How Four Kids Lost Their Parents to Madrid’s Drama and Churros
Meet Joe and spouse: post-wedding nomads who fled U.S. sanity for a year in Madrid, battling hostile ATMs and landlord speed-dating with deposits, just to secure a flat near the scenic Madrid Rio. He taught middle school, she juggled writing gigs from two continents, while they binged on churros, vintage scarves from El Rastro, and vodka shots with Joe's Lithuanian relatives. Adventure peaked with a bee sting disaster on El Camino de Santiago turned into an episode of ‘Backpack Wars,’ as she hauled their entire camping load solo. Now, with four kids, traveling Europe sounds great, but coordinating diapers and flights is sharper than migratory bird logistics. All those framed travel pics are basically a shrine to sanity pre-kids.
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Moved to Madrid pre-kids to bond; now jointly plotting geopolitical diaper negotiations and whether a tantrum counts as carry-on luggage. Spoiler: it doesn’t.
Turning ‘¿Cuánto cuesta?’ into ‘How much for sanity?’ while screaming at ATMs and hauling bees’ revenge on El Camino. Romance, European style.
Went abroad to save marriage; returned with four kids, several sleepless nights, and a PhD in international diaper diplomacy.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/25/2025 | Author: Jenna Jonaitis
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