I knew I was going to get a real holiday treat this winter: I was going to Cáceres, a city of Extremadura, one of Spain’s poorest regions per capita. You see, I’d been itching to go somewhere new in Spain, instead of the usual Andalusia (my first love) and Catalonia (my current fling). I wanted to experience…
Category: Beyond BCN
Travel in other parts of Spain.
Zombies Invade the Sitges Film Festival
Devoured flesh, gouged eyes, torn-up faces, ripped-out jaws. A bunch of undead people infested Sitges on Saturday — moaning around the city, stupidly and relentlessly. The renowned Sitges Film Festival celebrates fantasy and horror films, where that evening they would film the Sitges Zombie Walk. The zombies started swarming the city at daylight. Hordes of them gave normal…
Summer in Marbella, My Future Retirement City
Whew! Someone open a window, please. The temperature today in Barcelona is 31ºC/87ºF. Mix in a little humidity and..well what does it matter…it’s only going to get hotter later this week! While I’ve been on hiatus for awhile, I’ve been busy with summer shenanigans. That includes planning my daughter’s birthday…and going on vacation! I’m really…
Badalona, Not Barcelona
Oh, never-ending summer. I don’t know what the weather is like in your neck of the woods, but it’s been quite the warm autumn here in Barcelona. With temps around 24ºC / 75ºF and the added humidity, it’s still short-sleeve season. In fact, we’re experiencing the hottest fall since 1950 (or so I heard on…
