It's weird how small the world can be. As I said before, I picked a great time to be in Barcelona because I know a lot of people passing through. Like Ian, who's an ex-coworker of my friend Emily and who I've met a few...
While renting a room in an AirBNB in Barcelona, my hosts taught me how to make tortilla de patatas (or, tortilla española, or Spanish Tortilla). Here is how we made them and a story of how the recipe came together for us...
I fell in love with the whimsical architecture of Antoni Gaudí while spending a month living in Barcelona, Spain. I visited Casa Mila (La Pedrera) and Casa Batllo. I took a Guadi walking tour. I visited his unfinished masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia. And I spend...
So, you know how I said I was sick some weeks back? Well, even after going to the hospital in Madrid, even after taking two different cough medicines, even after weeks of suffering, I was still not feeling better and my cough just wasn't going...
Over last weekend my hosts went out of town. Now, let me tell you, it's been a long time since I've had a place, or a weekend entirely to myself… So I had a thrilling weekend of doing nothing. I did such exciting things as watching TV (including...
One great thing about staying in Barcelona for a month is that my time here happens to coincide with a lot of other people's trips here. Another good thing about staying a month in Barcelona is that I get to see a lot of Gaudi....
My first three days in Barcelona involved getting situated in my new place: both apartment-wise and city-wise. On the night I "moved in" I had a wonderful dinner with my roommates/hosts, who own the apartment and are renting out their spare room to me, of...
In the months before I left on this 'round the world journey, when I was questioning what it was that I really wanted, when I was having doubts and second thoughts, I recited this little mantra I'd made up for myself:...
OK…so we did nothing in Valencia. Nothing. You can't even count La Tomatina, because that was in Bunol. And our eating was anything but authentic. But sometimes a break from everything is just needed. So why ruin the streak on the last night? Outside of Oktoberfest...