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MJ + SEVEN in Spain

Hi! We’re MJ and Seven — a Filipino couple living the digital nomad life in Spain. https://linktr.ee/myjseven

04/11/2026

Seven used to walk 5 to 10 kilometers a day to and from school in the Philippines, just to save the jeepney fare for recess. In Oviedo, he walks because it's beautiful. 🚶

Back then people would ask, "Bakit ka naglalakad? Wala kang pamasahe?" And the answer was yes. Walking was survival.

Here, walking is part of life's rhythm: streets built for it, plazas, and the Senda Verde winding through green hills and old railway tunnels. Even the elderly walk, slowly and with intention. His legs have known long journeys. Now they just feel lighter.

We film our walks around Asturias: search MJ & SEVEN on YouTube.

Did you walk to school to save pamasahe too?

Read the full story on our blog.

We're a Filipino couple figuring out Spain, one slow day at a time. Hasta luego!

04/11/2026

If you grew up in the Philippines, you met this line in Araling Panlipunan: "a country run like hell by Filipinos." So… did Manuel L. Quezon jinx us? 😅

On the blog, Seven gets real about it. More than 40 years in the Philippines, loving the people, the humor and the food, while tired of being asked for "resilience" every time a basic system fails. The quote ends with "we can always change it." In 2025, we changed something. Not the government. Our zip code.

Does that make us less Filipino? Absolutely not. You can take the Filipinos out of the Philippines, but not the love for sisig.

Your take: waiting for change, or making your own?

Full story on our blog: "Did Manuel L. Quezon Jinx Us? A Real Talk on the 'Run Like Hell' Prophecy."

04/11/2026

Telepizza, Papa Johns, Dominos...which one is the best in Oviedo?

03/11/2026

Spain’s snap election: what happened, the key dates, who votes and what’s on the ballot.
Full details on our blog: “Understanding Spain’s 2026 Snap Election: The Facts, the Timeline and Policy Implications”

We’re a Filipino couple figuring out Spain, one slow day at a time. Hasta luego!

03/11/2026

Spanish to Filipino word of the day: sobra. In Spain, las sobras are the leftovers. In the Philippines, sobra is the whole mood. 🍽️

In Spanish, sobra means excess, more than what's needed. Las sobras are what's left on the table after a meal, and "de sobra" means more than enough.

When the word reached the Philippines, it stopped sitting quietly on the plate. In Filipino, sobra means too much, beyond measure: "Sobrang sarap nito!" (This is way too good!) And when you've had enough: "Sobra na!"

We film our slow life here in Oviedo too: search MJ & SEVEN on YouTube.

Which one did you grow up saying: "sobra" or "labis"?

Read the full story on our blog.

We're a Filipino couple figuring out Spain, one slow day at a time. Hasta luego!

02/11/2026

Years ago MJ said, "I will never live in a foreign country. I'll only visit." Kinain ko ang sinabi ko. 😅 (POV: Wife)

She's the eldest of five, a breadwinner Ate and a licensed architect who used to say no to school field trips because she knew the budget. She thought being panganay had prepared her for immigrant life. Then the first two months in Spain came: homesickness, missing family and their two dogs, Botchie and Scavi.

What helped: prayer, the right friends here, and her mother's voice in her head. Buy what's needed; the wants can wait. No food wasted. The "boring" girl and the "adventurous" boy met somewhere in the middle.

Our everyday life in Oviedo is on youtube.com/

Panganay ka rin ba? What did being the eldest teach you?
Read the full story on our blog.

02/11/2026

"A story that was never told
Something like a mystery
And every step we took we've grown
Look how fast the time has flown
A journey to a place unknown
We're going down in history"
- Pyramid (Charice)

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02/11/2026

Driving in Spain with a Philippine licence? The Philippines is on Spain's list of countries whose licences can be exchanged, and for a car licence there's no driving test.

What the DGT says: classes A1, A, B and B+E are swapped without extra exams. The fee is tasa 2.3, €28.87, plus a medical fitness report from an authorised driver medical centre (Centro de Reconocimiento de Conductores).

The catch: once you're a resident, your foreign licence is only valid for 6 months. And it has to have been issued before you became resident, so a licence you got while already living here can't be exchanged.

We film life around Asturias: youtube.com/

01/11/2026

Happy All Saints' Day. On a quiet Sunday in Spain, we keep coming back to a line we heard in Rome: "Hope isn't passive. Hope is courageous."

We're members of Couples for Christ, and in 2025 we joined the CFC Global Conference in Rome, in the Jubilee Year of "Pilgrims of Hope". We registered before we even knew if our DNV would be approved. By then we'd already moved to Spain on a one-way flight, with no fallback plan, just our skills and a dream.

Back home it's Undas, and our hearts are with everyone visiting the ones they've lost.

Our Rome vlogs are on youtube.com/

How is your family spending Undas this year?

01/11/2026

Undas, far from home.
This weekend the Philippines and Spain remember their loved ones on the same days, each in its own way.

Back home, Undas means the whole family at the cemetery: candles, flowers, food and kwentuhan, often until late at night. This year 1 and 2 November are both special non-working days in the Philippines.

In Spain it’s Todos los Santos. Families bring flowers to the graves. Bakeries sell huesos de santo (“saints’ bones”, little marzipan rolls filled with sweet yolk cream) and buñuelos de viento, fried cream puffs. In the north, people gather to roast chestnuts. 1 November falls on a Sunday this year, so here in Asturias the day off moves to Monday 2 November.

Fun fact: Undas isn’t an acronym. Filipino dictionaries list it as a word that came from Spanish. Many trace it to “honras”, the solemn Mass Spaniards hold for the dead.

Visiting someone this Undas, or lighting a candle from far away?

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