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Pamplona
Hemingway reportedly made Pamplona world famous for its weeklong festival of the running of the bulls when he wrote The Sun Also Rises in 1926. We are going there, not for the Festival of San Fermin as it is known in Spain, but to begin a 451 mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Our goal […]
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Deb Does London
Deb Camara has become a very close friend and an adopted daughter. We first met Deb as a childhood friend and running companion of our daughter-in-law Catarina Gomes Cipriani. Deb is a social worker dealing with high risk children in Somerville Massachusetts. It is a very intense, high stress job which she is very adept […]
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More Guests in London
Our last two weeks in London we are double booked at times which requires our houseguests to find alternative accommodations which they all accomplished quite well.
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Philip & Phyllis in London
Jim has three brothers all of whom have been featured in this blog from time to time. The youngest brother Philip and his wife Phyllis last visited us in Seville. They were scheduled to visit us again in Madrid this spring but were unable make the trip due to Covid issues. Given that we missed […]
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Braverman’s in London
Jennifer Ludlum Braverman worked with Jim in the Emergency Department and then with Sandy in the PACU at Lahey Clinic. She then met Igor Braverman while working in the PACU as he was an anesthesiologist. We have watched them through their courtship, marriage, childbirth and parenting of Sophie. Jennifer and Sophie visited us in London […]
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Münich
Our six night stay in Munich was set in motion by our now very close friends Sigi and Paul who we first met in June of 2018 through an email connection initiated by our Boston neighbor Peggy Scott. We have gotten together many times since then both at their lovely home in Richmond UK and […]
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Last Days in Porto
Dick and Andrew left us on the 19th of July and we have seven more days to explore Porto on our own. One day was spent walking the Portuguese Camino which we have already written about. After they left in the morning we headed for the Pálacio de Bolsa, also called the Stock Exchange Palace. […]
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The Stalkers Find Us In Porto
Our upstairs neighbors from a past life, Andrew Buzzi and Dick Maniace, deserve the credit for inspiring our present lifestyle of living wherever we desire around the world. Unlike us who have completely dispossessed our selves of everything, they have been accumulating houses, furniture and even a car. They have recently sold houses in Sitges […]
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Porto Portugal
We have now been to the Açores twice and to Lisbon once in 2014 for Jim’s 65th birthday but we have never been to Porto, the second largest city in Portugal. Portugal is intriguing to us as we don’t know enough about it. It is relatively inexpensive and the language is quite difficult to understand […]
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Take another walk in our shoes. Caminho Portugues da Costa
There are numerous Camino de Santiagos and as part of our training for our second attempt at completing the Camino this October we are enjoying trying out short segments of other Caminos. We walked about 17 miles out of Madrid on May 24 and we thought that it would be fun to now walk out […]
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AZORES with Jason and family
We just spent three weeks visiting four of our five offspring in four different states. Our fifth family lives in Florida which is our permanent address. We are not big fans of Florida so were delighted to hear that Jason and his family were going to visit Catarina’s birthplace on the island of Sao Miguel […]
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Home to Friends and family
We have been traveling the world now for over six years and truly houseless for a year and a half, yet we keep coming back to Boston as this is where we lived most of our lives. The majority of our friends are in this area and it is a great hub for connecting to […]
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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 […]