by Jeni Martinez | Jun 19, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Kindness, Language, Spain, Travel
In retrospect, maybe I should not have chosen a nail salon based on the fact that they had a gorgeous chocolate colored Irish Setter named Pongo working there. For weeks, every time I passed the salon, Pongo peered out the front window at me keeping tabs on all the...
by Jeni Martinez | May 22, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Language, Marriage, Spain, Travel, Yoga
Rocky in front of his namesake bar in Gijon, Spain I don’t know if it is because I was raised on Cheers, the TV show that popularized the slogan, “Where everyone knows your name…” or the fact that I’ve been a yoga teacher for more than 3...
by Jeni Martinez | May 14, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Kindness, Language, Relationships, Spain, Travel, Weather, Yoga
Yesterday we were baptized by our first Gijon galerna, a meteorological event common in this area in the spring and fall and characterized by sudden gusts of cold wind and rain. Primarily associated with the area around the Cantabrian Sea and Bay of Biscay, it blows...
by Jeni Martinez | May 6, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Food, Kindness, Language, Relationships, Retirement, Spain, Travel, Yoga
Celorio to Llanes Trail You’ve no doubt heard of the “luck of the Irish,” but how about “the luck of the Scottish”? Last month, a new Scottish friend of mine, Eileen, joined the intermediate Spanish class I’m taking. Before her...
by Jeni Martinez | Apr 30, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Family, Life and Death, Relationships, Retirement, Spain, Travel
Coffee with a Message Monday, we picked up our tarjetas de residencia (residents cards) at the police station in Gijon. Given all we have gone through to get them, we expected a bit of fanfare when they were presented. Fanfare was not what was on the mind of the...
by Jeni Martinez | Apr 24, 2021 | American Yogi in Spain, Americans in Gijon, Dogs, Ex-pats in Spain, Language, Letting Go, Marriage, Relationships, Retirement, Spain, Travel
We discovered with one whiff that the fresh milk was not so fresh this morning. Fresh milk here does not last as long as it does in the U.S. because it undergoes a soft pasteurization process, heating to 60 degrees C for 60 minutes or at a temperature of 70-80 degrees...
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