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Audrey and Neil in Madrid
Sandy first met Audrey and Neil, both Anesthesiologists, in the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Lahey Clinic Peabody in the early 2000’s. They became friends and occasionally interacted socially with other friends introducing Jim into the mix. In 2016 Jim had major surgery and Sandy asked Neil to administer his anesthesia. After our retirement in 2017 […]
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Camino Madrid, take a walk in our shoes.
We have committed to finishing the Camino de Santiago this fall, but not by the same route that we followed last year. Sandy really wants to walk the traditional Camino Frances route. We have elected not to do the first leg which is a steep ascent over the Pyrenees mountains on day one. Instead we […]
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Deb in Madrid and Seville
Deb Camara was best friends with our daughter-in-law Catarina Gomes when they were growing up. We first met Deb at Catarina and Jason’s wedding and then got to know her better, years later through different running events. She was the youngest member of Sandy’s “sole sisters” running group which originated through a running club which […]
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Peggy, Paul and Sigi in Madrid
It’s a long and complicated story as to how the five of us met, but Madrid will be the first time and place that we have all been together. Peggy became our neighbor in Boston in 2007 and we immediately became friends. While in London in 2018, she introduced us to Sigi and Paul by […]
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Donna and Mark in Madrid
We first met Donna Quirk at 75 Chestnut Street, a restaurant and bar, in Beacon Hill, Boston. We were sitting at the bar discussing the start up of a Beacon Hill Running Club (which never happened) when Donna joined the group sitting down next to us. At the end of the night Donna discovered that […]
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MADRID ESPAÑA
We left Madrid March 21 2020 as the pandemia was overtaking the world and especially Spain and Italy. We returned to Spain on September 12 to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. We are now returning to Spain on March 12, exactly six months later to resume our experiencing Madrid. It all seems very […]
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Memories of San Miguel de Allende
We spent three and a half months in San Miguel which is more time than we usually spend in one place but it was nice and warm and very comfortable. We have many fond memories and have summarized them in pictures below.
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Almost a Full House
Mike and Gayle Oulighan have visited us before in Paris and Mexico City. Deb Camara has made plans to visit us but the pandemic changed those plans. Gayle and Deb are part of Sandy’s running friends who first met in 2010 when Sandy was training for the Athens Marathon. They call themselves “The Sole Sisters”. […]
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Brothers
We rented a large home here in San Miguel de Allende as we were hoping for a lot of visiting friends, but Jim was also hoping to pull together a reunion of his three brothers. The reunion of all four brothers did not happen but we were able to convince two of the three to […]
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Bill and Karen
John William Boyle was a classmate of Jim’s from 10th grade through medical school. They roomed together the first year of medical school and have remained friends through the years. Bill was the smart one, valedictorian and awards, while Jim has always been the practical grounded one. Karen planned our Camino trip as she and […]
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Monarch Butterfly Tour
So one day after spending three hours in a van with twelve other people doing a tour of Guanajuato we are again at the San Miguel de Allende Public Library at 7am for a 12 hour tour. We get the same rattletrap van but this time it is just the Bailey’s, a driver, a guide […]
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Guanajuato
Guanajuato is the capital city of The Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato which is one of 36 states which make up the United States of Mexico. San Miguel de Allende is in the state of Guanajuato. Located in central Mexico it is known for its silver mining and colonial architecture. Its network of narrow […]
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A Full House in San Miguel
We rented a four bedroom house on four levels with a garage, outdoor space, multiple terraces and a hot tub as we were expecting a lot of guests. In the first two months we have only had four visitors due to holidays and fear of traveling. Well on January 10 we are filling up this […]
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Christmas in Oaxaca
Having escaped from Huatulco with Paul’s help we finally arrived in Oaxaca late afternoon and took a taxi to our Airbnb which Emily had picked out
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Our Mexican Rescue
Jim’s firstborn nephew, Paul Steen and his wife Alicia came to visit us on December 19 and on December 22 we all flew to Oaxaca to meet up with our youngest daughter Emily and her partner Tim who had been in Mexico City for the past week. Paul and Alicia are picked up at 5am […]