Plus a Valencian History Lesson We've been back in Valencia for a few weeks now and we've made the most of it. We've already reconnected with friends and have begun to reestablish our routines, which means we're back at the gym (oh yay) and are eating our big meal at lunchtime and a delicious salad …
The weekend came a day early for us. Stephanie—(quick digression, you see that "dash" just to the left? Sue will tell you that it is an em dash, (I will tell you that because it is; this – is an en dash and this - is a hyphen) and I never never never use them …
We don't collect a lot of souvenirs. Really just fridge magnets. I sometimes wonder what the total weight of our fridge magnets is, but we buy them because individually they are light and small. This is the long way around to saying that what we do collect is people — friends. On our fraught trip …
One of our friends asked ChatGPT (or a similar tool) to describe our blog. Apparently it said that we were slow travelers. I took that to mean that we stayed in places for a relatively long time and became comfortable in those places (to my family members who are no doubt thinking that it probably …
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, since we haven't had much time to catch our breath for a very good reason: The Monday after we arrived, so did our friends Amy and Adam. They are scouting potential locations for longer stays and we did our best to convince them that Valencia would be …
We arrived one week ago today. It is the start of a one-year, and maybe longer, stay experiment, who knows. Last year we decided that we wanted to move to Valencia for a somewhat indeterminant amount of time. We tried to do this a couple of years ago, but the bureaucracy simply ground us down …
It has been forever since we have written a post. Sorry everyone, sometimes life gets in the way and we lose a bit of momentum to keep up with the blog. A Quick Recap Since our last post, we left Athens and headed to England, with a quick stop in Valencia to set up a …
When in Greece, you have to go to the water and we did. Our last full weekend, we decided to rent a car and head to Nafplio, the first capital of Greece and a very cute old city in the Peloponnese region on the Argolic Gulf. It's about a two-hour drive from Athens and has …
A week ago Saturday we decided that we would take it easy. We started by walking from our AirBnB to the National Garden. It is one of the few large green spaces in Athens, but it was not what we expected. We thought it was going to be a botanic gardens with curated displays of …
A couple of weeks ago, when we first arrived in Athens, my cousin (some number of times removed or something like that) Carol and I went on a food tour. Yum! Greek food is well suited to my diet, and really anyone's, according to me. We booked through Viator and the tour was called "Small-Group …
