Month: December 2022

Wander the World Joyfully

Buckle Up

December 13 Day 63 Unrestrained Christmas Cheer in Málaga. This evening was my present. It started out like this. He’s such a good guy. Any city with a dog in their Christmas decorations is all right with me! We had some great Tapas in a lively atmosphere! A colorful decoration in a city neighborhood. Wouldn’t…
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Gibraltar Redux. (Our first trip is on the blog.) Joe’s here! Yay! And he wanted to see Gibralter! This marks the Pillars of Hercules.  There’s another peak just across the Mediterrain Sea/Straits of Gibraltar facing this one. We visited St Michael’s Cave again. This time looking down. Our taxi tour guides took us to the…
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Flamenco

Hi Reader! Its Dec 12  Day 62 Hey!  We found some festivities and I finally caught a cold… I think the cold was in the crowd at this Flamenco Recital we stumbled upon. These girls were adorable! These girls were very serious. The beauty in front kept giving her Mom the stink eye for being…
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Marbella 5

December 9 Day 59 K It’s raining. Pretty windy and cold actually.  So we are staying home today. The internet is sketchy too, as I already did this post once. And lost it.  So I really hope this one is as funny and entertaining as the first one was…. I thought I would post some…
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Friends

December 7 Day 57 Through the miracle that is Facebook, I connected with a GTP pal who now lives in Spain! Lori and Thomas picked us up in Marbella and hosted us at their cool hacienda for the day! They have made a good life with horses next door and a pool right outside and…
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Zahara de la Sierra

December 6 ( traveling day) Day 56 Zahara is east of Ronda.  South of Seville. We gained about 2,000 feet in elevation on this drive. Zahara is a city above a resoirvoir with the obligatory  castle on a rocky outcropping. We drove to the top of the hill, advice given to us in Lisbon, by…
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Ronda

December 6, (travelling day) Day 56 We made it to a couple of the “White Villages” in the mountains of the Sierra in Southern Spain. There are lots of White Villages tucked into mountainsides. From Catalina Island to Mexico to Central America to Portugal, this is the way people tuck into the hills.  We wondered…
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Marbella

December 6 Day 56 The last time I wrote,  we were moving here, to Marbella, for 2 weeks. Tony was the Timeshare King on this trip.  It also helps that it is way off season.  It’s pretty quiet here. We went to our local Cor Supermercado and got some provisions. Here is the best $10…
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Bones

December 2 Day 52 Faro, Portugal Hello Dear Reader, This trip has been great! Our brains are so stretched that we are sleeping very well at night.  And some afternoons! But not this day. This day we learned that you can’t rent a car in Portugal and return it in Spain. So Tony rented another…
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Surprise!

December 2 Day 52 Silves, Portugal We finished our week in Portugal touring the Southern coast a bit. But got totally distracted by one beautiful place. We found out Dec 1 was a holiday when our first venue was closed. Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo.   The home of the Bone Chapel. Happy Portuguese Independence…
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