{"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":9688,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/ventanas-al-mundo\/","url_meta":{"origin":7985,"position":0},"title":"Windows to the world","author":"binarybea","date":"14\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Esta semana o\u00ed un comentario en la radio que me pareci\u00f3 curioso: dec\u00edan algo as\u00ed como que muchos j\u00f3venes de hoy en d\u00eda consideran que se puede saber m\u00e1s de c\u00f3mo es realmente una persona por los libros que posee que por su perfil en redes sociales. \u00bfT\u00fa qu\u00e9 opinas?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/category\/diario-journal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9859,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/sesgos-instintivos-transmitir\/","url_meta":{"origin":7985,"position":1},"title":"Instinctual Biases: Transmitting","author":"binarybea","date":"26\/10\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Completamos hoy el recorrido por los tres sesgos instintivos de Awareness to Action (Conciencia en Acci\u00f3n) que empezamos hace dos semanas y continuamos la semana pasada (si no sabes de lo que hablo, te aconsejo que empieces esta serie de art\u00edculos por el principio, leyendo aqu\u00ed, aqu\u00ed y aqu\u00ed). 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