Spending the Christmas holidays away from family was a sad thought, so we decided we would visit the closest that we have to family in Switzerland. My stepfather’s brother’s family is from a tiny village in the canton of Valais, which is very close to Zermatt. So we decided to make a stop on our …
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Zermatt
Living in Southern Spain would mean a 65° Fahrenheit Christmas. That didn’t seem right to us, so we opted to hop on one of the crazily inexpensive flights you can get to travel within European countries and spend a few days in Zermatt, Switzerland. To get to carless Zermatt, you must arrive by train. The …
‘Tis the season
Usually decorating for Christmas is something the whole family enjoys. This year, however, we aren’t putting much energy into it since, one, we don’t really have any decorations, and, two, we will be traveling for the last half of December. Our decorations consist of a Poinsettia plant that some friends gave us, a ceramic penguin …
Morocco
As we planned for our year in Spain, we made a list of all the places we wanted to visit. Morocco wasn’t on the original list. After we selected the region of Andalucía We realized how close we would be and thought it was an important opportunity to experience a very different culture. I have …
Tarifa
It is awesome when we can actually experience places that the kids study in school. Tarifa is one of those places. Oliver learned in his Geography class that Tarifa is the location in Spain where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean come together and really wanted to see it. As we began planning for our …
Gibraltar
One of our goals while living in Spain is to travel around Europe since there are so many countries relatively close. So we decided to use all of the kids’ school holidays to travel. Our first opportunity to travel outside Spain was a four day weekend (one day to celebrate Spain’s constitution and the other …
Thanksgiving
There is no Thanksgiving in Spain, but we still wanted to celebrate. Unfortunately, We don’t get any days off to celebrate in Spain, and our weekdays are too busy with school, sports and music, so we decided to celebrate on Sunday. We invited the family of one of of Oliver’s friends to join us. They …
La lluvia
Introduction by Oliver It’s raining, it’s pouring, the Old Man is Snoring. When we got here we thought that it would not rain that much. I think we were wrong. We have had a whole week of rain nonstop practically. One day it was pouring so hard that if you stood out in the rain …
Soccer discovered chestnuts
By Oliver One day we were riding back from soccer practice and we came across a stand by Paseo Larios, which is a main pedestrian road in the middle of town. The stand was cooking something in pans, so we stopped to investigate. They had two foods: castañas (chestnuts) and sweet potatoes. We got castañas …
La Biblioteca
We are big library users. Figuring out how to access the local library was a big priority when we moved here. There are three libraries in town. Biblioteca Torre Del Mar, Biblioteca Municipal Maestro José Ramos Cabello, and the Biblio Playa. Turns out, getting access to the library is not that hard, since we have …
Adrift in Andalucía 