New Beginnings
Beth parked her suitcase by the bed and sighed contentedly in anticipation as she opened the wooden shuttered doors leading to the hotel-room balcony. The Mediterranean sun felt welcoming as she admired the majestic rise of the distant volcanic mountains, wreathed in hazy mist against a vivid blue sky.
Her gaze meandered down the winding cobbled streets of dusty pink villas with purple and white geraniums tumbling from tubs on balconies; the air scented with orange from the trees around the plaza in front of the hotel, the chime of church bells bringing back glorious memories of her honeymoon here in Spain many years ago. She and her new husband had hired a boat
