On Wednesday, Wife and I drove from Madrid to our base for the next month, El Campello. This is our third year visiting this town outside the city of Alicante on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Coming here last fall, I commented on coming back here 'felt like home'. I wrote about how special the particular rental was. I waxed rhapsodically about the quality of the morning light.
As we approached the town, I was wondering, "Had I built things up too much? Would this be like so many things where you have a great experience but then come back only to find that the circumstances are not quite the same and it is not that same vibe." As we were let in, we looked around. What had changed? Was it still this same gold standard of a rental as before?
It literally only took maybe an hour to be totally settling, arranging everything as we'd had it before, enjoying the pleasures of the fully equipped kitchen. Today we did a big shopping and the major Costco/Walmart like hypermart, Carrefour. I didn't even need to use the GPS. I remembered where almost everything was in the store.
We've been enjoying the air flowing through the apartment, the sound of the of the ocean, taking the walk along the waterfront.
I wondered if we would ever be able to just 'relax and chill' in a place. Evidently, the answer is yes.
2 comments:
I am sooooo glad to hear this!!
Yay, welcome back home!
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