COVID-19 in Seville: Scenes from a lockdown lifted
Fifty days. Fifty days in my home, stealing quick trips to the garbage bins and the supermarket. Fifty days balancing a full-time job and two kids, plus a husband I…
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Filing Your Taxes as an Expat in Spain
If life abroad weren’t complicated enough, filing taxes from abroad becomes even more complicated. As he drove me to the airport in 2007 for a year in Spain, my dad…
Lost and Found in Spain: Susan Solomont talks her book about being an ambassador’s wife abroad
Serendipity. A random occurrence of events that happens casually or unexpectedly. Not that my run-ins with Spanish bureaucrats have been serendipitous, but as I looked back on 12 years of…
Lavender fields in Spain: the Brihuega Festival de la Lavanda and what you need to know
You don't need to travel from Madrid to Provence to see lavender fields in bloom this summer. Brihuega, a blip of a village in the Guadalajara province, has come to produce…
Parenting in Spain: the differences between raising children in Spain and the USA
Updated in May 2026, as the child mentioned below approached double digits. The 48 hours I spent in the hospital post-birth were a bit of a blur. Between doctors and…
GPSMyCity: Take your travel guides anywhere!
Like any traveler, I have pet peeves about tripping, from tipping to sipping to the fact that my SBB Swiss train app for trains in Switzerland always freezes when a…