Escaping Madrid ~ Valencia, December 2014.
Madrid is great and all, but 3 straight months in the same city can grind your gears after a while. Luckily, Spaniards love their puentes, and so on the 6th December I was free from all my jobs to run...
View ArticleLife as an Au Pair ~ How I quintupled my income.
I lived off 50euros a week for 6 weeks, and although it got me all my basic necessities, it was rubbish. I’ve held a paid job almost continuously since I was 16, and until now I had no idea just how...
View ArticleHome.
Having felt homesick for quite a while, I was itching to get back to Inglaterra. I booked my flight way back in November, choosing to spend every single day off I had at home. I was concious of the...
View ArticleLife in Madrid ~ The Swing of Things & New Beginnings
Before Christmas the pangs of homesickness made me feel a little lost and pessimistic about life here in Spain’s capital. However, since returning and getting back into the swing of things, I can...
View ArticleInter-railing 2012
Barcelona > Pamplona > Barcelona > Paris > Lille > Frankfurt > Berne > Geneva > Verona > Rome. It was my first backpacking experience, and unsurprisingly it consisted of many...
View ArticleLife in Madrid ~ “How’s your Spanish?”
I came here to Madrid with learning Spanish as my number 1 priority. It was why I decided to become an Au Pair first (rather than teach English) as I was told that this would be the best way to immerse...
View ArticleEscaping Madrid ~ Segovia & Toledo, March 2015.
The wonderful thing about living in Spain has got to be the heaps of public holidays and PUENTES. They are the best, and seeing as I work 7 days a week I try and squeeze everything I can out of them....
View ArticleLife in Madrid ~ Aquí me quedaré.
“Here I will stay” When I first arrived, I was determined to stay with a Spanish family and reach fluency in Spanish after 3 months. Unfortunately (as I have previously written about) life is not so...
View ArticleLife in Madrid ~ Hasta Luego.
I cannot believe that my post-uni gap year has ended and I’m back home in England for the Summer Plenty of travel bloggers have already covered the “how living abroad changes your life/is the best...
View ArticleLife as an Au Pair ~ A very honest guide & review.
My 10 months as an Au Pair have ended, and although overall I’d say it was a positive experience, as with any job it did not come without its nuisances and disappointments. Here is my very honest...
View ArticleLife in Madrid ~ The city that keeps me on my toes.
Well I cannot believe it had been two months since I landed back in Madrid, and I have only just last night unpacked my belongings into my own cosy apartment in Malasaña. I feel like I haven’t stopped...
View ArticleEscaping Madrid ~ Granada 2016
One of my 10 Goals in 10 months was to travel less this year, in order to save up for South America. Nevertheless, I just couldn´t resist a trip to Granada, so before the sweltering heat swamped the...
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