{"id":7985,"date":"2025-10-20T00:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:55:41","slug":"veinte-anitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/10\/20\/veinte-anitos\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, October 19th 2025 (festivity of Saint Peter of Alc\u00e1ntara, patron saint of Extremadura, my homeland), marks exactly twenty years since I relocated to Ireland, happy anniversary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By way of celebration, I went for a lovely walk around Harmonstown, the area where Fredi and I lived for the first three months of our Irish adventure, before moving to Dublin\u00b4s city centre (thanks, Rafa and Hern\u00e1n, for welcoming us into your house back then; staying with you made the adaptation period easier and much more fun). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Picture of the DART station in Harmonstown. The DART is the short-distance train system in Dublin city and surrounding areas, and back then, it was our primary means of transportation, together with the bus, which, if I recall correctly, was route 42B.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u00b4s when I would typically say, \"OMG, time flies\", \"it seems like yesterday\", \"if someone had told me I would end up staying for twenty years\", etc., etc., etc. And yes, they\u00b4re all clich\u00e9s, but they\u00b4re also true in this case. On the one hand, I get the feeling that it all happened in a heartbeat (as Carlos Gardel used to sing, \"twenty years is nothing\").<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, I look back and realise how much progress I\u00b4ve made, how much I\u00b4ve matured and changed. And to be honest, I feel proud. Proud of what I\u00b4ve achieved so far in different aspects of my life, and most of all, proud of the three little ladies who didn\u00b4t exist back then and are now the three people I love most in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it\u00b4s good to spend a bit of time looking back, as we said in this post on the trunk of memories<\/a>, to be able to appreciate the path that brought us here, and continue to walk with renewed energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I am thankful, and I raise my glass for these twenty years in Ireland, plus all the years still to come! Sl\u00e1inte<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoy, 19 de octubre de 2025 (San Pedro de Alc\u00e1ntara, patr\u00f3n de mi tierra natal, Extremadura), hace exactamente veinte a\u00f1os que llegu\u00e9 a Irlanda para quedarme, \u00a1feliz aniversario! Para celebrarlo, me he ido a dar una vuelta por Harmonstown, la zona por donde vivimos Fredi y yo los primeros tres meses de nuestra aventura irlandesa, … Continue reading Twenty years<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":7983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Veinte a\u00f1itos \/ Twenty years","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Este octubre va de n\u00fameros redondos: 10 a\u00f1os en Fidelity, 20 en Irlanda \/ This October\u00b4s theme is round numbers: 10 years in Fidelity, 20 in Ireland","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diario-journal","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-24N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2021\/07\/25\/vida-risas-amor\/","url_meta":{"origin":7985,"position":0},"title":"Life, laughter, love","author":"binarybea","date":"25\/07\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Siguiendo con el recorrido tur\u00edstico por los cuadros de mi casa, \u00e9ste est\u00e1 esperando pacientemente a que lo colguemos en la pared de mi cuarto: Beatha, G\u00e1ire, Gr\u00e1 son las tres palabras en ga\u00e9lico para Vida, Risas, Amor\u2026 La \u00fanica que s\u00e9 como se pronuncia es Beatha [ba-ha], y es\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Arte"","block_context":{"text":"Arte","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/category\/arte\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beatha-Gaire-Gra.jpg?fit=1140%2C647&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beatha-Gaire-Gra.jpg?fit=1140%2C647&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beatha-Gaire-Gra.jpg?fit=1140%2C647&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beatha-Gaire-Gra.jpg?fit=1140%2C647&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beatha-Gaire-Gra.jpg?fit=1140%2C647&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8238,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/11\/24\/adamstown-nuestro-hogar\/","url_meta":{"origin":7985,"position":1},"title":"Adamstown, our home","author":"binarybea","date":"24\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"De los veinte a\u00f1itos que llevo ya en Irlanda, diecisiete los he pasado viviendo en el mismo barrio: Adamstown, al oeste del condado de Dubl\u00edn. 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