A Look at How Christmas is Celebrated Around the World
Merry Christmas everyone! As Christmas begins earlier and earlier each year, there’s a longer build-up before the 25th December so thank goodness we’ve finally made it… Wherever you are in the […]
Postcard of the Week: Seville
Before I arrived in Madrid earlier this year to work there for 6 months, I made a list of all the things I was looking forward to doing once I […]
Once Upon a Time in Madrid (Seen through my Instagram)
After 6 months living in Madrid I’ve now been back in London for 4 months and I’m throwing myself back into life here. It’s so easy to get swept up […]
Video Diary of 2013 Travels with The Well-Travelled Postcard
Last year in 2013 I travelled to 3 continents, 11 countries and 17 cities, covering a total of 64,818 km. In that time I collected so much video footage […]
Saying Goodbye to Madrid
The time has come for me to somehow pack up my all my belongings, leave the keys to my flat in Madrid, jump into a taxi and begin the […]
Learning about the Spanish Civil War on a Walking Tour of Madrid
As part of a Modern Languages degree, you study not only the language itself, but also it’s contextual setting, with modules on the history and the literature of that country. […]
Postcard of the Week: Madrid’s Golden Triangle of Art
Art museums are always a great place to pick up postcards, as well as unusual and thoughtful presents. I adore looking through the postcards of the museum’s main artworks […]
Postcard of the Week: San Sebastián, Spain
San Sebastián, a seaside town on the north coast of Spain, is every bit as lovely as the postcard above. That isn’t just clever photography or fortunate lighting – […]
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 […]
Postcard of the Week: Toledo
The UNESCO World Heritage site and medieval city of Toledo, perched high atop a hill in Castile-La Mancha, is only a 30-minute train away from the centre of Madrid […]
