Abroad in Spain: Travel Blog

I am proud to say that my blog has been nominated as one of the Top 100 International Exchange and Experience Blogs over on the Lexiophiles site.  The voting has opened today and now it’s up to you to help me win.  If you’re a regular reader of this blog and you like the articles that you see here, please help me out by voting for me.

Thank you in advance for your help and support!  Stay tuned for more information in the upcoming days… and please, don’t forget to vote for the Abroad in Spain Travel Blog.  Continue reading this post…

After a little over two months of seeing no activity on this site, my regular readers  have probably been wondering where I’ve been at.  I’ve been here — in Spain — but I’ve been very busy.  Between teaching at the school and giving private English classes I just haven’t had a lot of time to do many other things.

I believe that things are starting to calm down a bit and I’m starting to get a better handle on my hectic schedule.  That’s why (I hope) I will be able to put an end to my two-month hiatus and begin writing new entries starting today.  Continue reading this post…

Are you a webmaster?  Do you like this site?  Now you can have your very own, FREE Abroad in Spain Widget to place on your own site.  You can get the code here.  Continue reading this post…

Writing a blog, for me, is pretty beneficial in terms of keeping me sane.  Especially given the fact that I’m living in Spain instead of my home country of the USA.  Why do I say this?  It’s simple, really: this blog is my “lifeline” to the English language and the USA.  It’s the way I keep in contact with my native language and my native culture. 

Although I love Spain and am very happy living here, I think I’d probably go a little nuts if I couldn’t express my thoughts somewhere in English and generally interact with people from my own culture from time to time.   This blog lets me do that on a large scale from within the tiny city of Burgos where the total “American” population is probably about five.  This blog also lets me meet a lot of interesting people from around the world — another pretty beneficial thing if I do say so myself.  Continue reading this post…

Well, if you’re a regular visitor to Abroad in Spain, you’ll notice that I have completely re-designed the site and also done several upgrades to my hosting package so that things work a little  bit better.  You’ll also notice that now that this new site upgrade is complete, I will be updating my site much more often with new posts, pictures, etc.  Continue reading this post…

Well, before I go any further with this blog, I’d like to write a small post to set out my objectives so that I, and my readers, both know exactly what I hope to accomplish with this webpage. This post is going to serve that purpose. Continue reading this post…