Phone plans

Our t-mobile phone plans include low-data-rate service in Europe. It is handy to have phone service right away. It is not handy to have a LOW data rate but it works for email and basic stuff. So we always get a Spanish SIM with a high data rate. We have always used Vodafone although it has issues and we think we might switch each year but but we haven’t yet. So that is an errand for the first day. Charlie switched his phone to an eSIM so he has both services. Wynette brings a back-up phone which holds the t-mobile SIM.

For some reason the prepaid plans do not include texting but we can still text on t-mobile. But just about everyone in Spain uses WhatsApp so we normally use that.

Margarita

On our trip last year we spent a week in A Coruña at Margarita’s Airbnb and became quite friendly with her. We flew into A Coruña this time and arranged to have lunch with her. After we finished our meal she suggested we go to the beach across the street and take a selfie. An interesting thing about Margarita is that when she was younger she was the Spanish woman’s national epee champion.