Dec 2, 2021 | Europe, Spain
When I decided to go see the volcano Cumbre Vieja in eruption, in La Palma, the cheapest way to get there was through Tenerife. When I visited my friend Jose between Zaragoza and Cuenca, we were talking about the highest places in the world where we had already been...
Nov 25, 2021 | Europe, Spain
I don’t usually watch the news, so the first time I heard about the volcano at La Palma was two or three weeks after the eruption started, due to the news referring to “volcano negacionists”. At the beginning of October I went to visit my friend José...
Oct 25, 2021 | Europe, Spain
Last stop of my week in Spain, Cuenca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city José calls home. When José first told me about Cuenca, six years ago, still in Mexico, I imagined a small village, on top of a hill, and that was how it was, many many years ago. Today it is...
Oct 20, 2021 | Europe, Spain
José lives in Zaragoza but says he is from Cuenca, where he lived from the age of 15 to 18 and where his mother lives. So, when I decided that I was going to visit him in the capital of Aragon, we decided that we would finish this tour in Cuenca. But between Zaragoza...
Oct 16, 2021 | Europe, Spain
Usually I’m the person who, when traveling, organizes and plans everything. So, from time to time, it feels really good to let be guided! After three days in Zaragoza, always very well accompanied by my friend José, he took me on a day trip to see Tarazona and...
Oct 13, 2021 | Europe, Spain, Travel Itineraries
For the past six years that I was to visit Zaragoza, as my great friend and travel companion in southern Mexico and Guatemala, José, lives there. Finally, our calendars lined up and I was able to spend three days exploring Zaragoza and the rest of the week in other...
Jul 30, 2020 | Europe, Spain, Travel Itineraries
Three years ago my mother walked the Portuguese Way of Santiago, from Porto, and since then she has wanted to do one Jacob’s Way again. There are many Ways, the most famous being the French one, partly because almost all the Ways coming from the south of Spain...
Jul 18, 2020 | Europe, Spain
I have been “missing” … In the last month I have not posted anything because I finally managed to return from Mexico, after more than three months closed at home without Iberia offering me a solution to return to Portugal. After a long flight to...
Feb 19, 2020 | Barcelona, Europe, Spain
The first time I went to Barcelona was in 2011, in my first year of architecture. At the time, I visited Gaudí’s best-known works: The Sagrada Familia, in eternal construction, the wonderful Park Güell (which meanwhile has an entrance fee if you go there between...
Dec 22, 2018 | Europe, Madrid, Spain
Since my friend Adriana told me about el Matadero cultural center, in an old slaughterhouse at one end of Madrid Rio Park, that I wanted to go there. It was also on this day that I learned that I should not cross the city for a walk shorter than the time spent in...
Apr 23, 2018 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Madrid, Spain
Adriana is 23 years old and has been studying in Madrid for 10 months. She didn’t go to Madrid to study because she had a special appeal to the city, since she didn’t even know it well, but because she found a master’s program that she found...
Mar 28, 2017 | Andalucia, Europe, Spain
Last summer I went on a one-month trip with Mexican, French and German friends through Spain, Portugal and France. Jorge and I arrived in Cordoba the day before the others, since we wanted to see the city with time. We drove from Lisbon, with a brief stop in Mérida to...
