Though it’s a lie when I say that nothing has changed now that I’m a mum, it’s also true that you are the only one who sets boundaries—and the only one who will be able to cross them. Hiking to Refugio Vega de Urriellu in the Picos de Europa with my one-year-old in a carrier was equal parts wild, exhausting, and liberating. It reminded me that adventure doesn’t end with motherhood—it just changes shape.
Perhaps you´ve already noticed, maybe it´s news to you: but we moved from the warm and sunny province of Granada to the slightly less sunny province of Cantabria. Why? is the question we get asked so often. ´Because of the amazing waves´, is our answer. Out of respect for the locals (which, yay, now includes …
When I first saw a picture of Riaño in a National Geographic Travel Magazine, and I saw that it was located in Spain, I marked it with a little red heart on my Google Maps (Yes, I have many little red hearts there ;)). Visiting our friends in Léon with our 6-week-old baby turned out …
The Carretera de la Cabra (the Goat´s Road, in English) is one of my favorite climbs to cycle at the Costa Tropical. And I´m not alone in that, the Vuelta a España actually came by this route as they were going up to Granada last year (2018). As it is the old road from the …
So you want to become a freelancer in Spain? For those going autónomo, here a little list with steps and explanations 🙂
Some years ago I had never heard of a co-working. Though I am sure it was a thing already, I wasn’t looking for it, simply because I was working as a fixed employee at an office in Cali, Colombia. But when I started going ´solo´ in March 2016, all of a sudden co-working became a …
A couple of weeks ago, one of the readers of this blog told me ´wow, everything is just going very smoothly for you over there in Spain right?´. And though, in general, I am getting used to my new life in Spain, it´s by far not been, and still not, a smooth process and the …
One of the reasons we chose the Costa Tropical as our new living place after almost 9 years in Latin America was the proximity of both the Mediterranean sea and the Sierra Nevada mountains. I mean, where else in the world can you find blue seas, little rocky beaches and white villages in mountains with …
So, it´s been a while I´ve written something here. Sorry about that! Let´s say that in between moving continents, attending a Participatory Video Festival in Belgium, working in Burkina Faso for three weeks, visiting friends and family in the Netherlands and trying to settle here in Spain, writing for the NonMad somehow slipped in between. …