European Stereotypes Revisited – update from a small peninsula

Hey, y’all! Greetings from the peninsula. It’s a hot weekend here in Iberia. And rather than go out and get sunburned, I figured I’d revisit an old theme

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Cannabis in Barcelona – weed clubs and getting high in a “legal grey area”

Just down the street from my flat, there’s a brown door. It’s between a Pakistani barber shop and a bike rental place. The door has a big black

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Spanish seafood vocabulary: pescado, marisco and much more

Hey y’all! Let’s do some Spanish seafood vocabulary. The other day I wrote a little article about my love for Spanish cuisine. And I described the rather disorienting

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Finally, it’s almost Holy Week

One of the great things about Spanish life is the absurd number of public holidays. But this year, due to the complex calculations involved in determining when Ash

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Another New Article on Vaya Madrid

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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Are Europeans More Civilized than Americans?

Zio Enzo is possibly not the uncle of anyone I know. In any case, he’s a toothless 70-something Italian man who everybody is calling Uncle. He’s wearing a

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What do the Spanish think about foreign people?

I don’t know how it happens… But sometimes (well, maybe often would be a better word) Spanish people read what I’ve written here on this blog and get

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From Málaga to Málagon: Corruption in the Spanish Government

Spain is different! And there’s no better proof than the recent corruption scandals that have hit the government and the monarchy. Many somewhat-naive expats from the Anglosphere, upon

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Holy Week Procession, Mérida, 2013

Bearing crosses… Don’t worry, they’re hollow and don’t weigh much Pointy hat guy–Capriota style Candles and image of the Virgin Click to make the photos bigger. A procession

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