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Who doesn’t love a seaside ambience? The tang of salt on the air, the cries of seagulls, and sailboats rocking at their moorings… And in Spain, where seaside locations so often come with plentiful sunshine, sandy beaches, warm days, and sea breezes, they can be especially appealing. Here are five of my favorite seaside towns in Spain...
Living part-time in Europe can be the best of both worlds: You can experience life there like a local…but without the responsibilities (like getting residence visas) of full-time life. And Spain offers some of the best part-time living in Europe…
Lots of Europhiles dream of taking six months or a year to explore Europe…traveling from country to country…staying put for a while (maybe even renting an apartment or villa for a month or two) and getting to know a region…then moving on to the next enticing destination….
Spain has long been a vacation and second-home destination for Europeans. With its many seaside locations, relatively low cost of living, and plentiful sunshine, it makes a wonderful place to retire or to live part-time...
Nowhere but in Spain does simply clapping my hands give me performance anxiety.That's because in Spain, more than any place else I know, clapping to music is an art. You notice it right away when you listen to flamenco or other traditional Spanish music...
Some time ago, driving to Cancún from the Gulf of Mexico, I stayed overnight in Valladolid. This charming Mexican town is almost exactly midway between Mérida, on the Gulf side of the Yucatán Peninsula, and Cancún. Tranquil Valladolid always reminds me of what the Yucatán must have been like decades ago...
Recently, an old friend from graduate school mentioned that a classmate of ours had moved with his wife to Portugal. “I think they’re in Porto,” she said.
This past spring, I traveled around Mexico to buy furnishings for the new upstairs of my house in Guanajuato, in Mexico’s Colonial Highlands. I’d decided that I was going to completely furnish the space with handcrafted items, and I have.
Most North American visitors to Spain gravitate to Madrid, Barcelona, and Andalucía, Spain’s large southern region.
There is no hard data on the number of singles abroad—for that matter, the U.S. doesn’t know how many of its citizens live abroad, period. But at International Living, we hear from our worldwide network of correspondents (of whom I am one), who tell us who’s coming and going in their countries.