Category: Travel
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Nepal and the ABC Trek
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…
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Halloween Colors With Family
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…
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Summer Hikes in Not-Here
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…
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Fallas
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…
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It’s Snow Fun in Austria
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…
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This Time, Morella
We wanted to take advantage of my shiny new Spanish driver’s license, so we made reservations with our usual car rental company. On Friday the 31st, we grabbed a cab to the train station to pick up our car, Spanish ID, temporary permit and “rookie” card in hand. At the rental office we were informed…
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An Andalusian Hike, A Visit to Toledo
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…
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Italy? Italy!
Well what do you know? This Europe thing might just work out after all. For the first time since we arrived, we got out of Valencia to make the two hour hop to Venice Italy. Just like that, with carry-on bags and no big plans, we hopped on a plane to meet up with our…
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Cuenca
Situated about midway between Valencia and Madrid, Cuenca sits at the mouth of a river gorge atop limestone cliffs. Its strategic value in controlling the confluence of the Júcar and Huécar rivers was first recognized by the Moors in the early 8th Century and they promptly built a fort and got to work developing agriculture…
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