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Roadtrip, Boston to Erie Pennsylvania
We both retired in January of 2017 after 50 years of nursing for Sandy and 40 years of Emergency Medicine for Jim. Sandy had two retirement parties as she retired in March of 2016 and then returned to per diem work for a few months until Jim walked out of work for the last time […]
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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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Sigi and Paul in Seville
It is now Friday April 3 and the world has changed a bit since we started this blog. Now that we have endless time on our hands we have decided to continue writing and posting from time to time. This is our next to last house guests in Seville. We started writing in Madrid about […]
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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 […]
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The Braverman’s in Seville
Jennifer and Sophie Braverman take yearly mother/daughter trips and visited us in London, July 2019. We invited them to visit us in Seville and husband/father Igor was able to get the time off to accompany them. They left Boston the evening of 14 February expecting to arrive in Seville the next afternoon. Unfortunately they left […]
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Córdoba
Córdoba is only a 45 minute ride on the fast train from Sevilla which makes it an excellent day trip. It is also a fairly small city with only a few major sites that we were interested in seeing. Its past history is notable for having served as a regional capital for both the Romans […]
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Philip & Phyllis in Seville
There is a saying that one can choose their friends but not their family. Philip is Jim’s younger brother by five years and Phyllis is his wife of 43 years. We could not choose any better friends than these two. We invited them to spend time with us in Seville and were thrilled when they […]
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Arcos de la Frontera, Tangier & Gibralter
Jim rented a nice little Audi from Sixt and we headed out with Dick and Andrew for Northern Africa with a few little detours. Our first destination was Arcos de la Frontera which is the queen of Andalucías white hill towns. These towns are perched on white cliffs of the sierras covered with whitewashed buildings. […]
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Stalkers in Sevilla
Andrew and Dick flew from Barcelona to Sevilla on January 22 arriving early afternoon. To date they have joined us in every non-US city we have lived in with the exception of Melbourne. They would have come to Melbourne but they were in the process of renovating their new home in Sitges Spain. Jim booked […]
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Falling in love with Sevilla España
Our first non-running exploration was to Catedral de Sevilla which is one of the largest churches in the world and is the largest gothic Cathedral. We rushed to the Cathedral hoping to make a 1:30pm tour but instead attended mass as it was closed for tourism due to ongoing services. We stayed for the whole […]