Alice, a foreign exchange student from Spain, came to live with us for four months in 2021. She and my daughter, who was only ten at the time, became very close friends.

We visited Alice in Santander last year. She and her family were very good to us while we were there. They took us sightseeing in between visits to their favourite Spanish restaurants. They spoiled us, actually!

I’ve quite enjoyed looking through our Spain photos looking for door pics for Thursday Doors!

The first photo I have here is of the beautiful Hotel Bahia, which is where we stayed during our few days in Santander. We were thrilled that our room had a sea view.

Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join in and create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week, visit nofacilities.com for more information.

Thank you for reading today. Before you go…

Would you like a peek inside the pages of my fictional novel? It might just be your cup of tea!

Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.