El Palmar is a small town near Valencia. It’s in the Albufera National Park and on the shore of the…
Do you speak Valencian?
Greetings from sunny Valencia where yes, Spanish is spoken, but the real official language appears to be Valencian. Like the…
What’s your happy travel thing?
We’re pretty die-hard minimalists at this point in our lives. That’s not to say we don’t like stuff. I enjoyed…
Truth in travel
I’ve long said I should do truth-in-travel posts. Instead of a beautiful seascape, I’d show the bus stop where the…
Could it be…friend season again at long last?
A brief summary of the past two years: plans were made, plans were dashed. Plans were made and dashed so…
The pro-Joan plan
We know some people who are the antithesis of who we want to be as we get older. (No, it’s…
New year. Now what?
We don’t make resolutions, but we do mark each big turning of the calendar with a theme or a phrase…
From indecision to out the door, 2 days
In our last episode, we were in Italy. Was it just November? That’s almost 6 years ago in Covid time.…
On seeing the Leaning Tower of Pisa
“Surprise is the great enabler of seeing” Alan Jacobs How can you see a place that you’ve seen a million…
Getting back on the travel horse, plus the Elsa river in Tuscany
We’re back to our semi-nomadic ways and oh, how we’ve missed it! Ok, maybe not the schlepping of the bags…
