Just met a wonderful, creative author who has lived in Spain for more than 40 years (formerly of Manchester, England) – Valerie Collins – who has a great blog and a fun book for anyone who plans to visit Espana. Check out: http://inthegarlic.com/ Read more

I knew this was going to happen…during our trip to Spain in December last year, we clearly noticed that a favorite staple of the Spanish diet was pork…in every shape and form imaginable.  You could have it sliced thin as prosciutto;  in thicker, cured chunks called lomo; inserted in bocadillos (long thin sandwiches eaten almost… Read more

One of the last things we did together with Ruth during her visit was to go to the US versus Spain Olympic basketball game at the big Palau Sant Jordi on top of Montjueic.  This is the basketball venue for the Barcelona team and it’s quite large and there didn’t seem to be a bad… Read more

Without a car in Barcelona, we have joined the ranks of millions of people who use the Metro (subway), Ferrocaril (another subway system that runs in the northern part of the city and into the mountain suburbs), city busses, trams, and yes, our feet.  Truth be told, having a car in Barcelona would likely be… Read more

I don’t want to sound too jaded already but the city is very, very busy with summer tourists and we decided that a great way to conteract a bit of claustrophobia is to get out of town for a weekly, day trip “adventure”.  Last week was Montserrat this week was Tarragona. We knew going in… Read more

I am honored to have been featured this week in an interview by Ali Meehan on behalf of Costa Women, a social and business networking group for women living in Spain. Love you to check it out:http://costawomen.ning.com/page/introducing-esther-schor . Here’s the text of the interview in case you don;t feel like joining Costa Women right now – Introducing…… Read more

It’s About Relationships: The Sound of Community One afternoon, Andrew and I took the dogs out for a bit of a wander around some of the nooks and crannies of el Born – exploring for all of us.  I sat down on a bench in a little plaza that had a nice dirt area for… Read more

We have been here for two weeks yesterday, and it frankly feels like it’s been much longer – not in the sense of things not going well, more that we have been so busy establishing and adjusting  our identity and activities of daily life, having guests come and go, and getting our body clocks in… Read more

Kuvo the Obedient Before we left for Barcelona we thought it might be a good idea to at least try to teach Donovan and Candy a few words in Spanish so they could fit in with their local four-legged amigos.  Try as we might, we could not get the simple commands of “sit” and “stay”… Read more