How about you? Have you ever returned to a place of your childhood and it LOOKED the same, but FELT different?
yes I had, multiple times to do this in my life because I was working abroad for decades. But when I came back to Germany where I was born, it still was most of the times the same place with some minor changes, and hey it felt anytime I´m coming back more wrong to be there.
The oppsite was the case when I came back to my working destinations (Cyprus, Sicily, Spain), it still feels good to be there, and its not quite the same like before it has changed in many ways, more construction, better roads, new powerstations, better internet, happy people and not to forget better weather as well.
And that´s why I changed places and live for more than 15 years now in the south of Europe actually in Spain.
From the look of the photos on your blog, you are more or less in the same area where I lived and grew up, 1972-1981-ish (Mostly San Pedro and Estepona). I went to the States for University in 1981... and only came back for visits a few times to my parents who were still there... when my mother died in 2011, it was SO different there I almost didn't recognize anything, other than the mountains and the beach.
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Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comment ;)
yes, thats what I thought too when looking at your pictures.
And your absolutely right in the area of San Pedro and Estepona and Casares where I lived the most of my time in Andalucía has dramaticaly changed over the years with the construction of new buildings and infrastructure.
The biggest changes I ever noticed were in the town where my wife grew up with her grand parents in one of the subburbs of Madrid, there were just a few houses and a church and today its one of the most expensive places in th whole Madrid area with 2 Univerities, schools and more.
The only thing what is still present there like before is the house of one of her uncles which was build up on a solid huge rock, ah and the lake what they had build in that old times.
So, it means you got actually no more ties to the region here, or did you still have some relatives here in the area ?