Author Archives: Phil Barrington

Vacation times are the best of times, no? Even if you are on a tour of the Balkans or cruise to the Caribbean or an African safari, where you have set things to do, you never have to do them. When we arrived in Gijón, it was over a year after the Corona virus hadContinue reading “Routines”

Many friends and family have asked Jesse or myself this question, once we said we were moving to Spain, but not working, “What are you going to do?” and they did not mean it rudely (at least I didn’t take it as such, but it seemed that they couldn’t fathom not having something to do,Continue reading “Long Looks”

Jesse and I chose Gijón for a few reasons, but a big one is its closeness to the ocean. Growing up near Lake Michigan was nothing like living by the Pacific Ocean, which I was lucky enough to live next to for the last five years in Long Beach. Alamitos Bay was calming and IContinue reading “Here Comes the Ocean”