Category: Madrid
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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 […]
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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 […]