Jerez de la Frontera is my new home and the place I’ll be spending the next 10 months teaching English. It’s a really old city located in southern Spain, not far from the beach. It’s a beautiful city with historic buildings and tree lined roads;… Read More »Jerez de la Frontera
If Lisbon is a hidden gem, Porto is its forgotten brother. Some people may have heard of it because of port wine; but most haven’t. Out of every city I’ve visited Porto is one of my favorites. It’s located in northern Portugal on the Duoro River,… Read More »A Place I’d Never Be Able to Drive Stick, Porto!
This year, I decided to spend my birthday in Portugal with Christine. She went to Madrid to get her ESL certification and teach for the year. I would have loved to have been home and spend the weekend with my friends and sister in Montauk,… Read More »Birthday In Lisbon
After having an amazing summer and doing many things with my friends and family it’s time for me to move on to my next adventure. In a week I’ll be returning to Spain to teach English in a city in the south, called Jerez de… Read More »A New Year a New Place
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