F
Former member 91017
Guest
Ok... so here's a funny question for those of you who may be more in the know as local inhabitants in Spain.
I am about to receive my new Irish passport and I am on along-term "remote work" arrangement so I am looking at the possibility of heading to the Castille-y-Leon area west of Astorga, roughly to as far west as Ponferrada, to look at properties for sale when I can retire in a few years. I am hopeful that I might find something "now-ish" and start to occupy it most of the year come 2023.
What I am curious to know is whether it is the passport or the place of departure that matters to the Spanish officials as far as quarantining goes. My sense is that one cannot simply land in Madrid and hop a train to Léon for the purposes of quarantining in a hotel there for 2 weeks. But as an EU citizen that might be possible?
I'd like to be able to accomplish as much as possible inside of a month, working remotely and incorporating our winter break time into it (I have almost 2 weeks without any "face-time" duties in February). But if I'd have to stay in Madrid, the cost of 2 weeks doing nothing in a hotel might be prohibitive.
We are entering a "managed second wave" in Canada.... hoping that with increased mobility for younger people back in school, university and college that the virus will lose its virulence in a population least likely to become ill. I suppose we might know if that has been successful by January. Last time I checked, we were something like 27th in the global list for prevalence.
Anyway, I'm just starting to think about this because buying property sight unseen -- no matter how much I adore the photos and descriptions -- seems wildly unwise.
I am about to receive my new Irish passport and I am on along-term "remote work" arrangement so I am looking at the possibility of heading to the Castille-y-Leon area west of Astorga, roughly to as far west as Ponferrada, to look at properties for sale when I can retire in a few years. I am hopeful that I might find something "now-ish" and start to occupy it most of the year come 2023.
What I am curious to know is whether it is the passport or the place of departure that matters to the Spanish officials as far as quarantining goes. My sense is that one cannot simply land in Madrid and hop a train to Léon for the purposes of quarantining in a hotel there for 2 weeks. But as an EU citizen that might be possible?
I'd like to be able to accomplish as much as possible inside of a month, working remotely and incorporating our winter break time into it (I have almost 2 weeks without any "face-time" duties in February). But if I'd have to stay in Madrid, the cost of 2 weeks doing nothing in a hotel might be prohibitive.
We are entering a "managed second wave" in Canada.... hoping that with increased mobility for younger people back in school, university and college that the virus will lose its virulence in a population least likely to become ill. I suppose we might know if that has been successful by January. Last time I checked, we were something like 27th in the global list for prevalence.
Anyway, I'm just starting to think about this because buying property sight unseen -- no matter how much I adore the photos and descriptions -- seems wildly unwise.