0.0.0.0 10170 8011 We arrived in Sevilla on the morning of June 23rd. Our furniture arrived from Ireland the same day so we were quickly set up in our rented apartment with all our familiar stuff. This helped the boys settle in very quickly (I have two boys aged 2 and 5). After that we needed to set up a bank account so we could get the utilities changed to our names. We tried BBVA but they didn't want to know anything about us as I wasn't Spanish (or didn't have Spanish residency). Right next door to the BBVA in our neighbourhood is a La Caixa bank. We went in there and they couldn't have been more welcoming and flexible. We opened our account with La Caixa and haven't regretted it. Telefonica, despite all stories to the contrary, were fantastic. We ordered a phone line and broadband from them on Wed Jun 25th and they were installed and working Thur 26th! Spectacular. I went with Movistar for my mobile phone because they were going to be bringing out the iPhone in a number of weeks and I figured I'd be one step ahead if I already had a Movistar account. Mistake. But more about that in another post. Looking at cars I did a lot of research online and finally decided to buy either a Ford Focus C-Max or a Toyota Prius. Those two were the cars with the lowest emissions in their class, that was my filter. I was sure we'd get the C-Max because the Prius at €24,850 was just too expensive. However we went to the Toyota dealership anyway and I'm thrilled we did. The Junta de Andalucia give you back €3k if you buy a Prius (basically the IVA) because it is a low emissions car! Decision made, we put a deposit on the Prius there and then. Actually buying the Rpius turned out to be more difficult than putting down the deposit thanks to the inflexibility of Bank of Ireland but again, more of that anon. Ok, that's enough for now. Back to work and I will post more about our move to Spain soon. 2 2008-07-25T15:59:40Z 2008-07-25T15:05:00Z 179532 2008-07-25T17:06:11Z ok-i-m-here- 2008-07-25T15:59:40Z 1 1 2008-07-25T17:06:11Z