Starting over again in Spain

Warm afternoon sun, a glass of red wine and music from a distant guitar. I took this moment to stop and take a bite of a plump, green olive. I was here. I’d done it. I’d left my old world behind and started a new life in Spain.

Don’t we all have moments in life when we want to just walk away from it all? Start over, someplace a little warmer, a little wilder. Away from ringing phones, clogged inboxes and constant calendar updates? I certainly did.

I never really knew what I wanted to do in life. Like many people, I drifted into working a job in the city that I didn’t like but didn’t