The history of us Part 1 - Our move to Mallorca - About us
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- This is the first in a series of videos that we are planning about us and our life in Mallorca.
In this first video I explain how we came to Mallorca and some of the issues that we faced.
Thank you to Matthew Aiken for encouraging me to make the video.
In future videos I hope to answer some of your questions.
Thanks for watching,
Steve and Anita
Thanks for video Steve and Anita 😊
Our pleasure
Great video Steve and Anita, lovely to hear your story. You still have your Stoke accent. We love watching your videos!
Thank you.
Lovely to hear your story 😊
Thank you.
What a great story. I understand how difficult it is to move countries as I did the same in the early 2000’s and went from a tropical country to England. Given half a chance, I would relocate to Majorca as it’s a wonderful place seeing local families spending time together on the beaches in the evenings.
We have never looked back Paul. Thanks for watching.
respect to you both for believing in your dream and staying the course .. lots of people dream but very few make it a reality. Stay safe and take care now..
When we first went back to the UK for a holiday, I went to visit colleagues from school and they said how envious they were of what we had done. My thought, why don't you do it then? I guess it does take a certain amount of courage, but if you have the will, you can make it happen.
Brilliant video again showing us who love mallorca an indepth view of the island. Glad you made the break and are happy there.
Thanks Ste, we have never looked back
Can't wait for the next chapter.
Really enjoyed the first one.
Such a brave move with a young family so glad it worked out....
Glad you enjoyed it Stephanie.
A very interesting video Steve and to get an insight to how’s things were back in the 80’s. Please continue this theme of videos we find them fascinating 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Ian.
Lovely to watch, thank you for making this. My Husband and I are currently looking into moving to Majorca from the U.K. with our 3 year old, ready for starting school next year. Just arranging a visit with an estate agent to check out suitable areas to buy/rent and a visit to the school we have in mind.
Good luck, and please contact me if you have any questions.
Hi steve Anita, it’s always nice to hear your story thank you for sharing your story 😊
Thanks for listening.
We loved this video of your experence of moving to Mallorca. Looking forward to hearing more of your early life after the move and perhaps some input from Anita.
We have been thinking about the next part.
Loved listening to your story. Looking forward to the next instalments
Glad you enjoyed it Shaun.
Loved this video , how brave as years ago it wasnt at all popular to take off to Spain to live. Thats is our gream, to come retire there as we lived there in 2011 for 9 months. We love Majorca. Lokk forward to Part 2 . Take Care
Thanks Muriel.
Always like your videos from my most favorite part of "our island". Keep up your good work!
Thanks Carlos.
Such a great story Steve I’ve really enjoyed it ! Many thanks
Thank you
Really glad you’ve made these videos
Looking forward to part 2
TThanks Kevin. Glad you like them!
Its amazing how peoples lives turn different corners and fate kicks in, Great video Steve.
Thanks for watching Jay.
What a wonderful story, thank you for sharing 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Susan.
Ive just subscribed to your channel, and I am so looking forward to checking out your past videos. Majorca was my first holiday abroad with my dear late mother in 1981,Its a wonderful beautiful Island
Welcome and thank you Margaret. I hope you enjoy the videos.
You are a great story teller! Reminded me of when we moved to Mallorca in 1980 - the old airport, taxi's that ran on the red butano bottles, 100 pesetas bills that you could buy a tonne of stuff with, walking everywhere in San Agustin and no TV or telephone!
Thanks Pirouz, it was a different era.
Fantastic insight. Thank you for sharing and good luck with everything 🙂
My pleasure!
Brilliant listening to you Steve. My partner and I have been watching your videos for a long time now since our holiday in Palmanova a few years ago. Santa Ponsa this year. We are about to watch part 2
Thank you
Super Brave Move Steve & Anita especially with a Baby Lovely to know you Stayed and Made a Life in Mallorca 🏝
Brave of foolish... we made it work.
Aww that's fantastic information Steve it must of been hard at first but look at your videos and can tell your settled there now👍
We never looked back Adele.
What a lovely story
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing your story. Brins back memories of moving to Spain in the eighties. Especially the work permit & only having a radio.
Happy memories
thanks so much for your videos Steve and Anita - I'm moving to Mallorca imminently, so these videos have been really useful! I may also have found a property in Genova which I'm planning to come over to view next week! Thanks for the positive input!
Hope all goes well Kim.
These videos are really interesting. Keep up the good work! 😊
Glad you like them!
Nice to hear the start of your journey look forward to hearing a lot more...
Keep safe
Could be a long story... Thank Chris, you have been a great encouragement to me.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca you to me as well..
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Obviously no regrets, and why should there be.
Glad you enjoyed it Mel.
You are a great story teller Steve. Smooth talker, interesting subject matter. No doubt it was a big move but what a great choice you made back then. You arrived about 4 years after I left. Absolutely enjoy your content and hope to meet you on the island one day. I'd love to bring my family to show them the paradise I live in during my youth.
Thanks Robert, glad you enjoyed it.
very intresting comments and a good move to make
It has worked for us.
Anita magically appears at 12.34 😆
It would be great to see some pictures of you both on the island in the 80’s
Great videos 👍🏼
Funny you should say that, I was thinking that we should look out some old photos.
Hi Steve and Anita from rainy Macclesfield.
Just want to say how much I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work. Karen Ledgar.
Thanks so much Karen.
I love hearing about anyone’s past its very interesting, nice vid.
Thanks for watching.
How brave/crazy you were. What an adventure.
Brave/crazy is probably a good way to describe us.
How blessed you and Anita are. Often wondered what it would be like to have a life on this magical island. We often speak about taking a villa for a couple of months. Thing is, my husband would choose to come over in the winter whereas I prefer the summer months. Something to think about in a few years time.
We often say ourselves, how lucky we are.
That cannot happen as easy now because of the 90/180 rule, so gone are the days of spending 6 months in the spanish sun unless you get your residency. All those who thought being out of the EU have really crapped on their own doorsteps now !!
@@flight101 It isn’t an issue for those who only wish to spend a couple of months. It is indeed a pity for those who enjoy a longer stay. So glad I sold my property abroad - couldn’t be bothered with the bureaucracy of it all now.
Nice insight to your story..thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing, appreciate it a lot. I had my 1st "it's done differently over there" moment - Wanted to replace internal doors in my apartment, learnt can't just buy doors, have to get surround as well. GREAT NEWS ABOUT RCD MALLORCA THOUGH.
Thanks Philip, yes, great news about Mallorca. Just watching the Tenerife game now.
Very interesting, So glad it all worked out. You seem to have a lovely life in Majorca. xx
We both agree that we made the right move all those years ago.
What a lovely story, it was meant to be. I would love a small holiday flat just to visit whenever I need to recharge my batteries, but until things improve its on hold. I envy you, I would live there if I could, but a holiday home would do!
Thanks Jenny, we have had our ups and down but focus on the good times. I hope you are able to live your dreams.
Just recently found your channel and im so glad i did! I love mallorca and my goal is to be able to live there someday. Also so happy mallorca are promoted back to la liga, i want to go to watch a game next time im there 😋
Thanks for watching and great new for Mallorca. You can watch tonight's game on CZcams.
Another Nice video 👍
Thanks for watching.
Nice move,Spain especially Maiorca is a beautifull place to live.
We have never looked back.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca i bet
Keep it coming. Hi from B.C. Canada
ThanksDaniel, will do.
Hi, indeed it was. Emotional leaving England for us also,,, I appreciate that these days it is so different however lockdown did show us the distance especially when Trudy’s dad died (covid) it’s been a hard year,, but I think if you can get through mega hard times like we’ve all had it makes you appreciate the good times... now Xmas is around the corner and we’re looking forward to seeing family again...
One thing that is special about Mallorca is light, it is so much brighter here and I think that is partly responsible for lifting the spirits. Thanks for watching Andrew.
Vamos Steve! Back in La Liga🥳
Didn't need to kick a ball... visca Mallorca
Congratulations, your team are UP,UP,UP.
And with 3 games to spare. Let's hope we stay up!
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Now the hard work starts
Hi Steve and Anita love your videos especially in Palma Nova, we've been going there for the past 20 years, love it. We enjoy most of the bars but Rogers beach bar is the one we like to go to most as well as Monroes, both bar's are owned by Rodger and his brother Bebi who both have really nice families who work there. It would be great whenever you two pass if you would turn your camera a little so we can 👋 to the family haha 😄 we will be there in September. You both do a great job 👏 👍 🙌 👌 Tony and Portia
Thanks for your support Tony and Portia.
All your videos are extremely interesting, and I’m so pleased you two get along so well and have so much in common and find the time even though you work you can still do your videos .
Thank you so much. Anita and I have been together since we were 17!
Hi Steve and Anita, I'm a Sandbachian (Sandbach) so i thought i recognised a little bit of your accent, fantastic story and i think you made the right choice, been to Palma Nova more than a dozen times now and i love it, Mallorca is a very friendly island, my favorite is Torrenova i would love a villa just up from Palmanova Bay Hotel, i'll keep dreaming, please keep the videos coming i love'em.
Thanks Mark. You can take the lad out of Stoke but ya conna tak Stoke outta the lad.
Saw your other reply then lost it. Just wanted to add Arnold Bennett to your list and Captain Smith (Titanic). Some great folk from the Potteries.
Hi Steve and Anita, i hit delete instead of edit, you have'nt done to bad Steve a lad from Stoke living in another country and teaching for 36 years it could'nt have been easy back in the 80's, also in good company with other successful people from Stoke area, just a few John Caudwell, Peter Coates, Sir Stanley Matthews, Reginald Mitchell, to name a few, and yes i forgot about the Captain of the Titanic as well, i look forward to part 2 Steve, lets hope Mallorca can get us Brits over again soon.
@@Soothing_SoundsASMR Thanks Mark
Hi Steve and Anita,I'd just like to say that your last few videos have been great. Showing us other places on the island apart from the coastal regions and I've always wonder how you ended up out there in the first place. I was also interested in you last comment about the logistics and cost of living there. I would certainly be interested in finding out more about that. By the way, what is the weather like out there in late September to mid October time as I think given the current circumstances here in the UK trying to get over there at that time would be more realistic.
Thanks for your very kind comments. September and October are great months, still warm but the intense heat has gone.
That was all very interesting and thanks for sharing your story.
You were both very brave moving to majorca with a child when you had never been abroad before. I remember our first time abroad in August 1986 when I stepped out of the plane I thought I was going to die with the heat it killed me.
Regarding costs I still remember how much our holiday was, we paid £285 each for two weeks H/B in the Sol Gaudalupe/ Magalluf I saved all year for that lol mind going out for a beer and food was really cheap, good times. The 1 year passports from the post office I remember them as well, fill out a couple of pages take some ID and receive a paper passport over the counter.
How times have changed.
It's a brave thing to do uproot everyone and move to somewhere new and unknown. it's a lovely country to visit as one of my uncles and myself usually try and get flights there towards the end of may. But with the current pandemic we've had to miss out for 2 years. And your regular updates have been a great help keeping us updated with all the changes going on.
Thankyou
My pleasure. I think that we saw it as an adventure and ended up liking it.
Great story and well done for the leap of faith .
Thanks John, I guess that it was a leap of faith, but at the time it was an adventure.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca looks like it all worked out for you both. take care.
@@johnneesham3966 it did and we have never looked back.
Great video Steve, my ambition for a few years now is to live in spain, or even majorca, its just having the knowhow of how id support myself in what job,what a Gem 💎 of an island it doesn't even compare to the UK in my opinion
We just took the plunge and did it.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Do you have any advise in terms of work opportunities that runs all year round?? With stable income? Or is buying a small business the way to go
@@MartinMcDonald-rs2yl that will depend on whether you have an EU passport or not. If you have a British passport it will be very difficult.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca okay thank you, looking forward to the next videos
Iam a Relative of Admiral Antonio Raphael Barcello, from Majorca. My family moved to New Orleans Louisiana in the 1830's. I desperately miss home, these days I feel a calling from my Ancestors.
That is interesting. If you get the chance, you should visit our beautiful island.
I love your channel ❤️
Thank you so much!!
Great story, i would guess you have few regrets. Especially with the current state of the U.K. take care, stay safe
We never looked back. Thanks for watching Steve.
What a wonderful story beautifully told, thanks for sharing
Thanks for listening
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Thanks again for taking the time to make these films. Quick question please Steve, since you've lived there for a long time, would you happen to know of a good website where I could find a nice apartment there please? Many thanks, Matt
@@VITALITYENERGY If it is for a holiday you need to be careful as many are rented illegaly. It is very hard to get a rental licence on an apartment in Mallorca.
There are Facebook groups that you can join for apartments.
If you are looking to live here there are lots of estate agents.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Yes I'm looking to relocate and live there. For example, if I google 'apartments for rent in Mallorca' I see sites such as fotocasa; kyero; idealista; novamallorca; firstmallorca; and many others. Which one would you think is probably the most reliable please?
@@VITALITYENERGY Unless you know the island really well, and not as a tourist, I would suggest that you rent somewhere first for a few months.
Long term rents are a bit easier.
Agents will usually charge you a finders fee, about one months rent, then a depost, one month, and a month up front.
If you rent privately you skip the finders fee.
Finding somewhere in high season is more difficult but September-October is a little easier.
The sites you have listed are a good start to see what is availble.
Hope this helps.
a very brave and adventurous thing to do especially with a young child! 1976 i had been married for 3 months and i went to work in Saudi Arabia for 2 years every 3 months 2 weeks leave good money and no tax !
Maybe we were lucky, but it all worked out well for us.
Really interesting, especially as we are looking to move to Mallorca - we have our Visa application interview at the Spanish Consulate here in Manchester on June 2nd - we have a heck of a lot to do to get everything in place. Brexit has really complicated things and increased the costs, not least for Medical cover which now has to be acquired. But we can't wait to be there.
Hope it all works out for you.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Thanks, your videos have been keeping us motivated. It's been quite a challenge to get all the stuff together for the Visa - far more difficult after Brexit, but we've got everything as of this morning. So fingers crossed we get the acceptance and Visa granted. We are assuming we'll have it by the end of August - hope so as that's when the house sale completes here. Mary and I already have our apartment in Port Andratx. Once we arrive I'll ping you an invite we can share a glass of bubbly. Cheers Andrew
@@arumturk You seem to have things organised. Hope all goes well, Steve
Hi Steve Mallorca are up with the Big boys yesssss ⚽️
What a relief, and a good game last night against Tenerife.
Fascinating,35 years, wow, may you both have 35 more!
We have lived longer here than we did in the UK. Thanks for watching Ray.
Really enjoy watching your broadcasts. I have just cancelled my stay at the Samos. Before the pandemic I used to stay at least four times during the hotel season. Last year I managed two! Like you I am a Freemason and would like to know where your building is, and if you could do a broadcast about it.
Thanks David, I am planning to make a video of how I became a mason and a little about Freemasonry here in Mallorca and Spain in general. I need to think it through first.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Looking forward to it. It's gone very transparent here in the UK. I took the first step in April 1987, so a bit of a dinosaur!
What a fantastic story Steve thank you for sharing. I love to hear how people moved to majorca and a bit of there back stories,but I hate to ask just in case it’s personal
It's a story I am happy to tell because there are so many great memories.
You made the best choice
We are very happy with the choice that we made.
Steve and Anita "Those were the days my friend" Palma Nova, as I told u before, Me/wife, my children, and even one of my grandchildren, Palma Nova, .......... etc... u know my fav bars
Thanks Jim, perhaps we can have a beer in one of your favourite bars.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca Munroes Bar lol ..the karaeoki.....Real singers back in the day, retired now in Palma Nova.....sing there!
I lived in Mallorca for a year & half. Beautiful South African like weather with a short 3 month winter. The only downside is that Mallorca property is very expensive & I rather live in London & get a property of the same price tag.
Property prices are a problem here, particulaly if you want to live near to the coast.
Been waiting for this since you started. Did you fly in to Son Bonet airport in 1985?
Thanks Marc, no, it wasn't Son Bonet, we landed at Son Sant Joan. Interestingly, when we started the Cub Scouts, we had a few meeting at Son Bonet.
Where's part 3 have you done it yet Steve.
We have an about us playlist.
Very interesting.QUESTION--Since Brexit is there anything you can’t get now which you could get prebrexit? How long did it take to learn the lingo fluently?
Brexit has caused lots of changes, most bureaucratic. I don't think that we buy anything that comes fom the UK. Our food is mostly local. We still get things from China, where most things are manufactured. I can't think of anything that we buy regularly that comes from the UK. As for the language... that's another question... still learning... but we get by.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca muy bien
Do i need a pre-departure PCR test traveling from the UK to Majorca?
you still can't come on holiday until it has been confirmed
If we were considering moving to majorca now, what are the hurdles abd obstacles we would face.
We have a house to sale In the uk good company/state pensions. .
The big hurdle is your passport. If you have an EU passport it is pretty straight forward. If you have a UK passport you need a visa.
Which school in majorca do you teach? Love watching your videos x
I teach at Bellver International College.
Hi Steve, thank you great video.
Do you know anyone running a bar? Something Ive been thinking about but sounds like a lot of red tape and possibly it's like that for lots of businesses. Job vs business is the dilemma
Thanks Yvette, yes, I have friend who have run bars and yes, it's not an easy business.
Thanks - hmm, might have to have a rethink on that
@@yvetteholt4329 If you are thinking of starting a business it is really important to do your research and have a business plan.
Question...
WOULD YOU DO THE SAME THING AGAIN IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE
Absolutely
Hi both, our daughter is a primary school teacher, husband ex military. 2 children aged 11 and 7. What are the chances of getting a school traching job in mallorca?
There are several international schools on the island and jobs often come up in them. It will be easier if she has an EU passport, but it is still possible with a UK passport. She should prepare a CV and send it to the international schools on the island. Keep an eye on the TES and Guardian for job adverts. It is very difficult for a non-Spanish person to get a job in a state school.
@SteveandAnitainMallorca thankyou very much for the info.
Go Real Mallorca 👍
Looking forward to next season now.
Which school does Anita teach?
Anita teaches at a different school to me.
From Monday 24 may Mallorca accepts U.K. holidaymakers .
Yes, it was published in the BOE today. Time for a news update.
@@SteveandAnitainMallorca
Good man get them millions of euros in before the other bloggers do . All the best to you too .
@@antondrake4794 Thanks Anton