Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:48am
It’s not hard to do this yourself at Almeria City DGT (Trafico). If you also have some Spanish it can help.
You need to get the medicals done first, a few weeks before your DGT appointment. The medicals are two things: a computer screen test of your ability to judge speeds; and a simple sight test.
As Dario says, if you live here in Spain you don’t need an IDP and your EU driving licence covers you everywhere in the EU (and indeed the world) including the U.K. Fortunately Brexit seems unlikely to happen but if it does then the U.K. govt has said that the U.K. will accept EU driving licences.
We sadly got a speeding fine a day after obtaining our Spanish licences - no connection! But we were relieved that we had the temporary Spanish licence documents in the car to show, as if we had not exchanged our UK licences for Spanish ones we could have been fined more...
Chris