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“I’ll meet you at the plaza.”
If you live in Spain, you must have heard these words a million times.
The Spanish word plaza, which has been used in English since the 1830s, comes from the Latin word platea (meaning …
Moving to another country can be incredibly exciting. Everything new can be quite intoxicating. You feel fully alive, almost like a child again. An adventurer or perhaps an explorer (although we are far from a Robinson Crusoe in today’s …
Wine is mostly considered a man’s domain, but that is not always the case – at least not when it comes to port. This sweet wine named after the city of Porto is still drunk worldwide and is a …
Every month, a small group of art- and history buffs meet in an esteemed library in Ronda, Andalucía to hear a Spanish philosopher talk about anything between heaven and earth. It can be a book, a piece of music, …
Everyone in Spain has probably seen the lottery kiosks with the sign ONCE in capital letters. Many know these are run by the Spanish National Organization for the Blind or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE). But what most …
Seguramente todo el que vive en España ha visto los kioscos de lotería con el cartel ONCE en mayúsculas. Muchos saben que están gestionados por la Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE). Pero lo que la mayoría de gente no …
They say that when it rains, it pours, and that can certainly apply to Spain. After several years of intense drought, all the precipitation we should have had during the last 12 months came in a single …
In Andalucía, we have almost unlimited possibilities to participate in wine tastings – in vineyards, bodegas, or even wine shops. One learns to distinguish between young and well-aged wine, understand the concept of terroir, know whether the wine comes from …
It is not only the Spanish real estate market that was competitive this summer. It also applies to every square meter of sandy beach on Costa del Sol and other parts of the Spanish coastline. Unlike the real estate market, …
You see them everywhere. Most Spanish shopping streets are filled with tacky souvenir stores. They have walls covered with fans, miles of Spanish-inspired ceramics, figurines of bullfighters and Flamenco dancers, trays with Alhambra patterns, coffee cups and eyeglass cases with …