Never Retire: Snack Food In Spain And We Saw A 'Karen' Go Off In A Restaurant Here

But, mostly, a review and some food and city porn

Today marks the 25th straight day you have a Never Retire newsletter post waiting for you in your email and the Substack app. I feel like I am achieving my goal of giving you a real-time account of how life is unfolding here in Spain, as it happens.

The posts aren’t perfectly manicured. They just relay how I am feeling and experiencing things as I am writing at a particular moment. I don’t see many newsletters that take this approach so I hope it’s useful, interesting, real and engaging.

Let’s do some math.

If you paid $100 for a founding membership—(which I immediately convert to a lifetime subscription)—this month alone you’re paying just $4 per post. In no time, you’ll be down to pennies per post given that I hope, plan and intend to write this newsletter for the rest of my life. I’ll turn 50 in July and—like Springsteen at 75—I’m not slowing down anytime soon. Heck, go all generous on me and—before you know it—a $500 founding membership divides into dollars, then pennies per post.

Today—

• A preview of where we’re headed this week and beyond.

• A introductory discussion to some things that look, feel and—maybe—are different in Spain, compared to the United States. These things involve social life, children, snack food and adults acting like something worse than babies when things don’t go their way.

• A few random pictures of this beautiful city—Valencia, Spain.

• A handful of links to our most recent posts. Posts that I aim to make useful. So I don’t just talk about—for example—renting an apartment or opening a bank account, I tell you pretty much exactly how we did it.