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Six months after the fall when I fractured my hip, I headed to Spain.    In Albuquerque, the Delta personnel were very attentive and I got to enter the plane second as a slow passenger.  Of course I had pulled … Continue reading →

What could be better than suquet de peix next to the Mediterranean?  Friends Carolina Yahne and Bill Zimmer from Albuquerque invite d Fabián Armijo and myself for lunch at Willy’s, an appropriately rustic restaurant on a pebble beach north of … Continue reading →

I ended last summer’s travel blog writing about the frustrations of using the internet in Spain.  This summer began on the same note.  Fabián and Martha went to the Cultural Center in Càlig where now there are only two functioning … Continue reading →

Contrary to most of Spain in yesterday’s elections, Càlig voted in a Socialist mayor, the wife of the electrician who installed the electricity in my house 31 years ago. (He was 16 then.) Ernestina has been the spokesperson for the … Continue reading →

For a few years I had dial-up internet in Càlig until I asked for a new phone and then internet service mysteriously disappeared. No explanation was given although I called repeatedly for a few weeks. I resigned myself to nightly … Continue reading →

This morning I heard the church bells tolling announcing a death.  When I went to the Bar Arayo with two New Mexican friends, my friends from here (Càlig) told me the mother of Mari Carmen, a woman who cleaned for … Continue reading →

Tuesday has been market day in Cálig for hundreds of years. Women dress up for the occasion and now plan where they will have coffee – before, during, or after shopping. Some days there are more vendors than others, but … Continue reading →

There was a time in the late 70s when the pay phones worked too well and international students lined up to call home free or they didn;t work at all.  When it was easier to send a telegram than to … Continue reading →

Four days in Madrid at the Aparthotel Andromeda on the 7th floor.  Lots of space and quiet.  An elegant barrio in Madrid.  Lots of interesting streets nearby–la plaza de Santa Barbara, Fuencarral, Hortaleza, and Zurbano where I lived as a … Continue reading →

I will be in Madrid four days.  Hope to visit friends and talk with professors from UNED.