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  • Homeward Bound

    Departures

    I am sitting in Heathrow Airport waiting for my flight home. It’s astonishing how fast the past 3 months have gone. During this trip I visited 25 towns and cities (more or less) across 5 countries, visited countless monuments and museums, and taken thousands of photographs. But the best has been the people who have been part […]

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  • Soggy

    Umbrella

    It’s been raining across the whole Iberian Peninsula since May 6. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been drenched. I’ve now purchased an umbrella and a poncho, which haven’t kept the rain at bay but have kept me from repeating the soaking I had walking to the bus station in Sevilla (and […]

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  • One Day in Sevilla

    One of the perks of being at an immersive language school is the extracurricular activities. Each weekend the school (in concert with other local language schools) arranges an optional excursion. This weekend we went to Seville. Six hours is nowhere near enough time for Seville, but that was the time I had, and what I […]