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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 […]
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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 […]