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Spain Travels: Santander

At the direction of the gentleman that runs the language school, Joaquin, we made an overnight stop in Santander, Cantabria, on the way back from Bilbao. He is from there, and told us it was worth a stop. He also printed a map, told us a couple places to go for a drink, and whatContinue reading “Spain Travels: Santander”

Spain Travels: Bilbao

Travels in Bilbao, July 2021

Museum trip: Nicanor Piñole Museum (Gijón)

Nicanor Piñole Museum (Gijón)

I Miss Museums (Part 1 of what I missed during Covid-19)

Covid-19 sucked, sucks and continues to suck for a lot of reasons, many of them highly important, including the loss of life. For those we have lost, I try to remember to celebrate their lives and thus live my life with importance, reverence and purpose, for them especially. For me, there are three things IContinue reading “I Miss Museums (Part 1 of what I missed during Covid-19)”

Travels in Asturias: Villamayor

Hiking trip to Villamayor in Asturias, Spain

Routines

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”

Long Looks

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”

Here Comes the Ocean

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”