The Spainfully Honest podcast is your friendly guide to moving to Spain, living in Spain, and actually feeling at home once you arrive. We talk openly about Spanish visas, paperwork, working in Spain, relationships, and everyday life in Spain. No hype, no horror stories for clicks, just real conversations, honest advice, and the things we wish we’d known earlier.
Hosted by two friends and long-term residents of Spain, Catherine and Paul, the podcast is based on their real experience of relocating to Spain, settling in, and building a life here.

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Catherine McGeer is an Irish journalist who has been living in Spain for over 23 years. She calls Murcia home, though she’s also spent time in Madrid, and is the proud mum of two sons, both born in Spain. Catherine writes for a news website covering local and national stories and brings her insider’s perspective on Spanish life, culture, and current events to her podcast, sharing the stories and experiences that matter.

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Catherine McGeer

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Paul is a retired businessman who first arrived in Spain in 1997 to set up a Restaurant in Andalucia, returned to the UK in 98 and then realised the mistake and went back to Spain, to the Murcia Region in 2002 and has been there ever since. He was an Estate Agent initially and ended up as the head of a major Furniture business in Spain until 2022 when he retired. He says ” I have made some good decisions and many bad ones in Spain , and not always learned from them, but often the bad ones are more memorable, and indeed more useful “. He hopes his experiences will help those already here and those thinking of the move……

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