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Italy

Rome, Italy – A dirty, gritty, amazing city

We were not in Rome long enough What a gorgeous and historic city. We were in Rome for only two and a half weeks and of course we were super busy working and so we didn’t get to see nearly as much as we wanted to see. However, what we did see was historic and […]

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Spain

Canet de Mar, Spain

Canet de Mar is a town right in the middle of the Catalonian region of Spain (the Northeast) on the Baelaric sea. When it was sunny the beach was heavenly, warm, and the sand large-grained and gritty.

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Spain Travel

Me encanta Sevilla – I love Seville part three

Ah Seville. I wish there was some way I could really express what you mean to me. Oh well, photos will have to do! One thing that has been very cool is getting lots of Spanish practice in. Most of the time, not all, but the conversation just flows and the other person doesn’t try […]

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Spain Travel

Me encanta Sevilla – I love Seville part two

Seville with a quick trip to Cordoba We did lots of wandering around Seville in between working and schooling the kids. We are following the NZ school year and so around 16 December we had the annual “Prize Giving” to commemorate the end of the school year. The kids rolled their eyes a little bit, […]

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Kids Learning Spain Travel

La Sagrada Familia – the little knight on the door

When we went to La Sagrada Familia, the church in Barcelona by Gaudi, I saw on the doors there was a small knight. We didn’t know the name of the knight but he certainly looked crazy! We liked the doors at the entrance because they were covered in letters, words in Spanish from the Bible, […]