This should be a well known fact but just in case you didn’t know it, don’t EVER agree to an automatic conversation rate when you take cash out of foreign ATMs or pay with CC while in foreign countries. You usually have a choice if you want the charge to be in a local currency … More ALWAYS SAY NO to Automatic Coversation Rate Offered by Foreign ATMs
Lisbon, Portugal Nina carries these country flag cards everywhere we go. Some are quite worn out from his handling of them. All the cards for the first few countries we’ve visited have written notes of dates we were there. So many “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences have happened just in the first 8 cards (countries). We plan to … More Traveling with Nina
We are on the move again. Left Seville, Spain this morning and heading to Lisbon, Portugal now. But first, beach time in Albufeira, southern cost of Portugal (no filters!).
June 10 – June 14, 2019 Seville (Ronda/Zahara), Spain – 4 nights After having a few good days in Malaga with Henry and Kiki, we were definitely heading back down on our emotional teeter-totter. It wasn’t immediately obvious how sad Petra would be after our friends left. On our drive from Malaga towards Seville, we … More Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Seville, Spain I’m trying to speak Serbian these days since it’s our perfect opportunity for Maksim to learn more. His 3-month stint learning Serbian last summer has been minimally successful.He understands it a bit but fights it hard. When I tell him something in Serbian that is longer than a few words, he yells back … More Learning Serbian
Not all aspects of travel are great and not all days are picture perfect. Traveling can be lonely at times, quite lonely. We are together at all times, without much interaction with others. We have casual encounters with strangers but those are not deep connections, the ones where you feel like you have been “seen” … More Not All Travel Days Are Good Days
June 6 – Jun 10, 2019 Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain – 4 nights From Cartagena, we drove through Granada and Malaga to the beach town called Torremolinos.We were all smiles during these 4 days there.Our friends from Holland, Henry and Kiki, hopped down for a quick visit and I think it’s quite obvious how happy they … More Malaga, Spain
You know those Microsoft Windows desktop photos of gorgeous places around the world? Pedja tagged one of those photos a couple of yrs ago as a bucket list item for him to see “some day”. That “some day” just happened as we spent 4 days in Cullera, Spain, and visited nearby Valencia while there. We … More Leaving Cullera, heading to Malaga, Spain
March 30 – June 6, 2019 SpainGava – 1 nightCullera (Valencia) – 4 nightsPlaya Paraiso near Cartagena (Granada) – 2 nights In our 4th month of travel, we were all on a constant teeter-totter between having amazing, once-in-a-lifetime type of days and seriously upsetting, emotionally charged ones. We all got lonely this month and at … More Start of a road trip, Valencia, Spain
Malaga, Spain This is what happens when you are held captive for a 3hr drive with no other electronics. You finally get to read more than 10 pages of a book in one sitting. To be precise, you actually read 170+ pages of 240 in total in one sitting and even continue reading it after … More New Reader in the Family
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