Category: Coronavirus
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Welcome 2021, Farewell 2020
2020 has probably been one of the worst years any of us have ever known, but in spite of that most of us still have an awful lot of things to be very thankful for. Our items of thankfulness for this year include: 1. Being retired from health care; 2. Having our extended family healthy, […]
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Last Days of Socializing
One month ago today we took a train from Madrid to Barcelona to spend Sandy’s birthday weekend in Sitges with our stalkers Andrew and Dick. We have already written about the first part of the weekend in “Living and Traveling in a World with a Pandemic Coronavirus”. Watch the video above and hear Dick […]
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Last House Guest in Spain
Tom O’Toole arrived in Seville the evening of March 3 having flown in from LA. We first met Tom in February of last year in Mexico City through other friends. He actually stayed a few nights with us in CDMX and then we met up with him again in LA while on our way to […]
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Three year anniversary
We moved out of our home in Boston on March 25 2017 and have leased our condominium to four families since then. We have been back into the home a few times since but have not lived there. We have had a second home in the US with our oldest daughter Jennifer and her husband […]
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Our Flight From España
We were able to book Iberia Air’s direct flight from Madrid to Boston today. We were up early and out of our apartment before nine for our 12:30 flight. As Jim was calling an Uber Sandy caught a taxi van on the completely empty street, which we needed. Four days shy of three years since […]
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Lockdown in España Day 6
We have finally come to our senses and decided to comply with the strict lockdown rules in Spain. We have realized that if they allow ANYONE to walk the streets or go for a run then everyone will be out on the streets and social distancing will not be possible. They are also dictating that […]
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Lockdown in España
We are in day two of a complete lockdown, shelter in place, in Madrid which is the epicenter of COVID19 in Spain. After dinner tonight we took a bowl of Jim’s black bean soup out to give to our local street person that we pass everyday. He seemed genuinely thankful and the soup was still […]
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Living and Traveling in a World with a Pandemic Coronavirus.
Today is Saturday the 14th of March. Initially Madrid seemed to be business as usual. After checking into our penthouse three bedroom, three balcony Airbnb we did our usual grocery store restocking of a new home and had dinner very nearby. The morning of the 11th we did our usual exploratory run. We encountered a […]
Living the retirement dream 