Turning 25 & My Travel Wishlist Before 30
I love having a July birthday. It’s normally lovely weather, everyone’s in an excellent mood because exams have finished or summer holidays are looming, and having a summer birthday […]
Postcard of the Week: the Sorolla Art Museum in Madrid
One thing Madrid does have in abundance is art. It has three world-class art museums, the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, containing some of the world’s best-known […]
Exploring the real, authentic, #NoFilter Madrid
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this blog post ‘Postcard of the Week: New York City (and musings on photo-editing and appreciating the here and now)‘ which should have […]
Postcard of the Week: Segovia
Segovia is just 30 minutes away from Madrid on a high-speed train, making it a perfect daytrip out of the city, and as it sits beyond the Sierra the […]
Postcard of the Week: El Rastro, Madrid’s famous Sunday market
[Written on 6th April] Today is Sunday and Madrid is quickly growing on me. I’m sat in the sun having lunch in Plaza de Tirso de Molina. Spring is well […]
The Hammam Al Ándalus – a Little Bit of Andalucía in Madrid
Three years ago, when I was living in Córdoba in the south of Spain as a student, I developed a small obsession with the Arabic Baths […]
Valencia: to the seaside!
I arrived in Madrid almost three months ago, but since then I’ve actually done more travelling outside of Spain than in it. Two weekends ago this changed as I […]
Postcard of the Week: Valencia
The weekend before Easter my uni friend Sarah came to visit me in Madrid and after a few days of sightseeing there we headed on the […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 