So I did it. I relocated to a beachtown.
In mid-February. Not before Madrid slogged through what apparently became the biggest snowstorm in over 60 years during which half of the trees in the city were damaged or destroyed. Who knew - they name their snow storms here.
At any rate, in mid-February I moved to Peñíscola. I'll pause here for a few minutes while everyone giggles that I live in penis-cola... not even marking that the letter is ñ... making the word be pronounced <pe NYISS cola>. Which apparently means peninsula.
It is a small beach town located in the Province of Castellón in the autonomous community of Valencia, about halfway between Valencia and Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast.
Surprisingly, you may have have actually seen Peñíscola, as it served as the location of Meereen in Game of Thrones. Additionally El Cid, starring Charlton Heston (Mr NRA Himself) was filmed here.
It sports a Templar castle constructed in 1295-ish, which was used as the final home of Benedict XIII from 1417-1423 - a pope of the Avignon Papacy.
I take my earlier Christmas visit to Avignon as foreshadowing of my move to Peñíscola - at least in a proximity to anti-pope residences theme.
