I have been reading Cats blog, Sunshine and Siestas for a long time now. Now that I am in La Rioja in the north, sometimes I get twinges of homesickness for life back in Andalucía, where I was living...
After M and I said goodbye to filthy hot Cairo in April, we hopped on an overnight train down to Luxor in the south, an adventure all on its own. Luxor is the place to be in Egypt, since it is where ...
Exactly one month ago I was in Paris for a week with one of my best friends from college. And itll probably be another month before I get full detailed posts up about my adventures in the City of Lig...
The other day C and I went for pinchos on Laurel in Logroño. I know, I know, what a surprise. For some reason I was craving meat. After getting sick in Egypt and getting food poisoning, I was finally...
Yeah, so its Saturday and I am just posting this. Forgive me! I had such a long, stressful week I crashed last night like a 5 year old after a day at Disneyland. 4 years ago I had an epic spring brea...
Kaley at the Lago de Sanabria Ok, get excited guys! I am starting (yet another) new project on my blog! The Expat Files. So, my thinking is that Spain is a diverse and rich country in terms of its hi...
Last Friday was a bright and sunny day here in Logroño, so my friend C and I decided to break with tradition and go out for pinchos for lunch instead of dinner. After grabbing some of our go-to pinch...
This is what it should have looked like SourceAfter spending a long hot morning riding camels in the sun around the pyramids in Giza, we decided to check out some of the lesser known tourist sites ou...
In January 2008 in the middle of my whirlwind Euro packing trip, I crossed over the Italian Alps into Austria for the first time. For not being a skier, I am utterly obsessed with big mountains, whic...
The past month and a half has been so crazy! My life here in Logroño is finally getting back to normal, only to be thrown all back up in the air in the next few weeks. So where do I even begin? One o...
I always pass by a fancy, modern looking bar on Laurel called D.O. Laurel. Being smack in the middle of wine country, I wasnt surprised to find out that the bar was named after the Spanish D.O. meani...
Deep into my euro backpacking trip in the winter of 2007-2008, I found myself on an evening train from Vienna to Budapest. Getting off the train late at night was an experience in and of itself, and ...
There has been a marvelous trend going around the blogging world this past week, sparked by this post by Jess Constable on her blog, Make Under My Life. It led to a twitter conversation about the dif...
Giza, Giza, Giza. Where do I even begin? Ok, ever since I was a little girl, reading my Eyewitness picture books about ancient Egypt, it has been my dream to visit the great pyramids. In my head I al...
From 2007 to 2008, I was studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain. For the first week of Semana Santa, I decided to head up north to Belgium and the Netherlands to meet up with a Dutch friend from home. P...
Whats the most famous pincho in Spain? Probably tortilla de patata (Spanish potato omelette). You can find this in basically every bar and its a staple in the Spanish diet. For example, when some of ...
As we speak, I am in Paris on holiday. This is my third trip here, and I am really hoping we are going to finally hit it off. Paris and I have not gotten along together in the past. My last trip here...
They say that New York is the city that never sleeps. Whoever said that clearly has never been to Egypt because Cairo is basically NYC on steroids. Walking around Cairo can be overwhelming, to say th...
Cairo in one word: crazy. Completely and utterly chaotic, noisy, hot, uncontrolled, polluted, disorganized, dirty and so, so vibrant, colorful and above all: alive. I was completely unprepared for th...
In 2008 I was backpacking around Europe, and my final stop was Prague. I was so excited to visit there, I spent almost a week in the Czech Republic, taking in all the sights and freezing my ass off. ...
One of my favorite go-to pinchos in Logroño has to be las zapatillas (literally "slippers" in Spanish). Whenever I want a good old-fashioned, traditional, no way to mess it up pincho, I head ...
In the fall of 2007 I was studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain. A group of us decided to head to Marrakech, Morocco for a quick weekend trip. This was one of my first trips I ever made, and let me tel...
Sorry I have disappeared from my blog for the past week. I am on holiday from Spain and decided to take a trip over to Egypt. Luckily one of my best friends from college decided to join me on this ad...
In the summer of 2009, I was living the dream, getting to live in Europe while researching for my senior thesis. On my way over from the States, I decided to stop off in the UK and visit some of the ...
Me and the Easter bunnyRight now Semana Santa or Holy Week is in full swing in Spain. Or it would be if it wasnt raining like crazy. As I am writing this I can hear the crowds of people outside my ap...
This weekend I experienced a feeling of simple pure joy, kinda like this little guy. It didnt come from finding an fabulous new pair of shoes (though I did buy yellow pants, which was a pretty moment...
This weeks pincho of the week has to be one of my favorite dishes in Spain: cochinillo, aka baby suckling pig. Doesnt that just sound delicious? Not really, but trust me, its mouthwatering good. Now ...
The summer of 2009 was one of the best summers of my life. I had one a grant at my university to spend the summer researching at the National Library in Madrid in preparation for my senior thesis. On...
Over the past year I think I have hinted here and there about why I chose to live in Logroño. Of all the cities on the Iberian Peninsula, why on earth did I pick the one that nobody has ever heard fr...
The theme of this weeks Pincho of the Week is quail eggs, yum yum. I am going to be perfectly honest here, I dont think I have ever eaten quail eggs before coming to Logroño. Quails, yes, but their e...
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