500 Saturdays: Nomad Diary

  Talking to Owen on the phone. Darrell doing his Spanish lesson while Percy the Cockapoo sets up his ball for fetch. Beautiful view of the English Channel with a rocky beach. Me at the Walmer Castle Door! In the moat with fall colors. One of the beautiful gardens on the castle grounds. Me playing at Walmer Castle playground.  Saturday Activities. Saturday 22. Today is my 58th birthday! I have always loved my October birthday and I am partial to fall weather and the seasonal memories. Leaves changing colors and falling. Soups, sweaters, chilly cheeks, crisp air. I love it all in the fall. Today was so lovely with sunshine and clear skies over the English channel in our town of Deal. Darrell wishes me happy birthday and tells me that it is all about me today! After we complete our morning DDP stand up routine and give Percy, our pet dog some love and attention, Darrell offers to make us pancakes. I accept and we have a grand breakfast with dark coffee, homemade pancakes made wi...

  Our Bridgend neighborhood. Darrell walking Roxy. Tapas Restaurant in Bridgend. Saturday Activities. Saturday. 15. Today was living at our housesit with Roxy the Shih Tzu. We take turns walking her in the morning and in the evening. With our plan to take the train tomorrow to Newport, about a 30 minute ride from Bridgend, we want to find out how long it will take us to walk to Bridgend from our house. The distance is about 2 miles, and we decide to walk there with Roxy and have lunch then walk back. We enjoy the nice weather and the pathway for walking with our little dog. She does great and we find that it takes us about 40 minutes to walk to the train station. We find a lunch place and have lunch while Roxy hangs out under our table. We order three small plates to share: a chicken chili with salsa verde (it was really basil pesto! lol!); Korean chicken wings and salt and pepper squid. We enjoyed our lunch and then walked back to our house. We rest at our house. Darrell does his ...