July 13, 2020

Spanish Road Trip in the Summer of Covid

My children are quickly growing conscious of the fact that ours is not an ordinary family. But at 7 and 10 years of age, it remains […]
May 10, 2018

Global Citizenship: Cultural Integration and Excitation 

It’s only been a short time since my last travel blog entry, but a lot has happened since then, so grab your yerba mate and hold […]
October 31, 2017

Spanish Immigration: Theater of the ultra absurd

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself transported to the center of an impossible circle of stairways in a painting by M.C. Escher. So goes […]
August 5, 2017

Spanish assimilation: Finding our way home

Our integration into Spanish society has continued with many new and notable milestones. Most members of our family (those with natural European citizenship) now have their […]
July 9, 2017

No Holds Barred: Settling down in a Spanish village

Fourteen months ago we embarked on a journey, an ambitious undertaking many years in the making. We liked to think of it as a voyage of […]
December 8, 2016

Viva la diferencia: Spanish Culture Clash

Our sortie into Spanish culture continued this week with all the fearlessness of a tenacious torero, and all the irony of a quarreling windmill. Funny that […]
November 25, 2016

What you never knew about The Shining and German philosophy

In my last travelogue entry, I was marveling over the parallels between life here at the Hotel Catalonia and certain elements in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. […]
October 20, 2016

Relocation Station: International Awareness in the French Pyrenees

Perched high on a southwest facing slope in the French Pyrenees, overlooking the hamlet of Osseja and the valley of Cerdanya, our journey has reached a […]