Sobriety, salespeople, and Introvert Hell in Dublin, Ireland

All day the payroll salespeople have been arriving. Both payroll people and their partners are greeted enthusiastically when they reach the hotel, then whisked off into a conference

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Mount Tibidabo, Barcelona: My best travel experience?

What is best? There’s a Zen proverb in which a monk visits a butcher’s shop.  He asks the butcher for his best piece of meat.  “Everything in my

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The shocking secret about my 2017 plans – Revealed!

2016 was quite a year. On the personal side, not the best… but far from being the worst. Actually, on several occasions, it made me think, “This is

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Warning: You Probably DON’T Want to be a Digital Nomad

Ahh, the life of a digital nomad. You wake up late, and are happy to find yourself in Thailand, just a short walk from the beach. You pour

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Adventures in the UK: Mr Chorizo goes to London

How did I manage to live in Europe for more than a decade without visiting the UK? Good question. Being dead broke and illegal for most of that

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The 5 big questions I’ve been asking myself since becoming a professional blogger

Writing, as Molière said, is like prostitution. First you do it for love, then for a few close friends, and then for money. Molière, of course, wasn’t on

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Serbs and Croats–an eye-opening journey to the Balkans

Quick, who’s your favorite Croatian painter? Yeah, that’s what I thought. I chose Zagreb as part of my first trip to Eastern Europe because it just seemed like

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Mr Chorizo goes to Amsterdam – adventures in Europe’s frozen north

Well, I’m back from Amsterdam! Didn’t even notice I was gone? Ha! That’s what happens when you’re at the bottom of the blogosphere. You can go on vacation

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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

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