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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty incredible how ignorant some of these posts are, like “so much terrorism in Spain” or “the French hate Americans”.
Or one year of HS French and you can’t speak the language- no kidding. One year of math and you can’t do integers???
Re camps: There are plenty of language camps for children, teens, adults because, guess what, Europeans learn foreign languages.

Some practicalities:
Check with your health insurance- ours covers emergency services abroad. Other than that, a Dr visit in Spain is very inexpensive- I paid 2.00 to get a prescription filled when I extended a stay abroad and ran out of meds.
Phone has been covered.
Alcohol for teens- talk to your kids beforehand. A glass of wine with a meal is fine.
Laundry- get a place with washing machine- they do have those in Europe 
Drivers license- never had a problem with my US license but if you feel the need, get an international one from AAA.
Money- even grocery stores now take CC, so obviously get some that don’t have foreign transaction fees.[/quote]

You need to check the country for the international driver's license. Rental companies may rent to you with a US license but if you get stopped for speeding in some countries, the police may demand to see an international license and fine you if you don't have one.[/quote]

I will add to this - a mainstream car rental company (can’t remember which but it wasn’t one of the smaller local ones) in Barcelona would not rent a car to me because I didn’t have an international drivers license. Even though other folks that came separately earlier than me were able to rent a car with their US license. So might be worth getting just to be safe. [/quote]

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