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Many expats enjoying the continuing good weather are still running businesses from a Spanish deck chair by the pooll, actively in the UK as they live only in Spain for a few months a year or actively in Spain as they are not yet retired and have a growing business to contend with. Which ever box you fot into businesses are being observed daily by customers, suppliers, staff, potential new recruits,government departments, banks, competitors etc daily especially in terms of the emergent culture of the company.

I'm staggered, amazed, gob-smacked - take your choice - I've just had to transfer a sizeable amount of money from the UK to Spain. I use a transfer company (Currencies Direct) to move money from the UK because it's cheap (as in free) and quick .. when I last did this the whole process took about a week (which is reasonable) - 3 days to transfer the money to the transfer company and another 3 days for the money to get to my account in Spain. This time the whole process took less than a day!!