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Every Saturday in Girona’s hundred-acre La Devesa Park, people gather amass to buy cheap clothing, hats, rugs, knick-knacks, fresh groceries …
Saturday Market
13 Saturday Apr 2013
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April in Paris
11 Thursday Apr 2013
The Costa Brava
07 Sunday Apr 2013
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We love our hosts! Vicens and Jeanette own the apartment we’re renting in Girona. They have provided us with an astounding place to live (remind me someday to tell you about the hot tub that shoots fountains in the air), and yesterday – quite to our surprise – they offered to take us on a drive to the Costa Brava, the “rugged coast” of northeastern Spain. Thirteen hours of unremitting wonder!
Jet Lag
04 Thursday Apr 2013
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At ricksteves.com, Louise’s favorite travel guide says, “On arrival, stay awake until an early local bedtime.” Yeah, but Rick isn’t turning 70 in thirteen months.
Innocent As Charged
31 Sunday Mar 2013
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When we purchased our airline tickets we figured we were in trouble. After all, they were hundreds of dollars less than the closest competition. But hundreds of dollars will buy “tons of tapas in Spain,” we said. So we gritted our teeth and went with the cheap seats. It’s only a ten-hour flight, we thought. We can do it.
Two Drifters
30 Saturday Mar 2013
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…off to see the world. (at the Portland airport)
The Final Tally
27 Wednesday Mar 2013
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Robin paid in cash. Wads of bills and pocket change. All told: $1,969.47. I carried it to the bank – surreptitiously looking around me as I walked – and dumped it on an unsuspecting teller as if it was contraband. Which in a way, is what it was.
It’s Getting to Be That Time
26 Tuesday Mar 2013
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Nuri Kilani, ca. 2010
A friend of mine died a couple of weeks ago. His death brought his friends – very good friends – together. We cooked together. Drank some beer. Laughed at memories. Exchanged hugs and tears and backslaps and fistbumps. And at one o’clock last Friday night we buried him. Threw his ashes in the air and watched them sparkle in the moonlight.
Surrender
20 Wednesday Mar 2013
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OMG! I didn’t mean to sell that! It happens. It happened to us today when we visited the just-posted estate-sale website of our stuff. It’s an exercise in folly. And fate. And, well, surrender.
Venus and Mars
18 Monday Mar 2013
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With a sigh of relief, everything destined for our storage unit is now there – and there’s room left over. It’s kismet. However, two disparate storage strategies have emerged, vindicating the Venus-and-Mars interpretation of the gender binary.
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