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  • Goodbye West Wales/hwyl fawr Sir Benfro

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    5th September 2024 It will be obvious to you all dear readers who is writing which bit of this post!! To all those non Welsh speakers don’t worry I don’t know what he is saying either. You could cut and paste into google translate. I did try to learn, we were hoping to have a…

  • If something seems too good to be true…is it?

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    March/April 2024 We never thought we’d be the kind of people who could ever own an amazing historic property like this, let alone in beautiful Barbados, so we set about our due diligence before we’re committed. That means a survey, right? Our attorney says “Well, usually here in Barbados property is sold as seen”. Our…

  • We need to talk about money!

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    March/April 2024 Indeed. It’s all very well making a flippant jovial comment “let’s just sell up and move here” but it quite another thing contemplating selling our beautiful home. Conversely we had already 90% decided to sell the small cottage we had in Pembrokeshire. The council decision to increase second home premiums council tax to…

  • The jungle drums

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    February 2024 We start breaking the news quite quickly. Friends who had recently stayed with us only a matter of days prior to the start of the adventure and earlier on in the year are first, and perhaps the most surprised, after all it was not even a thing then. We revel in their reactions…

  • What happened next?

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    So – we fly back to the UK a couple of days later (after more 3am moments for us both and an intense soul-searching discussion over a very long lunch at Pier One, Port St Charles on the west coast – highly recommended btw) – to begin working out how we’re going to do this.…

  • “Well I didn’t expect that”

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    TrickyAndNIcky
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    Monday 19th February 2024 (Mum’s Birthday – that’s ironic – she had always badgered Dad to come back to live on the island) So here we are driving down to view this wild card. Honestly I’m thinking, “hmm I not feeling so clever, I might even be coming down with something”, this is our last…