Day 145: Last Full Day of Happily Doing Nothing — Dinner in Mijas
This is the last full day at the villa here in Mijas with the Voorhees and Peun clans. We awoke to cooler temperatures and the first clouds we have seen...
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Day 144: Claire’s Birthday — Lunch and Beach at Marbella Club Hotel
I can’t believe my little sister is 39 years old! We’re celebrating with a beach day in Marbella. Travel agent friend Bobby Zur hooked us up with Francisco in guest...
Day 143: Chilling and Grilling at the Mijas Villa
We happily re-racked another super chill sunny day in Mijas. Slow wake up without one alarm sounding — even Oscar slept well. Coffee, breakfast, kids playing outside, grownups reading, writing,...
Day 142: Mijas Villa with the Voorhees Crew — Peuns Arrive!
It was a slow and sunny morning here on the Costa del Sol. Everyone rolled out of bed between 8am and 10am and grazed on breakfast throughout the morning. Everyone...
Day 141: Voorhees Clan Arrives!
We awoke this am to the exciting sound of the Voorhees family pulling in to our driveway!! They’d survived their overnight flight and were ready for Cousin Time! Willa gave...
Day 140: Adios Madrid — Hola Andalucia!
We caught an 11:30 am flight (#36 of the year) to Malaga without incident. We loved seeing all the family-friendly airport lines at the Madrid airport. Hadn’t seen that stuff...
Day 139: Willa’s 7th Birthday!!!!
We woke up with a seven-year-old in our apartment! I keep thinking about what someone said to us about Willa back in Valparaiso, Chile — he was an American tourist...
Day 138: Day Trip to the Medieval City of Toledo
Got up and went to Siclo again. Loved it. We decided to join Lobsy and “The Sisters,” as Willa and James refer to them, on a daytrip to Toledo, which...
Day 137: Very Chill, Sunny Day in Our Barrio — Dinner with Ventura Pobre and Joao Santos
This was a super chill day. I was still not feeling great — low energy, sinus pain and rubbing my face raw from constant nose blowing. Same morning program: late...
Day 136: Surgical Strike at the Prado — Free Afternoon — Teddy Sick — Flamenco Night!
I woke up feeling pretty terrible. I was flattened by a cold, my sinuses were throbbing, ears popping and my nose wouldn’t stop running. We had another slow morning followed...