I’m an extremely organized person and I try to keep my blog as organized as possible too. However, some weeks I find myself jumping from some topic to another which seems to mirror ramblings of my mind. Let me explain myself. The original idea was to do 3 posts every week: a recipe, a fashion […]
Happy Friday! If you’ve been following the blog lately you’ll now we’ve been in search of Don Quixote visiting the places that appear on Cervantes’ novel. The last stop is Puerto Lapice, another town somewhere in La Mancha. Many episodes of Don Quixote de la Mancha are staged at the Ventas, inns on the roadsides
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Happy Sunday, sweeties! I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Today, we continue our tour in search of Don Quixote. Our next stop is another town “Somwhere in La Mancha…”. Almagro, heart of La Mancha and one of Spain’s most historic towns, where every street tells a story. The first few pictures where taken at
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Roscon de Reyes is a traditional Spanish ring-shaped cake baked for the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season. It is commemorated on January 6 and celebrates the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child. The French have a similar version called Galette des Rois. Italians have the Panettone. It is
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“Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember…” These are the first words of Don Quixote, a book widely considered as being the first modern novel. It is also thought by many as one of the greatest books ever written. This is the story of an old knight driven
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Our next stop in Christmas Around the World is São Paulo, Brazil. This trip was the first and only time I’ve been to South America. It was November 2011 and I went there on a business trip. I couldn’t explore the city as much as I’d have liked to since I had to work. Fortunately,
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In 2006 I was living in Dublin thanks to a Erasmus grant. This was my first long stay far from home. For those of you who don’t know, Erasmus is a famous scholarship granted in Europe to students who want to spend an academic year in another European university. It is a great opportunity to explore different
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Happy Friday guys! I’m not only excited because the weekend is coming but also because I’m officially on holidays (yay!). Plus, I’m having a small pre-Christmas’ Eve celebration at home which will signal the start of the holiday season for me 🙂 But now let’s get down to business. Our next stop in Christmas Around
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From L.A. we are traveling north to our next stop: my dear San Francisco. One of the many beauties of the City by the Bay is the variety and richness of its neighborhoods. You can cross a street and feel like you are in a different city or even a different country -this is especially
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The merriest season of the year is upon us and in order to celebrate it on the blog I’m going to do a series of posts about Christmas in different cities. I’ve spent Christmas (or the weeks around it) abroad several times during my life: California, Sao Paulo, Dublin or Belgium have been some
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