Tapping into travel offers the opportunity to make the whole travel manifestation process fun, and below, I’m going to show you how I’ve done it so you can do it too. First of all, why is this important? Even though I am a believer that you can simply imagine the scene of your travel dreams […]
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The Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to Madrid, Spain
Moving to Madrid, Spain should implicate that there will be challenges along the road, right? It’s not always sunshine and churros con chocolate, especially when you go from a country like the U.S where things tend to get done pretty quick in comparison to Spain where they have sayings like “mañana lo hago” (I’ll do […]
4 Ways Travel Brought Me Out Of My Comfort Zone
Travel undoubtedly will bring you out of your comfort zone in more ways than one, and I think that this is one of the top reasons why a lot of people love to travel, including yours truly. Getting out of you comfort zone while you’re traveling is not always cute, easy, or the pretty quote […]
What I Learned From Living in a Pedestrian Friendly City
To keep it short and concise: living in a pedestrian friendly city allowed me to see life happening before me. A pedestrian friendly city gave me more opportunities to be social, interact with people, and dare I say, even witness how incredibly nice people can be to each other. Growing up in the US, some […]
Top 10 Things to do in Madrid for Free
As one of my favorite youtuber/travel bloggers says in their videos frequently, “If it’s free, it’s for me.” Fun doesn’t always have a price tag attached to it. Before I started to travel more often, I used to think that traveling somewhere meant spending a ton of money not just on flights and lodging, but […]
Another Year, Another Adventure
Hola todos! It is a new year, and with that, I want to first and foremost say to you all, happy new year!! I know, I know, it’s been a minute since I have uploaded something onto the blog but I promise it hasn’t been because I have forgotten about this platform. I have […]
[List 1] – Que dices?? Common Phrases and Words used in Spain
I’ll admit that being a native Spanish speaker myself, I thought that the language would hardly be an issue for me when I moved to Madrid, Spain. However after my first few hours of being a newbie in Madrid, I started to realize big differences between Castellano (Spain Spanish) and my Mexican-American Spanish. Accent […]
A Year After: My Experience Being Home for a Year after Living Abroad
I came back from a year that gave me so much. Technically, on June 15th, I came back to the States after living a year in Madrid, Spain. Since then, I have gone through a year of even more change, growth, struggles, and adjustments to say the least. I want to share a […]
A Beginners Guide to Getting Around Madrid on Public Transportation
My friends, there is no other feeling quite like understanding the metro map, and using it correctly to your advantage when you are visiting a foreign city… For me when I was living in Madrid, this was one of the things that really made me feel comfort. Comfort in knowing my way around the […]
If I Could Redo My Homestay Experience…
From September 2015 to May 2016, I had the opportunity to experience a homestay in Madrid while I was teaching English. Now that I am reflecting back on that experience of coexisting with a family abroad for almost a full year, I can’t help but think of a few things that looking back now, I would […]