Sylvia's Scenario

Yes, they take selfies in Spain, too.  These are Nick's next door neighbors in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain.  We met them while we were visiting last month when Imma and Luis invited us over for coffee. Our little coffee hour turned into about a three hour BFF event.  And we don't speak Spanish and they don't speak English so go figure that one out...Nick was the middle man.   Nick had been practicing his Spanish for about three months and visits a tutor twice a week since he moved to Spain so he is getting pretty good.  "What did he say, Nick?"  "What did she say, Nick?"  Nick, tell her that.....".  Nick, Nick, Nick....Poor Nick but it was really good practice for him and we all actually seemed to understand each other.  We all had translators on our smart phones so we would try that but honestly, it was just easier to communicate via Nick and that's what we mainly did.   Imma served us some pudding cake that was quite yummy with our...

I debated about putting up this post because I know we will be seeing more small towns but Bruce and Nick are golfing today so I have time.   Here they are golfing with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background. We have been spending our time in Spain mostly in small towns because that's the area where Nick lives.  We did go to a main tourist destination of Seville but honestly, I love just living the way locals do and being in small towns. You really get a feel for a place and it's people that way.   We have now  traveled south this weekend from where Nick lives in El Puerto de Santa Maria to the Bay of Gibraltar which is about 1-1/2 hours drive.  There is a festival going on plus they wanted to play golf. Nick also wanted to check out this town called Barbate where it's main export is yellow fin tuna to Japan. Who would have guessed that? Needless to say, we had an exquisite dinner last night full of tuna dishes. Are we in Spain or Japan? The Spanish do eat ...