The Best Spots To Visit In Corfu, Greece

Choosing Corfu over popular Greek destinations caters to those seeking relaxing beach days. Key attractions include the Monastery of Panagia Vlacherna, Anemomilos Windmill, Corfu Pirate Ship Black Rose, Achilleion Palace, and Palaiokastritsa. English-speaking tourists find travel easy and enjoyable.

My Experience At An Italian Wedding Reception

I entered new travel territory recently and I think it was one of the dreamiest travel experiences I have had: Traveling for my friend’s destination wedding. In fairness, it was a destination to pretty much everyone at the wedding but not the bride and groom themselves. They live in Tuscany, and that is where the wedding was. Specifically, the wedding […]

TARDIS Chasing Around The World

I know I am a nerd. Specifically, a SciFi nerd. I have had many nerdy moments throughout the years but, by far, my nerdiest moment to date came when I accidentally went TARDIS chasing. A TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) is a specific reference to a decades-old British television series called Doctor Who. This series is about a […]

Travel Companies for Young Foreigners in Madrid, Spain

When you are a foreigner in a new country, you want to take advantage of travel opportunities. Whether it be opportunities to travel around different parts of your new country or to leave it and see the beauty of neighboring countries.  But if you do not consider yourself to be a good travel planner, this can be difficult to organize […]

The Windmills of Zaanse Schans

The Site In 2019, I took a day trip from Amsterdam to Zaanse Schans. It cost me $34 to see this historic collection of windmills plus three other cities (Marken, Volendam, and Edam) through a private tour company. Zaanse Schans could best be described as an open air museum. In some sense, it is also like a living history museum. […]

Visit the Royal Palace in Madrid

How to Visit The Royal Palace (Palacio Real de Madrid) is open to the public on Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and on Sundays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. You can expect to pay somewhere between 5 and 13 euros to enter, or more if you want a private guide, which can run between 13 […]

The Cost to Get a Student Visa for Spain

There are actually a multitude of reasons you may need a student visa for Spain, other than just the typical undergraduate student studying abroad. There are cheap graduate programs for Americans in Spain. There are language schools for students of any age to learn any level of Spanish. And there is a position called an auxiliar de conversacion, or language assistant […]

Christmas Markets In Madrid

One thing I have learned spending the early Christmas season in Madrid is that Christmas Markets in Madrid are much more impressive to Americans than they are to Europeans. I am part of an Erasmus club, where I have met students studying in Spain who are from Italy, France, the UK, Austria, and Germany. I have been told from these […]

My Experience As An Auxiliar de Conversación in Madrid, Spain

What is an auxiliar de conversación? An auxiliar de conversación is a language assistant at a public school in Spain. Most language assistants help with either English or French courses offered at a public school. Their duty is not to be a teacher, but to assist the teachers for those language courses. Since Spain has bilingual schools, some auxiliares de […]