Tom Raftery - an Irish technologist moving to Spain

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...