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At Christmas, all roads lead home. – Marjorie Holmes I didn’t fully appreciate the 12 Days of Christmas until I moved to Spain. What I knew about it mainly came from the song that detailed the expanding number of increasingly exotic gifts. But except for the more diligent Catholic relatives, […]

Have Yourself a Merry Big and Little Christmas

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So why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – […]

The 9th of July: Celebrating American Independence Day, Spanish-Style

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It only becomes art if it touches other people – Andreas Eschbach (Blog post by Tom Carter) Cycling is an inherently beautiful sport in many different ways. Its battles are waged not in stadiums or arenas but in some of the most scenic places on earth. Since the ultimate challenge […]

The Beautiful Art of Cycling

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –  I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost  Time permitting, my husband and I like to turn on the “no tolls” function in Google Maps on road trips. We prefer the less […]

The Road Less Traveled or What Happens When You Hit …

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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen It’s early September. The days are still sunny and hot and the sea and the pools still warm, but now, when I awake around 7:00am, it’s dark outside. The solar lanterns we’ve hung around our casita are still glowing brightly. […]

Talking About Small Things: An Ode to Summer

“Once you begin watching spiders, you haven’t time for much else.” — E.B. White Now that it’s hot, each morning I get out of bed when the sun first peeks over the horizon to water our garden plants. I’m naturally a morning person so I find this task pleasant: walking […]

Spider Man

“I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde On some mornings, if it isn’t too cold, I head to the port for an open water swim. No matter the day, there is almost always a group of elderly Spanish women already in […]

Walking Each Other Home

[Humans] need difficulties. They are necessary for health. — Carl Jung On a Tuesday in early December my husband and I decided to hike up Calpe. Calpe — or Calp, as it is spelled in Valenciano, is an enormous limestone rock that looms over the town of the same name. […]

A Beautiful Adventure: Up Calpe and Through 2020

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“Don’t be put off by this review, it is challenging but rewarding, go prepared and once down safely you will sit with an aura of satisfaction and a reason to ask someone else to go get your drinks….” (SteveL801, Trip Advisor)  Last month, my husband and I finally made it […]

The Eye of the Elephant: Climbing Through Millenia and Marking …

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Charm is a product of the unexpected. — Jose Marti Much of the charm and beauty of a given region lies in those small, out-of-the-way places that rarely appear in travel guides. Indeed, if you were to build a vacation around one of these spots, you’d likely be disappointed. Such […]

A Bump in the Road: The Silver Lining of Car …

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