Bilbao and Getxo – Spanishness and Basque cheesecake in the frozen North

The train from Barcelona to Bilbao takes seven hours. It’s not cheaper than flying, exactly, but I’m on a slow travel kick these days, and anyway, trains have

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Prenatal Care in Spain – the health system and baby bureaucracy

My wife Morena texted me from a hotel in Madrid. She was down there for just one night, applying for a tourist visa at the Canadian embassy. The

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Spain, Gibraltar, and the UK – new podcast episode!

Hey hey! I don’t know if the average Spain-obsessed American has really heard of Gibraltar. It’s not a huge topic of conversation in most parts of Spain. (Maybe

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Spain to Go, now on Substack

Hey hey! Just a quick update over here. I haven’t written anything new on this blog the last couple of weeks, but I have been busy. In fact,

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PSOE Corruption, Isak Andic, and the World Cup (Random thoughts #18)

I really don’t want to write another article about Pedro Sánchez. In fact, I’ve been avoiding Spanish news for most of the week, because I don’t want to

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Paris, France – a short walk around the City of Light

Believe it or not, I was once young. And as a young man, I dreamed of coming to Europe. It sounded – Europe did – like a much

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How to Find Trusted Professionals in Madrid (the Honest Way)

Have you ever paid someone you found online, watched them disappear after a shoddy job, and thought – how did I not see that coming?  Or asked a Facebook

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Sober in Spain – tips, practicalities, and deep thoughts on sobriety

It’s been three years since I quit drinking. Three years, three and a half months. One thousand, one hundred and seventy-four days of sobriety. At the time I

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Top 7 reasons you should NEVER move to Spain – watch out!

Any country has pros and cons. I recently saw an article called “Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Never Move to Spain”. It was over on a blog

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Is Spain a poor country? GDP in the US vs Europe

Here’s a bit of data that always blows my mind… Even the poorest of US states are richer than most European countries. We’re talking “richer” in GDP per

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