Whether you’re a wine lover, a wine liker or an occasional wine sipper, La Rioja welcomes you!
In my experience there are several types of wine drinkers : Firstly, the connoisseurs, passionate and educated about wine. They can spit, slurp and gurgle their way through the finest ones, not to mention being able to identify a glass of murky red, from the merest of whiffs. Secondly, there are those who enjoy drinking wine, [...]
How to Live Life [Abroad]: A Review of Karen McCann’s “Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad”
![How to Live Life [Abroad]: A Review of Karen McCann’s “Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad”](http://www.travelgogirl.com/wp-content/themes/opinions/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelgogirl.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2F5493272.jpg&q=90&w=660&h=350&zc=1 "How to Live Life [Abroad]: A Review of Karen McCann’s “Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad”")
When Karen McCann undertakes uprooting herself from the U.S. with her husband, she does it with a joyful bent. In her work, Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Life Abroad, McCann relives moving from a conventional life in the Midwest to the Mediterranean adventure of Seville, Spain. Spinning a tale of side trips, [...]
Thrill Seeking and Mystique in Lanzarote
Weather. No matter where you are, it’s usually enough to make you want to throw your swimsuit, sunglasses, and a good pair of shoes into a rucksack and flee to the airport. Craving pristine sandy beaches with sparkling blue water, your mind jumps to the quiet, natural beauty of Lanzarote. A trek to Timanfaya [...]
Basque in the Glory of Free Cauliflower
Photo credit A Fuego Negro I never anticipated recreating classy Basque pintxos with donated food in the cavernous kitchen of my Chicago apartment (In fact, two and a half years ago I hadn’t even anticipated living in Chicago). However, due to a reliable supply of free food and a bit of Spanish inspiration, it’s [...]
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Places to visit in 2011
Spanning five continents and the creative imaginations of some of your favorite Go Girl writers, here a list of place we would like to visit this year (any of your own to add to our list?): 1. West Quoddy Head, Maine. Sounds a little random right? But it is the easternmost point on the U.S. [...]
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Ronda
Ronda was a surprise for all of us. It was a few days after Christmas, 2007, and my family was driving along the coast of Spain to celebrate in Malaga. I was so excited to experience a new part of the country, that I had been living in, with my mom, dad and little brother, [...]
Bilbao
I had heard stories, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect Bilbao. We arrived on a tour bus with fellow students crossing tall bridges into the city. I remember thinking that Bilbao felt like a fortress with the Guggenheim Museum nestled into the river bank. Except the Guggenheim Museum is no ordinary structure [...]
San Sebastian in March
On the bus ride with the study abroad cohort to San Sebastian, I saw snow. Let’s be honest, part of the reason I came to Spain to study abroad was for the culture and language, and the other big reason was to escape the snow and cold of Boston (where I attended college). Needless to [...]
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Sevilla
After a short bus ride from, we finally made it to the ‘real’ Spain. Barcelona (our home city at that time) is an amazing city, but as many Catalans love to tell you, it is not Spain. Sevilla (Seville), however, is southern Spain’s capital of culture, flamenco, and tapas. I was ready to experience this [...]
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Granada
Granada was a sleepy dream dressed up in an old world mysticism, that southern sense of Spanish calm, and cold. It was really cold. Granted, it was late in the fall, but I was used to Barcelona’s beautiful weather and the tank top standard. Braving the weather, and bracing for the worst, I pulled on [...]
