The other day, for some reason I can’t seem to place where this happened or who told me this (and I am sorry if that person ends up reading this), but someone told me a story, and this is my version… ** One time, a man was exploring a small pueblo on his journey and…
As one final trip for this year (excluding the one I am going to take this afternoon) I went to Budapest. It was oddly the first trip I took this whole time by myself. I was there from Thursday to Monday and I have to say that packing my things, coming to Madrid, and being…
After coming back from Madeira in the beginning of June I had about two weeks in Plasencia before I actually left on the 19th for Budapest. I came back, spent the weekend cleaning out my things, packing, and generally starting to say goodbye to some of the normal things I had been doing for the…
The Friday after my last day of school Jenny and I took a bus to Navalmoral in the morning. We spent the day wandering the streets and wasting time before our blablacar was going to pick us up at 3pm. Navalmoral is a small city/pueblo, with busy pedestrian streets and lots of adorable looking bars,…
So many things have happened in the past two weeks… when I wrote this post I was sitting in the Lisbon airport waiting for my first blablacar to take me to Badajoz. I was having trouble going all the way back to the week before. But then I thought of my Whatsapp and Instagram accounts which have both…
Today is Monday May 26th. I have exactly 1 month left in Spain. I have three days left of school. The past few weeks have been full of exams for the students, which means they have been oddly calm for me. But underneath all of that has been the sinking feeling that this is coming…
The past ten days have been a whirlwind of travel and of a wide variety of it to say the least. The first weekend of May I was in the UK visiting, Verity, a close friend who I met while working at Exit Art, then I was back in Caminomorisco, then in the north of…
Before the week of Semana Santa it felt like both the teachers and students at my school were crawling out of their skin for a vacation. I didn’t realize it because I had been spending weekends in different places but it had been about a month since I’d taken a long trip. On Wednesday April…
Maria invited Samantha and I to go to Cáceres for the weekend with her and one of her cousins, Alejandra (who we will also be traveling with in Cadiz in a few days!). We were hoping to go to a small music festival that was happening that weekend but it had been raining for almost…
El Torno.
Last Friday, Jenny and I woke up around 9 am and started to look for BlaBlaCars. We wanted to break up our weekend and so our idea was to look to see what cars were leaving from Plasencia and see where we could go for a day trip… no longer than a half an hour…
This is a little late but I finally found these photos…when Bar was here, he had to find ways to pass the time while I was at school (on the days that he didn’t come with me). Fortunately, thanks to the amazing open-armed nature of Pilar and Agustin, he ended up making good friends with…
Last Saturday Mercedes and I did a tour of La Vera, another valley that is close by to Plasencia. Mercedes had invited me to stay with her and her boyfriend at his family’s home in Garganta La Olla. We arrived on Friday evening to a dark pueblo of streets without lights and that were definitely…
After months and weeks of waiting for Gabby to come and visit, carnaval finally came and we were heading off to Marruecos! Gabby arrived to Barajas on a Thursday morning, I met her there and it was that strange feeling of so much time having passed and no time at all. We made our way…
In an effort to deal with my emotions…I have made another bean recipe. Please note that the timing and measurements are estimates. You have to watch these little alubias (beans) with love and care and make sure you don’t burn them (which happens when you run out of water in the pot or cook them…
Una Extremena Nueva 