• Day trip to Gibraltar

    Well, it’s certainly been a full day.  We moved out of our Almunecar house this morning and drove down to Southern Spain so we could hop over to Gibraltar.  There’s not a ton of things to do, but we went to the top of the rock, moseyed around town, and…

  • A Photo Tour of Almuñécar, Spain

    When we arrived on the Costa del Sol, we scouted out 5 different towns before deciding where to settle down for 2.5 months.  Almuñécar was the last of our stops and we fell in love with it as soon as we saw the town from the road.  It’s about 27,000…

  • Our House in Almunecar, Spain

    Now that we’re only 5 days away from leaving, I suppose we’d better get around to actually talking about where we’re staying.  We’d originally been planning on staying in town near the ocean, but never found a place that was the right fit.  So, we smoked the budget a bit…

  • How Living in Spain is Different than the US

    Adjusting to our life in Spain was much easier than adjusting to Thailand.  Spain was probably easier because it’s first world and much more modern.  Plus Chuck and I both speak a bit of Spanish so it’s easier to figure things out. Strangely, we found more English speakers in Thailand…