We have been living in Spain for over 18 months now, coming up on finishing the boys’ second year in school. I was looking back on my first “Life in Spain” post, and was surprised about how much of the quirks of our life here I had captured after only Read more…
At the end of our trip to Jordan, we spent a few days in the capital city, Amman. We didn’t have any desire to attempt driving in Amman, so we dropped our rental car off at the airport, and the the hotel/hostel we had booked for Amman arranged a shuttle Read more…
Another big draw for us in deciding to come to Jordan was visiting the Wadi Rum desert. The Wadi Rum desert is home of the Bedouin people, and famous in part for its connection with Lawrence of Arabia. The desert has been inhabited since pre-historic times. It was amazing to be Read more…
One of the big draws for us to go to Jordan was to visit Petra, named one of the 7 New Wonders of the World (this is the 3rd of the 7 New Wonders we have seen – the others are Chichen Itza in Mexico and the Colosseum in Rome. We Read more…
The boys had their Spring Break late this year, since the break in Spain is really based on the Easter holiday (called “Semana Santa” or Holy Week in Spain), which was in mid-April. The timing worked well for us to head to one place that has been near the top Read more…
When we were presented with another school break in February we jumped at the chance to meet up with our good friends (and former neighbors) in Germany. They left for Europe around the same time we did but settled in Munich because of jobs and the language. Our friends live Read more…
We flew back to the USA for the first time in over a year and a half to spend the holidays with family. We divided up our time by spending one week in Atlanta to take care of business (and by “business” I mostly mean going through the many boxes Read more…
The boys had (another!) long weekend in November so we took advantage of a cheap flight to check out Tenerife in the Canary Islands. C had been to Tenerife many, many years before. The island is a very popular destination for Brits and, at least used to be, the destination Read more…
We are not a skiing family but with a popular ski resort only an hour from our home in Southern Spain, it is hard to not at least give it a shot. After a wet November for us, which was a snowy November up on the mountain, we decided to Read more…
10 year old A has written a post sharing some of his favorite experiences while traveling in 2018. #1 is the best and #5 is the fifth. I hope you have as much fun as I had when I was there! #5 – Ljubliana, Slovenia Ljubliana was a very nice Read more…