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Great story Pedro! Sage is quite literally my "Best Friend"......especially since Jana passed last August. She's been through so much with me. I'd be an absolute TrainWreck without her.....

Proper fright I caught, I wasn't used to dogs and was left to fend off two huge Rottweilers while holding a mug of tea! Bless her, 14 is quite a nice age. Mine probably won't live as long.

Hard to believe that some bastard would do that to a puppy, maybe you two found each other as much as you found him. He looks to have bounced back from his surgery and hope he'd well and truly spoiled. Jan brought me into the world of Jack Russels. First we had Charlie who came over with her when she left blighty. He came down with lymphoma and we had to say goodbye, then we adopted Lucy who ended up being my dog and not paying much attention to Jan. Then there was Scooby who we got from the shelter and he is being terribly neglected as he snoozes between us in bed, it's just awful! We said goodbye to Lucy on boxing day, she was sliding into dog dementia, we found her in the morning bumping into the wall as she had no idea where she was. And we are kind of looking for some poor pup to neglect, mistreat and otherwise make miserable

WTF, StateSide we had the million dollar man on the telly jumping buildings during the 1970's! Your NHS is way behind hollyweird!

Its not my fault y;all dont speak "american", see, if you spell well and can pronounce words properly...no EU for You! LOL...

This is why im glad i have a valid EU passport!

Heyup Pete! Xtreme what? Puddle avoidance? Lol ? sorry mate, you must've been expecting that though!!

My wife and I had always figured that we would travel part time or move elsewhere after I retired. We actually had four acres of beachfront property on the island of Roatan and had planned to build there. But as the years went by Honduras became dangerous and our priorities changed. We like a lot of things about Europe. Also, the healthcare situation in the US became just nuts. I was doing contract programming at IBM and getting a fair wage but I found that about 1/3 of my take home was going for medical expenses. Then the orange one was elected and my wife asked me to get her the hell out of Dodge. We did our homework, creating a list of the things we were looking for in a new home and then comparing that against the options. We visited some of the best candidates and took a look around. But what set us on to the Valencia region is when we ran into an expat American at a music festival who had lived here for 20 years. What she told us convinced us to take a closer look and things just worked out. Found a nice house at a reasonable price in La Drova which is about 15 minutes from Gandia. All in all it's been great. We've done some exploring of Europe including a couple weeks in Russia and even Chernobyl. I'm working on the language a little bit every day but it's going to take time. At age 66 one's neurons don't rewire as fast as they do when one is younger. But right now I figure it's important to just stay safe and wait until the lock down opens up and hopefully there's a vaccine.

Fucking leg still hasn't grown back

I don't know if you know Tym but I suspect he's a fraud ?