so they ended up going back to the UK and
have done that. Otherwise it's going to be about twelve
fourteen thousand euros for your operation. Now. I was talking
to a doctor the other day and he said that
if the person has got called an ambulance and they
go through as an emergency, they bypassed that procedure and
they would go straight in and able to have the
operation there and then so it's something to think about

(10:28):
rather than just walking as a patient. If it's an emergency,
then there's a little bit different treatment. Obviously, it's only
if it's emergency. I suppose.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
The afternoon show David Wright Help and Advice for Living
and Working in Spain. You're listening to the Right Way,
the Right Way with David Wright.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Very good afternoon to Maria and Rita Grange. Join us
in the comment section. Okay, so no barbecues on the beach,
that's quite an obvious one, really, I suppose, but there's
an exception. Twenty third of June. It's the San juan
A Fiesta here in Andaluthia. This is when they have
like so I suppose it's like the guy Fawkes night's
all the barbecues and bonfires on the beach, massive bonfires

(11:18):
all along the coast in and Luthia. This is to
commemorate the San Juan Fiesta. I think it's the summer solstice,
the longest at night, believe it or not. Twenty third
of June. And yeah, you can have barbecues. People go
down on the beach and they stay there all night,
loads of partying, gun on. There's no fireworks of such.
But yeah, if you haven't checked it out, and you do,

(11:40):
need to go down to the beaches here in Andalusia
around the twenty third, the night of the twenty third,
around seven o'clock, you will see people building a massive,
big bonfires with palettes and things like that, and it
is a great family atmosphere to go and do with that. One. Yeah,
that's a twenty third of June, the sam one. That's
the only time you're laed to have barbecues on the beach.
No smoking on a lot of the Spanish beaches, now,

(12:02):
this is quite being enforced quite strictly, and especially down
in this part of Elmurria. I've seen they've got these
wardens with his jackets on the going around checking out people. Now,
I know lots of Spanish people do still smoke, but
there is no smoking on the beaches. You can get
fine for that. And no dogs on the beaches as well.

(12:22):
This is normally in the high season that's from May
to October. Now there are some dedicated dog friendly beaches,
but in the high season most of these beaches all
be closed off to dogs, so no dogs. Be careful
of that. When there was big fines also no reserving
of some beds that there's people were used to go
and putting the some beds, the tails on the some beds,

(12:43):
things like that. If there's some beds near you where
you are, there's no reserving of somebodys. Now Spain's getting
very strict on that rightly too in Wybrook. And also
if you've got a brief beach umbrella and a deck
chair and you leave it on the beach where you
go and have lunch or you're going off fill it, well,
you're not allowed to reserve that spot. You have to
take all your stuff with you can't leave it there.

(13:04):
Lifeguards are now being given permissions to confiscate stuff if
people were left it there and they're not using that
spot on the beach. So bit aware of some of
these rules and regulations in Spain. There's some new changes.
There's some better day there and your love is a
king now. Spanish pensioners will receive an extra month's payment
in their due payment this month, so yeah, the Spanish

(13:27):
social security here tries to look after its pensioners. So
if you've got a Spanish pension, you'll get an extra
month here with your during payment now. Also if you
work for a government here in Spain, any government official
jobs at all, you get extra payment in July and
also an extra month's salary in December as well. So
the Spanish social security system and do look after their

(13:50):
pensioners and the government workers do get extra pay as well,
so that's quite handy for lib Also, if you're pensioner
in Spain, your or a drawing a pension here in
Spain pensionable age. You also you get subsidized holidays here
in Spain. And what they do is they normally give
you options of going to stay in some hotels. This

(14:10):
was originally to keep the hotels open throughout the year,
and so Spanish pensioners do get some really good deals.
Now I know, my wife's cousins are going to Rockets
Demartin next week for a week and they're paying about
half the price and they've got half board and drinks
and all and everything included, so they've got a really

(14:31):
good deal. There's eighteen of them going, actually the whole
family's going. But the pensioners get these deals here in Spain.
And this is not just the Spanish pensioners. If a
British pensioner here in Spain. If you're paying into the
system at all, look it into it. There's more information
on this for pensioners and these discounts on holidays here
over on my information page.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
You're listening to the Right Way with David Wright in
the afternoon on our Maria Radio one seven point five fms.
The comment section is open, so come see hi to
David right now.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
So more rules and regulations in Spain. So remember it's
a summer and no walking around the town in swimwear.
Now you can get fined three hundred euros. You need
to put a shirt on, you need to put something
over your swimwear. This is mostly in the north of Spain,
Barcelona and up that way, but this has become a
law in lots of places now here in Spain, so

(15:30):
b on the aware of that. Also pub crawls, they're
cut cramping down on pub crawl, so this is groups
of people mainly again this is in Barcelona area, but
it's coming out in other areas of Spain as well.
I think they're doing it Malagate as well, So you
can't go from pub to pub and in groups of lads,
groups or groups of anybody. They're cutting down on this

(15:52):
they don't want realdy hooligans that sort of thing, so
be careful if you're out. People still do it. I'm
sure they will do it here on holiday this time
of year, but just be on the lookout for that.
Is not allowed to do that now. Also the other
one is renting your property out here in Spain. There
is new rules and regulations out this year. So if
you're renting your property out, you need to go and

(16:13):
get a license from the local town hall. And if
you don't get a license and you're renting your property out,
there is forty thousand euro fine. Now, these licenses aren't
very expensive and some of them are free as well.
You well, we as up for rent on July and
August this year and air license was free at the

(16:34):
local town hall here in the local community buildings, council buildings,
whatever you want to call it. Yeah, so go and
get these licenses if you can. And are lots of
places now that they're getting if you're wanting to rent out,
the councilors are vetting the places and they're making it
very difficult through renting out now, so just be on
the lookout for that. There's some new rules and regulations

(16:55):
from what you can and can't do as far as
renting your property out here in Spain. You do it
on the choiet, thinking you might not get caught. You
only need one little complaint or a neighbor to put
you in the in the what's it and you can
get a forty one thousand euro fine. So go and
ask first. I've got some more information again about this
over on my information page. Yeah, somebody said to me

(17:16):
about the noise here as well. And they're in a
village where they've got some loud music. This is summer coming.
People are making a lot of noise in that And
I'll tell you where the rules very a little bit
here in Spain. But if this loud music, and you
can complain about it, if it's after twelve o'clock, then
you can call the local authorities. You can call the
police and they can put a stop to it if

(17:36):
it's after twelve o'clock at night. We had this a
little while ago and there was a neighbor up the road.
It had a bit of a party going on and
there was a load of youngsters and they were it
was pretty loud music. We did ask him to turn
it down, which he did, and then about twelve thirty
it was in a weekday as well. This was in
a weekday, somebody's birthday party. Twelve thirty. They were playing

(17:58):
this loud music and it just got louder and louder,
and so we called a local security. We've got a
private security where we are at the moment, and they
called the police and the police came around and they
shut it down straight away. So yeah, if it's after
twelve o'clock, you can complain about it. But up to
twelve o'clock the summer here in Spain, there's not much
you can do about this loud music. You can also

(18:21):
go to your local police station and put aid nuntia
on people, but that takes a little bit of time.
Every time you do complain, the police do follow it up,
but it's normally a bit the next day, so that's
not much good if it's loud music that night. But
so you can call the police after twelve o'clock and
they can put a stop to the music here in Spain.

(18:41):
Arip Wagon there, keep on loving you, okay. So I
just have more insurance in from my new mode Bier
copy and I paid it because I was transferred over
from the old motor bikes and a new one and
it's now just been taken out for the whole year,
fully comprehensive. Now I'm paying six hundred euros. I think
it's pretty staple or shopped around. I can't get any better.
If anyone got any ideas of a motorbike insurance is

(19:03):
something that I haven't been able to get quoted. I
want full part, fully comprehensive here in Spain. Third party
means third party. Remember is not fire and their for
like the UK, so I wanted it to be covered
if it was stolen or anything like that. So I
really wanted it as it's a new motibike, fully comprehensive.
So if you've got any ideas on motorbike insurance then

(19:27):
please let me know in the comments or you can
send me an email. The details are in the comment section.
That's David at Almaria Radio dot live. David at Almira
Radio dot live for motorbike insurance something I'm a bit
lost at at the moment. I've got some car insurance,
but motorbikes here in Spain a little bit harder to
get on to Jonas brothers there and four House. Well

(19:48):
that's about it for another show. Thanks very much for
joining me and stay tuned. It's the five o'clock Hit
Mix with Rob macnext. And have a great weekend. And
thank you everyone that's commented on my shows. I appreciate it.
Here later.

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The the n that's almost

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Mm hmm