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About a year ago, our British hiking buddies Colin and Jane asked us if we were interested in doing the Annapurna Base Camp trek in Nepal. We thought that was a swell idea and agreed that a Spring 2024 date was achievable. What followed was a year of preparation, panic, exercise, doubt, confidence and ultimately…

We have family in the country. Our niece and nephew Katy and Joe and their daughter Elsa are teaching in Barcelona for a year. We hadn’t seen them and they had some time off for All Saints Day so we grabbed the train to BCN, rented a car and took them up to the foothils…

August in Valencia is a great time to be somewhere else. High heat and humidity drive even the locals out of town. Most businesses shut down for the month and the smart expat will take the hint and find somewhere cooler to be. Cindy found a company that offers supported town-to-town hikes in the Czech…

Las Fallas is a uniquely Valencian event that usally takes place in March every year, in which elaborate sculptures are constructed and painted over the course of the year, assembled…and then burned. It’s the biggest event in Valencia every year and this year it was even bigger because it had been postponed for two years…

I’ve been remiss. We have not actually gone into stasis since our last post but I got busy and/or lazy so now I have some catching up to do. Right at the end of February we ran off to Austria to meet our new British friends and get some spa time in along with snow…

The end of October and the first week of November saw our first visitors from the States and the last really good weather of the fall, and it all came together in Andalusia (Andalucia en Español) and Toledo. Canillas Cindy’s ski bus pals Jo-Anne and Joan had joined a bicycle tour from Seville to Málaga…