Well, the hugging and learning continues over on ¡Vaya Madrid! Check out my new piece, which (of course) I enjoyed writing quite a bit. This new article is
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The Austerity Chronicles: Week two of the street sweepers’ strike
Well, folks… Maybe Madrid really is going downhill. The street sweepers are on strike–they have been for almost two weeks at the time of this writing–and walking anywhere
Is Madrid going downhill?
Well, it’s over here in Madrid. (Sorry, everyone…) Recently, El País has announced that Madrid is in a downhill slide. They say that the city is not a
Conde Duque is Madrid’s next big neighborhood
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
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: Frases Para Ligar en Inglés
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
