This is our last week in Valencia before we head back to the US for the Summer and Fall.
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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 …
Welcome Genny and Z
Plus: My new favorite place This week we welcomed our niece, Genny, and her friend, Z. We always have an open door for friends and family and we are very glad they are taking advantage of it. We haven’t had so much giggling in our lives since … forever! We’ve mostly been wandering (as usual). …
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 …
Music, Musical and a Movie
Paris loves jazz. We love Paris. We love jazz. But we haven't had a chance to put them together until this visit. We kicked off our not-holiday weekend with a trip to 38Riv, a teeny, tiny jazz club (about 40 people were able to squish in (tiny is being quite generous, the room was about …
Ooh La La
Yay, we're in Paris! OK, so the weather is not what I would call great, but who cares? (Steven does, but he's been quite whiny about the cold lately...It is cold. I don't like it.) We have to tough job of watching Seuss the cat and a beautiful apartment from which we can stroll around …
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 …
