This is our last week in Valencia before we head back to the US for the Summer and Fall.
Category: Valencia
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 …
Ta Ta for A Bit
This will be our last blog for several weeks. If Steven doesn't get eaten by a lion (or maybe even if he does), our (well, if I get eaten by a lion, it won't really be our blog anymore, will it?) next blog will appear soon after March 12 when we will have lots of …
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 …
On the Move (On Our Feet)
Last week was a very busy, if not particularly productive week. We joined a gym on Monday, and Sue has been pressganging me into going every morning. If death marches weren’t enough for the weekends, now I have to do them on a treadmill (and other forms of torture) every day! On Wednesday we found …
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 …
Valencia, vale
Or home, temporary home We've been here about a week now, and like everywhere else we've been (except Santiago) we've fallen in love with it. We have a pattern of investigating real estate, discussing how we would make it work, dreaming of life in _____ (fill in the blank), talking through the practicalities and then …
