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Everything You Need to Know about Teaching English in Spain with BEDA

By on May 16, 2013 in auxiliares, Europe, guest, How to, Learning Spanish, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain, Teaching English

I began this blog right before I moved to Spain in 2010 to teach English for two years. Consequently, I receive many queries, tweets, emails and carrier pigeons asking me how I did it. Now I went through the auxiliares de conversación program through the Spanish Ministry of Education, thought there are several other routes [...]

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Recortadores: A Nonviolent Alternative to Bullfighting in Spain

By on April 23, 2013 in Adventures, Destinations, Europe, Spain

The yellow sand was drenched in blood as the sun began to set over the red bull ring in southern Spain. The famous May feria in Córdoba had ushered in the traditional wave of bullfights every afternoon, and my friends and I decided to join in. Several years earlier I witnessed my first bullfight upon [...]

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If You Go Anywhere in May, Go to Córdoba, Spain

By on April 19, 2013 in Adventures, Destinations, Europe, Spain, Wine

From 2010 to 2011, I was lucky enough to call Córdoba, Spain home. Nestled between Sevilla and Granada, two rockstar Spanish cities in the south, Córdoba often gets overlooked on traditional itineraries. Many times, tour buses just stop there for a day trip to visit the famous Mezquita mosque-cathedral if at all. But believe me, [...]

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5 Things No One Tells You about Moving Abroad

By on March 27, 2013 in Adventures, Confessions, Get Inspired, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain, This will probably get me hate mail

If moving abroad were easy, everyone would be doing it, right? With only about 35% of the American populace holding passports, I think it’s safe to say that most of our knowledge of the big wide world comes from the idiot box and the internet, not from firsthand experience. Personally, I cannot STAND it when [...]

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Stop Overlooking La Rioja, Spain!

By on March 22, 2013 in Destinations, Europe, Food, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Pinchos, Spain

My oh my, it’s been a while since I’ve written about my favorite region in Spain: La Rioja! Never heard of it? It’s ok, most people haven’t. By chance you have, it’s most likely from the red wine the region is world famous for or the the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage that cuts across [...]

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The Waiting Game: How Not to Lose Your Mind Before a Trip

By on March 21, 2013 in Adventures, auxiliares, Confessions, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain, Teaching English

Maybe I am borderline ADD, but for me there is nothing worse than waiting around for something. Waiting for a ride somewhere; waiting for a friend to show up for a coffee date, waiting for the next Game of Thrones season (10 days woot woot!) or waiting on a trip or big move abroad sometime [...]

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The Expat Files: Molly in Granada

By on March 9, 2013 in Destinations, Europe, Learning Spanish, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain, The Expat Files

This week’s Expat Files takes us down to sunny, beautiful southern Spain and to one of my favorite cities, Granada. I don’t know about you guys, but I am in dire need of some sunshine, spring, and charm, all of which Granada oozes by the bucketload. Molly has been an expat in Spain for 15 [...]

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5 Things You Need To Know When Visiting the Basque Country

By on March 1, 2013 in Destinations, guest, Spain

One of my favorite regions in Spain is the Basque Country. Seriously beautiful and seriously misrepresented, I feel like this tiny, unique area is often overlooked and skipped on classic Spain itineraries. People are put off by the distance or the fact that it’s just so different from the rest of Spain, being that they [...]

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Top Five Reasons You Should Visit Jaén, Spain

By on February 24, 2013 in Destinations, Europe, guest, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain

While I am away traveling in Turkey this week, I have lined up some guest posts by some of my favorite bloggers, posts about places I hope to make it to one day. This post is from Trevor, a long-time internet buddy and writer over at A Texan in Spain. Trevor is teaching English down [...]

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5 Things No One Tells You about Falling in Love Abroad

By on February 18, 2013 in Confessions, Europe, guest, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain

I just discovered Julia’s blog last week when she left me a novel of a comment on my Breaking Up to Travel post. A girl after my own heart, not only has she traveled and lived all around the world at a young age and writing about it on her blog, Nowhere to Go but [...]

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Mallorca: Spain’s Most Underrated Island

By on February 17, 2013 in Blogger, Destinations, Europe, guest, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain

While I am in Turkey, I have been lucky enough to line up some fabulous guest posts from a handful of my favorite bloggers. Ashely blogs over at Ashley Abroad, currently taking on expat life as an au pair in France. A girl after my own heart, Ashley has traveled and lived all over the [...]

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The Expat Files: Zach in Valencia

By on February 15, 2013 in Destinations, Europe, guest, Learning Spanish, Living in Spain, Moving to Spain, Spain, The Expat Files

I have been a long-time reader of Zach’s blog, Not Hemingway’s Spain, as well as being a big believe of what it stood for. There is so much more to Spain that what Hemingway wrote about, i.e. the running of the bulls in Pamplona and visiting places like Ronda. If you like reading profound, thought-provoking [...]

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