It is with great sadness that I report that after nearly four years, we have left Spain. This has been an absolutely amazing journey, and we have enjoyed it so much. Alas, reality calls, so we are moving on to…well, that is a story in an of itself, and when Read more…
Hello – we are still here! We have just been in a bit of a travel slump lately. Actually, let me rephrase that, we have been in a travel BAN lately! We spent a large chunk of the last school year stuck in the Granada province here in Spain. Being Read more…
Oh 2020, you’ve been a trip! (but not like a physical trip, since we haven’t really left our little town in more than three months…). Just like the common experience of basically all fellow inhabitants of Earth, our last few months were dominated by the pesky coronavirus, COVID-19. It is Read more…
We will take a break from our regularly scheduled programming (in our blog world, we are still enjoying a week in the snow in Finland), to share a bit about life here in Spain in the midst of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Spain has suddenly emerged as the 2nd worst Read more…
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…
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…
I’m still working on writing about our 10 week summer trip through Europe (and you can see what I’ve written so far here: European Road Trip), but I wanted to give a quick update, real-time, of what we are up to now. We are back in Spain, living in the Read more…
We’ve been living in Spain for more than seven months now. With school just finished for the summer (finally!), and we are about to leave town for a European road trip, I thought I would do one more post of what we think of life in Spain. I wrote an initial Read more…
We have a big (our first!) multi-day hike in the Pyrenees planned for the end of June, so we bought a bunch of supplies, including new hiking shoes for everyone. We needed to break them in, so we decided to head to Monachil, Spain, near Granada to a hike about Read more…
In Andalucia, close to Granada, lies an area famous for its homes built directly into caves in the rocks. This is also the site of one of the oldest settlements in Spain, dating back to the stone age. However, the caves in this area are a bit more modern, dating Read more…