Thursday, October 25

dealing with the man

I never figured I'd need to obtain a visa to go to Spain; I guess I overestimated the size of the welcome mat that Europe lays out. My desire is to be in Spain for two years continuously, but upon doing a little research I found out that that the automatic allotment is 90 days every 6 months. That seems to mean that after three months I'll have to find someplace else to WWOOF (which should be no problem at all) for the next three months; then I'll be welcomed back. I could have more time there if I had a student visa (but I'm not a student), a work visa (though I hear they're quite difficult to obtain), or a residence visa (which I should have applied for 6 months ago). I'll need to do more visa research, but in the meantime I'm going forward with the by-the-seat-of-my-pants method of travel.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

just overstay your visa, no one cares, americans do it all the time. my friend rob overstayed for a whole year in denmark, and when he left? no one problem.

james said...

Yes, that´s what I´m hearing from a lot of people. I´m much calmer about this issue now. Thank you.