Ughhh! I was in Logrono a week ago and I knew I couldn’t stay. What was presented as a lovely city on paper turned out to be dirty, noisy and ugly. So I left and went to Bilbao. A lovely city! I took another week of Spanish at the Hemmingway institute. I somehow managed to…

The weather here is crisp and clean. It is perfect Fall weather. What I mean by chilly is that the people living here lack a certain kind of welcoming warmth. This is not to imply they are rude, exactly the opposite. It is that there is a distance that I can feel. I think it…

Here in Bilbao (bill-Bah-oh) very little English is spoken. There are two official languages here, Spanish first and Basque second. The basque language is the kind of language where you will see an lkz together in a row. And, as when I was in Italy, no one can understand what I am saying in my…

Everything here in Bilbao is amazing. Except, I needed toilet paper and I accidentally bought paper towels. So some things are not going as smoothly as they ordinarily would.

Logrono turned into a bit of a disaster. The locks on my apartment didn’t work. I was locked out with all my things inside for 1 1/2 hour. The battle with Airbnb is still ongoing. I checked into a hotel and took a walk around a grimy, noisy center city. I was talking to myself…