When I reflect back on life in Madrid my memories come back to me in swirls of color – riding the metro to meet friends for tapas and cerveza, exploring the city on foot, working on this blog in cafes
In today's Women Who Travel Solo, former expat Michelle Philippon returns to Spain for the first time to celebrate her 30th birthday and shares stories from Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. How did you get started traveling? When I was a kid, I traveled
If spending the year 2015 living in the rainforest of Costa Rica has taught me one thing about myself, it's that I am a city girl at heart. (Though I can assure you the complete list of lessons I've learned
As my life has taken me away from the bustling streets of Madrid to the remote rainforest of Costa Rica, I’ve come to realize just what an amazing continent Europe is and how easy it is to explore by rail.
During my last month in Madrid I discovered what would become one of my favorite places in the city – Parque Europa. I learned about this park, which contains replicas of 18 of Europe’s most iconic monuments, from my first and
A sea of red and yellow stretches as far as my eyes can see as throngs of Spaniards and aficiondos alike line the long sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s main thoroughfare. We quietly stand under the hot sun waving our
How quickly time passes. I can’t believe that in a month from today I’ll be leaving Madrid. That's right, I only have one more month in Madrid! I’ve been in Spain a little more than nine months now teaching English. Some
It’s beginning to look a lot like the Christmas in Madrid. Well, actually, it began to look a lot like Christmas Dec.1 when the annual Christmas lights in Madrid were illuminated. Ornate lights depicting holiday packages, snow globes, winter scenes and city
In the dim light of Restaurant Botín, owner Carlos González hands me a copy of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I turn to the final page and read. “We lunched upstairs at Botín’s," he wrote. "It is one of the
I live on Calle Fuencarral, a street in the center of Madrid, in a shared flat located between Michael Kors and a shoe shop, in room with a balcony that overlooks the street. When I first came to the city,