Madrid - September 3, 4, 5, 2018 Okay, Madrid is the place. We will return here. We hope to return and simply live here for 3 months or so. Our intent will be to enroll in classes to learn to speak Spanish. We feel good here. It's easy to get around. Everyone speaks a little English and most everyone here is willing and excited to help us learn Española. Plus it is one of the most beautiful cities, we have ever seen. To say it is deep in culture and...

Madrid, September 2, 2018 On a map we saw that not far from our apartment is a park, and oh what a park it is. We thought it might be a good place for morning exercise on this Sunday morning. The walk there was nice taking us through the Lavapies neighborhood, past the Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum and the foot of the Estacion de Astocha (the big, fancy train station). Calle de Alfonzo XII is widely divided a tall sycamore tree lined, multi-lane boul...

Madrid, September 1, 2018 Wow! We started this trip on July 24! Now, it is September. A person's life evaporates, literally evaporates. Single days become weeks and months. Rare momentous; most are just routine unless we really feel and see the day. Each day is a one in a lifetime event. How often we forget! I'm certainly not professing that I actually see and appreciate each day but I do remind myself to see the sky, study the clouds, look at the ...

Costa del Sol, Spain - August 29, 30, 31, 2018 Malaga! I catch my breath when it truly hits me that Stan and I are in fact in Malaga, Spain. And in only one week when we leave Spain and arrive back in Atlanta all this will still be here. Day after day, this amazing place will still be here. We spent much of the day on Malaguerta Beach. It's a city beach, and it offers award-winning people watching. The sand is brown, almost black; the surf is ligh...

Malaga - August 28, 2019 The high speed train to Malaga was in fact very high-speed. We changed trains in Cordoba and continued on. We arrived in the southern Spain coastal city of Malaga around 1 pm. Scenery along the route was varied and beautiful. We roared through small towns where the high speed train does not stop. We passed freshly harvested golden fields accented in the background with dark fields of newly tilled ground. There were fields of sunflow...