Back in the Classroom…
It's been a year since my last Spanish class, and while I attempted to continue taking classes 2x a week while I was working at an office job here last year, the attempt lasted little more than a month. The…
Category: Daily Life
Daily life in Barcelona, Spain including people, places, routines, oddities and everything I love (and sometimes hate) about living here.
An open love letter to Barcelona
Barcelona, I really hate that you insist upon construction work dragging on every day until what most people consider to be nighttime. For example, it is now 8:30pm and there is some ridiculously loud drilling going on in the flat…
Spanish red tape
One of the most frustrating things about living here are the hurdles (aka red tape) the Spanish bureaucracy forces you to jump through. Spain is world famous for this, and if you have been reading this blog, you will have a taste…
Eight reasons I live in Spain.
In no particular order, here are some things I am appreciating at the moment about living in Spain. 1-Cursing. There is plenty of cursing in everyday speech here in Spain, from classrooms to courthouses. It is part of the…
Silence at last. And amor.
I did it! I finally moved! It felt like nearly a lifetime of waiting considering the relentless noise I had to deal with the past few months at my old place, that, coupled with how akin to WC Fields…