It’s been almost a month since I have left Tomelloso and I have been meaning to write something about my experience there. I arrived in September not knowing anybody and not knowing anything about the place the I would live and work in until June.… Read More »Hasta Luego Tomelloso
Last weekend I went to Barcelona and stayed with a friend from University of Delaware (Hannah). Hannah has been there for the last two years and is teaching English. Luckily she was nice enough to let me stay in her place and show me around. Currently,… Read More »Barcelona
Last week I finally had the opportunity to visit the historic and beautiful city of Toledo. There was a group of Hungarian students doing an exchange at my school and one of the activities they had planned was a trip to Toledo; the headmaster knew… Read More »The City of Three Cultures, Toledo
In a country where the double-cheek kiss is a staple for saying hello and goodbye (for girls), you would think it’d be pretty easy and automatic when being introduced to someone and when saying goodbye to someone, but it not always is. Some people like… Read More »The Misadventures of Interacting (Hello & Goodbye) in Spain
This past weekend I went to SOS music festival in Murcia. Murcia is about a 2 and a half hour drive south east of where I am living. Two weeks before the music festival I was drinking with a friend and a couple of his… Read More »SOS 4.8 Music Fesitval
Budapest is a home to a unique and exciting nightlife that began at beginning of the 21st century. For many, Y2K was the end of the world and civilization as we knew it, with thousands bracing for chaos; in Budapest, it was the turning point… Read More »Biligerent Budapest
My last stop of the journey. I was in Budapest from April 3rd to the 7th and could have stayed had I had my suitcases. My first thought upon arriving was, that it looked like a dirty Vienna; It’s hard for any city to match… Read More »A Troubled Past, A Bright Future: Budapest
On my third and final day in Austria I had planned to make it a day of visiting castles, or “castle day”. Iwent to visit Kruezenstein Castle (pictured above) and had plans to see Lichtenstein Castle. Kruezenstein Castle is located a few kilometers from Vienna on… Read More »Castle day!….kind of
Vienna was a city I didn’t really have a strong desire to see, but it was between Hallstatt and Salzburg; it had an awesome looking castle close by that I wanted to see and it was a logical stop on the way to Budapest. I’m… Read More »The City of Music, Vienna
Tucked between mountains, on the precipice of a lake, Hallstatt is considered to be the most beautiful lakeside village and one of the prettiest villages in the world. The whole village is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To arrive, you must take a train, then a… Read More »The World’s Most Beautiful Lakeside Village: Hallstatt, Austria