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Our third week of the summer holiday was all about learning Spanish. The kids went daycamp in Castelldefels, Tibor had a 20 hour course in Barcelona and Maaike 10 hours of private class also in Barcelona. The day camp for the kids It all sounded very well: classes from 9.00 to 12.30 and lot's of fun activities the rest of the day. We figured, if they wouldn't really learn anything, at least the would hear Spanish all day. After the first day we picked the kids up at 20.00, they were very tired and complaining. They didn't feel very well (we all, except Tibor, developed a stomach flu that day), which didn't help, but also they said that everything was in English. The girl that was their mentor during the afternoon, was surprised  when Maaike said that the kids didn't speak English. The next day they didn't go the class because of the stomach flu, but on Wednesday they went again. We agreed that Maaike would talk to the teacher, to tell her the kids don't sp...

Now that Ardbol Globo really existed, we opened the bank account and transferred the money to the account for increasing the capital of Ardbol Globo, we could sign the last things we had to sign at the notary, before we could sign the purchase contracts. This went all very smoothly, having done all we needed we released all the tensions and were really tired. So instead of visiting Barcena we went to Dorien’s place, did some work there and went to bed early. Ready for our first appointment next morning at 9:00 at the notary. Next day, Maaike woke up first checked the time and called out to Tibor: "It's already 8:15, we have to go now!". Maaike never wakes up that late, but on maybe one of the most important days of our lives we overslept! I think we were so relaxed because we had done everything we had to do, to be able to sign the contracts. Although there were still some uncertainties: we already heard from Ricardo, that one seller probably wouldn't come. He was s...

Because after our holiday in May, we thought that Ardbol Globo S.L. existed, we tried to figure out how to open a bank account online. Since we did the deposit at Santander, we tried there first. It looked all very promising; they had a page on their website for opening a business account online. The first thing that was wrong was that I wasn't able to choose a location where we wanted to do the banking (Miranda de Ebro). Which is surprising for us in itself that you are dependent on a location. Luckily, they have a helpdesk where you can ask for an English-speaking person. After a few days, they solved this bug. Then I had to upload some documents, the most important one being the escritura (the registration document of Ardbol), which I didn't have. So I asked the Notary, who was on holiday, then I asked the gestor, who didn't react. When the notary returned, she sent us the document we set up when we were there. I uploaded that and could continue, but then I got to the po...

At the end of July, we went to Spain for a 4-week holiday. We had plenty of time to get things done around Ardbol and hopefully purchase the village and land. The enjoyable part of the trip included meeting our friend Claire and her family, who were on a road trip in Spain. We showed them the village and they though it was a cool project. And agreed we should do this :) During one of the first days, we had an appointment with the notary to settle the sale of Tibor's shares to Tibi B.V. and to increase the capital of Ardbol Globo S.L. Tibor already managed to get the NIF for tibi b.v. and we had the capital ready, so we were all good to go. However, the notary pointed out, "Ardbol Globo S.L. doesn't exist yet." It turned out that the gestor hadn't registered Ardbol in the Registro Mercantil. We're not sure what went wrong there as the gestor had all the papers from the notary.  The notary suggested accompanying us to the Gestor's office, which was convenien...

 Last year on the festival, Jasmin took the permaculture course, which was taught by Jonás Dallador. One of the few people in Spain who has experience with Food forests. We kept in touch with him and this summer we visited the land together. Luuk, our friend form Holland, who lives in Spain, also joined, so that the language wouldn't be a problem. As it was a hot day we first went to eat paella at the restaurant close to Bárcena. We have been there a couple of times as the have really good paella, although they only have with meat or fish. But this time they did have a vegetarian paella! Even a small local village is improving. We already learned a lot there about cutting the ground, getting water and so on. We talked in mix of Spanish and English, also known as Spanglish. Visiting the land with Jonás was very nice and inspiring. He is very enthusiastic about the land, for many reasons, some of them are: much possibilities to build ponds, were the water from the hills will run into...

To start simple we have setup Ardbol with Maaike and Tibor as owners. But in the end situation Maaike and tibi b.v. should be owners. This is because the capital is in tibi b.v. and having an ownership relation makes it possible to use this capital for the ardbol project. To let tibi b.v. take over the shares of Tibor tibi b.v. needs to known in Spain with a NIF number. Luckily this can be done in Amsterdam in the consulate.   So I went to the website which had a Dutch version. I searched on getting a NIF but could not find any information. So I called the information number. After a long wait I was told the Dutch version was not complete and I needed to check the English version. And indeed there was much more information there.  I found an 036 online from to get a NIF for my company but it started with a compulsory field of a NIF with my name. So it seems I needed a 030 personal NIF first to get the 036 form done. I could download a pdf which I filled in. Not all was clear b...

The first day we went to the bank we also emailed the notary to tell we were going to make the deposit and ask if we could proceed with the next steps that Friday. She responded quickly and so did we. Hence we could answer al questions and setup a the needed documents before our Friday appointment. One of the documents we had to send, were the estatutos. We already made them in Spanish together with ChatGTP. The first time we used it and it worked really nice. We asked for a default estatutos and it came with a document. Than article by article we asked for a translation and we adjusted or changed some what we wanted different. ChatGTP translated it back to Spanish when we were done. We also asked for some items which could be added and it came with a list of things. We added some of them, within an hour or so we had an official document in Spanish. She also needed a name and DNI of an apoderado, which we didn't understand what that was, but she was going to explane on Friday. It t...