29 Sep 2012 23:23:

 Just  in case it happens again, Richard, what you actually need to say is 'hace mucho calor'  - it makes a lot of heat.  May not sound logical to us but that is the way they say it!

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29 Sep 2012 12:18:

 My favourite locally is in a menu produced at massive cost by a local bar and clearly translated by machine.  Among the jewels were 'it files' for 'limas' and my all time best 'strained fragmentation hand grenade' for Pina Colada.  Easy to see how they got there but WHY don't they just give an English person a beer and ask them to proof-read???

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03 Jul 2012 18:53:

 If you are on a repeat prescription (in Andalucia they do these via your health card) if you take it to the Farmacia they should be able to tell you what your position is.

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03 Jul 2012 18:47:

 Good point Val.

Perhaps your gestor can help?   I assume you have an E106 or an E121?  

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03 Jul 2012 18:41:

 I am sure that is the case, summer 70.  The only way to get free or subsidised prescriptions for non-emergencies is to be a resident.   If you are of working age and paying into the SS system you get them subsidised, if you are  a pensioner then prior to last Sunday they were free.  

In certain comunidades (Valencia and others?) they have also let non pensioners into the system but I understand that is changing.

In Andalucia they have never been allowed in other than while the E106 was valid (maximum of 2 years after leaving UK).

Most of the confusion seems to arise, as implied by John and Camposol, by people interpreting the concepts of resident and tax resident as optional statuses - the one follows the other, by law.

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