Travel

During my many years of traveling and living in Spain, I always dreamed of someday walking the Camino de Santiago from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, otherwise known as the Camino Francés because of its starting point in France. This is the most popular pilgrimage route across the north of Spain into Galicia where […]

On May 28, I finally made it back to Spain after being in the US since December.  There were a number of factors which made me stay stateside. First, in Spain, a strict limitation of movement between regions was still in effect. Essentially, people were forced to stay in their home cities and/or “comunidades” until

Towards the middle of September it became very clear that Spain was experiencing the second wave of Covid-19. Although mask wearing had been mandatory in public since the middle of July, Spain really began to see an uptick in cases by early August and politicians and news outlets across the country readied the citizens for

On March 1, I returned to Madrid via the AVE train from Valencia. While on the train, I noticed several passengers wearing elastic gloves and masks. I had been following the events in China since early February and even told a few friends back in the United States that something very serious was happening there

February is usually chilly in central Spain with daytime temperatures around 54°F and nighttime temperatures around 37°F, dispelling the myth that it is always sunny and warm here. Madrid is located on a “meseta” in a high plain close to 2200 ft. above sea level. It is a dry cold which beats the wet, U.S.

I just returned from a brief trip to Palma, Mallorca and I am still trying to absorb the experience of such a beautiful island. In my early 30’s I had caught a ferry with a buddy to Ibiza but that experience was 48 hours of partying at the discoteque PACHA and sleeping until the late

In late September and in early October, I was lucky to have two good friends visit from the USA. Christian had just finished a bike tour in Cataluña and he said that he wanted to extend his Spain vist for a few more days and see some of central Spain.

This is my first Blog post and I am retracing my steps a bit to the beginning of my year here in Spain. I arrived in Madrid on the 24th of July and spent the final week of the month in an Airbnb in the Salamanca neighborhood. I used this week to catch up with friends and to plan out my month of August.