Coming from sunny Andalusia where summer was in full swing and because it was July, I imagined the rest of Europe to be in summer. I was wrong, I wasn’t prepared for the weather in the Baltics and felt it as soon as I arrived.… Read More »Busing Through the Baltics
With a 6 hour layover in Copenhagen and an easy train ride into the city I decided to go see it. I stored my luggage in a container and set off to explore with the limited time that I had. The first thing that struck… Read More »A Quick Walk Around an Alien World (Copenhagen)
After months of planning and preparation the time finally came for my family to come visit. For my dad and younger sister it was their first time in Europe, for my twin, it was her first time in Spain and for my mom it was… Read More »The Palazzolo’s Come to Spain
Paris like London was one of those places that I never had a huge desire to visit because other cities interested me more. Also like London I felt that I needed to see it before I left Europe and again like London I had a… Read More »Paris! at last
I’m not a big fan of Zoos because I find them extremely sad, unless they’re rehabilitation zoos where the animals will eventually be put back into the wild or zoos where the animals are there because they wouldn’t be able to survive on their own.… Read More »A Visit to the Zoo
When I first came to Europe three years ago, London was never high on my list and it wasn’t even on it for some time. However with the impending realization that I’ll be leaving Europe at the end of this school year, I began to… Read More »A Quick Trip to London
Last weekend I did many things for the first time, we had a puente, long weekend and each day I did something new. Normally if I’m not traveling or trying to save money I end up doing nothing, so this past weekend was a really… Read More »The Weekend of Many First
A visit to Morocco isn’t complete without visiting the blue city of Chefchauoen. Chauoen as the locals call it is located in the north of Morocco and it is situated in the Riff Mountains. Legend has it that it used to be white, but during… Read More »There’s Blue and Green to be found in Morocco
Do as the Romans do? Rome’s empire seems to have had no limit, no matter where you go in Europe you can be assured that there are probably Roman ruins nearby, but I never thought I’d find them in Africa. So when I heard of… Read More »When In….Morocco?
Like the rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid, I imagine Fes and Marrakech have something along the same lines. Depending on who you ask it’s one or the other and while I usually try to stay away from comparing cities I have to say that I… Read More »Fascinating Fes