Alicante was the last stop on our trip to southern Spain. It’s another coastal town popular with beach goers and has an active nightlife. I didn’t know much about the city before we started planning this trip, and I was pleasantly surprised at how lively it felt. It still wasn’t one of our favorites for […]
Working our way along the southern coast of Spain, our next stop was Cartagena, Spain. I had wanted to visit for awhile because it looked pretty, and to be honest, I wanted to visit the Licor 43 factory. Andy and I found an apartment and spent one week in Cartagena getting to know the city […]
While planning our month in Spain, Andy and I reached out to some friends we’ve only known online who live in southern Spain. We wanted to finally meet them in person, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. Based on where I thought they lived, I suggested we meet up in Almeria. It turns out […]
Andy and I weren’t really planning on going back to Granada on this trip. We visited a few years ago when we were staying in Sevilla for a month, so we didn’t feel like we needed to return. But we wanted to meet up with friends of ours who live in a village nearby, and […]
Sevilla is a wonderful city. I’ve been there several times now, and when Andy and I planned out our winter throughout southern Spain, I really thought Sevilla was going to be the winner, the city we would return to most winters to get some warmth. It came in at a close second, but it’s still […]
Andy and I spent one week in Malaga, Spain this winter. It was the first stop as part of our Spain experiment to see if we could find a city in southern Spain that might work as a temporary home each winter. Malaga is a popular beach town, but we were more interested in exploring […]
Every winter Andy and I go somewhere warm for at least a few weeks, ideally even longer. We’ve done everything from 2 weeks in Hong Kong and Macau (exactly during their cold snap unfortunately) to several months in Italy and Spain, from almost 2 months in Southeast Asia to 2 one month trips to Central […]
Every year when Andy goes to Essen, Germany for the biggest board game festival in the world, I take a solo trip somewhere else. Most recently it was a trip to Malaga, Spain, a city that was never high on my list. But last year I jammed in too much travel, so I decided I […]
After spending a week in small towns in Andalucia doing a Spanish immersion program, Andy met me in Madrid, and we spent a week in Toledo and Salamanca. Many people visit Toledo as a day trip from Madrid, and Salamanca is a popular university town but not often visited by tourists. But we wanted to […]
Spain is one of my favorite countries, probably because I love practicing my Spanish language skills. When I was there earlier this year, I spent a few days in Madrid by myself, and then Andy met me and we spent a week in Toledo and Salamanca. These were repeats for me but new for Andy, […]