Relocation at Spain One Stop

Gas

Only large Towns and Cities have natural gas. If you live in the countryside and want to use gas, butane in bottles is available but you must have a contract with the gas supplier. Suppliers will not give you a contract until they inspect your appliances to make sure they are safe.

Gas boilers here are quite efficient and inexpensive to run. A bottle of butane costs at the time of writing 11.60 euros and is about the same size as a bottle of calor gas in the U.K. 35 kilo.

Changing a bottle can be tricky until you get used to it because the connections are fiddly. 

Gas appliances from the U.K. will work here but you must change the regulator. The U.K. regulators do not fit the Spanish butane bottles.

Phone

In the countryside land line telephones are few and far between. If the house you are thinking of buying does not have a phone ask where the nearest phone line is. Even if it is close by, expect to wait a long time to be conected, this can take sometimes up to two years and repeated calls to telefonica. If you don't want to wait this long for what I can only discribe as a C**p service. There is an alternitive, we have been conected to a high frequency radio phone which means we also have broadband internet access. The company is called Iberbanda and the web address www.iberbanda.es . This only takes a couple of weeks and the service is good.  A prepaid phone card is also a good Idea, they cost 5 euros and it's a bit inconvenient dialing an 18 figure number before the number you want, but you get up to 3hrs talk time to the U.K. to a land line, and approx 22 mins to a mobile in the U.K. It dosen't even show up on your bill as a call.