Although I reside in Malasaña, I do a lot of living in Conde Duque. The two barrios may share some of the same street names, but cross San Bernardo to
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Faunia Wildlife Park, Madrid – home of lemurs, prairie dogs, etc
Here’s an interesting wildlife experience in Madrid… I went to Faunia a couple of weeks ago. It was kind of shocking to learn that there are so many
The Brain Drain in Spain 2: Flight to London
If you want to be kind of depressed – and your Spanish is up to it – go read the article published in El País Semanal yesterday entitled
The 4 big things I wish I had known before moving to Madrid
Moving to Madrid sort of happened to me by accident. Like many or most people, I had spent my teenage years with no idea what I was doing
The Running of the Bulls (in Pamplona and elsewhere)
This week Pamplona (a city in the northern region of Navarra) celebrates the festival of San Fermín – the famous running of the bulls that Hemingway immortalized in
Support your local casquería
Are you supporting your local casquería? Maybe you should. A lot of people have probably never spent any time at a casquería – the shop where they sell
Street English: a selection of pickup lines in English and Spanish
A friend of mine has an enormous collection of English textbooks and phrasebooks at home, and when I flip through them, I’m struck with how perfectly useless most
Patones de Arriba – another day trip from Madrid
There’s a lovely little town up in the north of the Madrid community called Patones de Arriba. You can get there by car or (fortunately for us non-car-owning
Austerity Chronicles: The Underground Economy
It’s always funny listening to the BBC report on Spain’s economic problems, because the discussion invariably comes back to the underground economy, and the host of the show
Immigration in Spain – How to Have an Ellis Island Experience
We all know about Ellis Island… The famous funnel that for decades brought immigrants into New York City. No American History class would be complete without the descriptions
