Its summer in Spain.  The town feels abandoned. Shops are closed.  Windows are covered.  Spaniards are hunkered down most of the day waiting for the cool of night. Well, the Spaniards left in town.  Most of them are at the beach.  So, we go too!  

I’ve been meaning to get this blog entry uploaded, but have gotten busy with our spring weekends that I didn’t get around to it.  So,  while Bryan was away recently, the kids and I planned a trip to a pretty town perched on a cliff called Cuenca.  It’s like a big version of the nearby […]

  The kids and I took a super fun trip down to our favorite beach town: Moraira.  It’s cute and small which is rare along the coast near us.  Massive resort towns are the norm, so we love little Moraira and the fact that it’s a bit less Spain and a bit more England. Unlike […]

“I see Don Quijote!” My kiddo yells.   It’s yet another statue of the famous lanky knight here on the plains of La Mancha, where traditional windmills called molinos still stand on dusty hilltops waiting to be conquered, where rivers roll down canyons past lazy cliff top villages, and where most tourists speed past. I’m standing […]

The past weekend found us fighting the wind along a scenic stretch of the spiderweb of trails that make up the multi-use Ruta de Don Quijote.  This trail system is designed for walkers, horseback riding, and bikers like us.  It is well marked throughout the Spanish state of Castilla-La Mancha, though internet information is hard to […]