Last weekend I took a course to learn how to cut jamon professionally. If you’ve never tried jamon you are missing out, it’s worth a trip to Spain for just this. Because we like jamon (and Milo really likes to be around when it’s cut because you can’t do it without dropping [...]
I had a heck of a cold for the last few weeks of December, I lost my voice for the better part of one week along with it. As I was recovering I was reminded of how different some aspects of health care are here. For things like colds you just go to the [...]
Shannon and I recently went to the Dominican Republic for a vacation with my family to celebrate my mother’s 60th birthday. When I returned home and got a taxi from the train station to our house I was reminded what a crazy language Spanish can be. The rules for pronouncing words in Spanish are straightforward [...]
Normally when we travel one of our friends keeps an eye on our house; keeping the plants alive in 100 degree or more heat requires daily watering. In the winter though things pretty much take care of themselves in our house while we’re gone, except for the mail. We don’t receive enough mail to worry [...]
January 2nd is a holiday in Granada called “La Toma de Granada”, the taking of Granada. On January 2, 1492, the Muslim king of Granada surrendered the keys of the city to the Christian Kings (Los Reyes Catolicos), Ferdinand and Isabella. Granada was the last part of what is now Spain to be returned to [...]