About once a month in the winter and once a week during the 3 other seasons, I receive a question regarding the cost of living in Barcelona, usually in the form of: "What do you think is the minimum someone needs…
The average work day in Spain is negotiating its way between tradition--when no air conditioning existed, the country was poor, and business was 99% local--and the present day, which sees multinational corporations making Spain their home and the technology industry…
Back home, the holidays are Over with a capital O. Come January 2nd, gifts have already been returned, re-gifted, put into use or put away. The new year has been rung in and work resumes uninterrupted. But not here -…
It's Xmas time again, and I am on the second leg of my bi-yearly pilgrimage to the states. I'm in California after a brief visit to my brother's place in Rhode Island, where he forgot me at the airport and…
Editors note: Since it is Xmas time, I've brought back an oldie but goodie for the holidays. Enjoy. It's Navidad time here in Barcelona (aka Christmas or Xmas to us North Americans), and of course that means many, many days…
