ILA Magazine: Discover the Best Retirement Haven + 14 MoreWhen I tell people I’m travelling through Southeast Asia they usually picture me backpacking my way around, never staying more than a few nights in any one place. But that’s not my kind of travelling. I like to take my time in a place, ease in to the way of life and discover all it has to offer. This may take a month, two, more…
Selfishly, I thought that nobody knew about the beautiful, cultured, artsy Spanish city of Girona and that I could keep it as my secret place. But it's impossible to keep a place like this under wraps. I fell in love with Girona and moved here in 2012. This charming, fun, easy-going city checked all my boxes. I can walk or cycle everywhere through beautiful streets that are full of history. It's full of delicious gastronomy, cheap local markets and regular cultural events to keep me interested. Surrounded by mountains I'm close to nature and if I crave the sea, it's just a 40-minute trip away. Or in three hours, I can be up in the snowy mountains, whizzing down ski slopes. Girona is also well connected by train and air to the rest of the country and Europe.