Adventures in Europe Blog

Valencia Opera House
  • Friends, Fallas & Fireworks

    23 March 2025 What a full week! My friends Eric and Dan were here this week from Boise to experience the craziness that is Fallas in Valencia. Monday, I went… Read more

  • Fallas!

    16 March 2025 (Warning! Long blog post, with lots of photos) After three weeks of the worst cold I’ve ever had, I’m finally getting better…and just in time! I had… Read more

  • Re-emerging

    9 March, 2025 It’s been another quiet week in Valencia. We have had an unusually wet week with so much rain that that they issued flood warnings and closed schools… Read more

  • Sick!

    2 March, 2025 I don’t have much to share this week. I’ve been home, sick with the worst head cold of my life. It’s just lots of congestion, coughing from… Read more

  • Music and friends.

    16 February 2025 First off, in my last post I misspoke. Thankfully! The concerts weren’t that week, they were this week. So, the last two weeks have really concentrated on… Read more

  • Quiet Weeks are Good Too

    2 February 2025 Choir has been getting busier and busier. That will consume my attention for the coming week. I’m trying to practice at home when I can with recordings… Read more

  • Steps forward

    26 January 2025 My visa renewal took a step forward this week. I needed a copy of the contract for my health insurance that included the start date for this… Read more

  • Visas and other stuff

    19 January 2025 The big news this week is that my application to continue my student visa has hit some snags. I’m not panicking but it’s been going on a… Read more

  • Bocairent

    12 January 2025 Monday was Epiphany, the Feast of the Three Kings. That meant almost everything was closed for the day. There were no classes. And after all the activities… Read more

  • Exhausting week!

    5 January 2025 Happy New Year and Happy Kings Day! I hope your new year is off to a wonderful start. Mike (my friend visiting from Denver) and I continue… Read more

Welcome to my blog!

I’m Jim. After a divorce and then an unexpected layoff, just a couple years prior to retirement, I decided to jump start my retirement dream of living in Europe. After a trip to Spain, and specifically Valencia, I felt I had found my home. Lots of folks have asked to follow my adventures. So, Adventures in Europe was created. Feel free to follow along!

Stay updated with the latest twists and turns of a guy just crazy enough to follow his dream.

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