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Chapter 23: What Will We Eat in August?
“Will you be closed in August for vacation?” I asked the woman behind the counter at the artisanal bakery. She looked like both an artist...
Kay Diaz
Aug 24, 20225 min read
Chapter 8: Happy as a Pig in . . . .
“I can only eat so much jamón,” is a refrain Kate and I have often heard over the years from friends in the States when sharing stories...
Kay Diaz
Mar 29, 20202 min read
Chapter 7: Love in the Time of Coronavirus . . . or, The Wedding Registry We Never Had
We settled quickly into our new apartment in a 150-year-old atrium building, located in the Malasaña neighborhood within the original...
Kay Diaz
Mar 24, 20203 min read
Chapter 6: Seriously Driven
We left the hotel in separate taxis, as required by the lockdown laws. The streets and sidewalks were eerily deserted. Under Spain’s...
Kay Diaz
Mar 22, 20202 min read
Chapter 4: New Neighbors
New Yorkers often say that small town life is alive and well in America — it just happens to exist in a city of 8.5 million people. In...
Kay Diaz
Mar 18, 20203 min read
Chapter 3: A Walk in the Park
We quickly settled in to a one-room efficiency near Plaza de Antón Martín, a V-shaped plaza near Atocha, one of Madrid’s major streets....
Kay Diaz
Mar 17, 20202 min read
Chapter 1: Departure
“Expired,” read the LCD reader on the credit card slot on the luggage-cart dispensing-machine at Newark International Airport — and my heart
Kay Diaz
Mar 14, 20202 min read
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