This is our last week in Valencia before we head back to the US for the Summer and Fall.
Category: Travel
Fallas!
I know we have more to write about Kenya, but I thought we could jump ahead to our first weekend back in Valencia. It was time for the annual Fallas festival. According to Wikipedia, the festival was originally a celebration of spring when the local artisans would burn scrap wood that was used during the …
A weekend in Granada
We are slackers. We haven’t written a blog since New Year's. Sorry. We didn’t do very much the weekend before last. A short – 8 mile – death march to the beach and back, watching American football and generally being lazy. Last weekend we made up for it. We had a three-day weekend because my …
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2024
Happy New Year to everyone, we hope that 2024 is a healthy, happy, and eventful year for all of you (the last one only for those who are like us and like their years eventful). We started the New Year’s weekend on Saturday by marching our way all the way across Paris to a museum …
Just a Little Bit of Walking
Valencia is where the red pin is I thought it might make sense to provide a few maps that will give everyone an idea of where we are that way when we discuss distances, places etc, it will make sense. As Sue said in her last post we are staying for the next six months …
Our final few days in Berlin
Wednesday morning, we signed up for a driving tour that followed the outline of the Berlin Wall, in a Trabant! For those of you who are not car buffs, the Trabant was the standard car in the GDR from the early 1960s until reunification. Over that period, the car basically did not change. The one …
Happy Idiots: Year 3
The third round of the Happy Idiots tour started on Tuesday night when we flew from Miami to Copenhagen. We are spending five days visiting the city in part to visit Sue’s niece Jillian who is studying art there for the semester. We took an overnight flight that stopped at Heathrow and we arrived in …
Here We Go Again
I sit here writing this in the home of my wonderful mother-in-law (yes, I can always use more points for excellent sucking up) where we are once again leaving the Saab. The next leg of our adventure awaits. You probably know the plan: Copenhagen to Berlin to Valencia to Paris to Valencia to Kenya to …
The best laid plans…have to start somewhere
Our plan for the next 6 months beginning in November is to head to Valencia by way of Copenhagen and Berlin with a three week safari in Kenya in February. As always, I have created my travel spreadsheet that keeps track of what we have/haven’t taken care of. Last Saturday this is how it looked: …
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Living in Washington, DC
Wow, it has been a couple of weeks since we posted. Sorry loyal readers, we have been quite busy and just did not get around to scribbling down our notes. My mother returned to Florida at the end of August after spending a week with us. My mom is a real trooper, walking hither and …
Doing It On The Road 