Living the retirement dream

We are sharing our ideal retirement experiences.

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  • Rest Day in Burgos

    Rest Day in Burgos

    Our rest days are always highly anticipated as we don’t have to get up early and rush out into the cold darkness and start walking. We do have to find a lavanderia and wash all of our clothes though. In the larger cities we also search out ethnic restaurants other than Spanish for a change…

    Living our retirement dream

    November 1, 2022
    Abba Hotel, Burgos, Burgos Cathedral, El Camino de Santiago
  • Belorado to San Juan de Ortega and on to Burgos

    Belorado to San Juan de Ortega and on to Burgos

    This is another 15 mile day which is about our daily average and there are more rolling hills which keeps it interesting. We leave before sunrise using our headlamps. It is quite cool at 52 degrees but with the exertion and humidity we get sweaty quite quickly. San Juan de Ortega has a population of…

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    October 29, 2022
    El Camino de Santiago
  • Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and then on to Belorado

    Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and then on to Belorado

    Our typical days are getting up at 6-6:30am, breakfast at 7 and heading out in darkness 7-8. We like to walk 4-6 miles before stopping for another breakfast as the breakfast fare at our lodgings is fairly meager with minimal fruit, cereals, maybe yogurt with lots of bread, ham and cheese. Jim likes a Spanish…

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    October 27, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago
  • Logroño to Najera

    Logroño to Najera

    After a one day rest, nice bath soaks and all freshly laundered clothes we are ready to set out on a 16 mile day which ended up being 17.7 with over 1,000 feet of elevation gain.

    Living our retirement dream

    October 18, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Logroño, Najera, Rioja
  • Rest Day In Logroño

    Rest Day In Logroño

    We have only walked four days and 61.85 miles. but are looking forward to a rest day in Logroño which is a city of 150,000 with a Cathedral of course. Our hotel is adequate, in the city center and has a bathtub which is great for soaking our sore bodies. Actually neither of us has…

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    October 16, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago
  • Camino de Santiago Francés, From Pamplona to Logroño

    Camino de Santiago Francés, From Pamplona to Logroño

    We walked almost half of the Camino del Norte just one year ago now. We did well from San Sebastián to Bilbao and from Bilbao to Santander. Jim began struggling and we had to abort the pilgrimage on October 3 in San Vicente de la Barquera when Jim just felt that he couldn’t go on…

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    October 15, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Pamplona
  • Pamplona

    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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    September 30, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Pamplona, Running of the bulls, San Fermin
  • Deb Does London

    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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    September 25, 2022
    London
    Come from away, Death of Queen Elizabeth II, London
  • More Guests in London

    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.

    Living our retirement dream

    September 24, 2022
    London
    Covent Garden, Frogmore Cottage, Frogmore House, Grenadier Pub, Imperial War Museum, Kensington Palace, Pretty Woman, River Cafe, Royal Automobile Club, Royal Mausoleum, Rules London, Tate Britain, US Embassy London, Veeraswamy, Windsor Castle
  • Philip & Phyllis in London

    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…

    Living our retirement dream

    September 10, 2022
    London
  • Braverman’s in London

    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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    August 27, 2022
    London
  • Münich

    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…

    Living our retirement dream

    August 21, 2022
    Munich
    Bergenz, Munich, Oberammergau
  • Last Days in Porto

    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.…

    Living our retirement dream

    August 20, 2022
    Portugal
  • The Stalkers Find Us In Porto

    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…

    Living our retirement dream

    August 14, 2022
    Portugal
  • Porto Portugal

    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…

    Living our retirement dream

    August 12, 2022
    Portugal
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