Latest Blog Posts for The Serious and The Frivolous

• My Mongrel Family's Version of an English Christmas
  on Dec 29, 2013
  This year, I've been investigating the myriad of ways people in different countries celebrate Christmas. From the relatively young Japanese custom of ordering KFC on Christmas Eve to the Catalan Shit Log, the results are bizarre and fascinating. Afte...
• A Midweek Excursion to the City of Light
  on Nov 10, 2013
• Visit to Granada
  on Jul 2, 2013
  With both our exams over, we managed to cadge a trip to Granada (known locally as Graná) by staying with the parents of my family friend. I'd just met them once before, in Madrid, but they invited me and my boyfriend then to come and stay with them.
• Marrakech - A Journey to the Red City
  on May 16, 2013
  I was feeling a little restless in Valencia recently; it rained for a few days solid and I was obviously outraged. The chance of a spontaneous trip to Marrakech came at just the right time. As I was the only one of our group without copious amounts o...
• The Verb 'To Be' In Different Languages
  on Apr 10, 2013
  Arguably the most essential if not important verb in the English language, the variations of the verb 'to be' in other languages can indicate how the speakers think; in other words, how foreigners value and define existence or 'being'. Whether it's l...
• Why Britain Sucks at Learning Languages
  on Apr 6, 2013
  Google 'British teenagers' as I just did, and you may find that they 'lead the world in their sexual activity' and that the girls are the 'biggest binge drinkers in Europe'. As a Brit, I wouldn't dispute any of that. But a recent survey has actually...
• Things Spain Could Improve
  on Apr 2, 2013
  I love Spain. I would love to live here (oh wait...I DO). I took the above picture while I was sitting in my local park, which is in an old riverbed, doing some work by the water in a sundress. It was maybe a couple degrees warmer than England right...
• Fallas - Valencia's Biggest Festival
  on Mar 22, 2013
  Valencia's biggest fiesta is one of the first things Valencians will gush to you about when they realise you're not a native. The word falla is Valencian for torch, which comes from the Latin fax. Each town in Valencia has its own falla and in the ci...
• The Fallas Themselves
  on Mar 22, 2013
  Click here to see my experiences of Fallas!
• Sagunto: A Day Trip in Arse
  on Mar 10, 2013
  This week, I decided the best way to spend my Saturday would be to make my friends get up at an ungodly hour (8 am! In the morning!) and go look at some Roman ruins with me. We set off on our merry way in kind of a hurry because it's impossible to be...

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