If you’ve been staying in La Iglesuela del Tiétar taking intensive Spanish courses in Spain, I have no doubt that you’re enjoying it – I mean, what’s not to like about mountains, a fun way to learn and quiet village life? But I personally know how exhausted your brain...
The road to Bodega Huellas del Tiétar winds through the Tiétar Valley—one of those routes that makes you roll the windows down just to smell the sun-dried grass and fig trees. By the time you reach Lanzahíta, a tiny village nestled into the southern slopes of the...
When you think of a small pueblo that dates back to 1641 – or at least that’s when Philip IV granted this one independence – you don’t exactly think of a huge, elevated stage with a myriad of multicolored spotlights and an arena-quality sound system. I didn’t. At...
If you’ve been staying in La Iglesuela del Tiétar taking intensive Spanish courses in Spain, I have no doubt that you’re enjoying it – I mean, what’s not to like about mountains, a fun way to learn and quiet village life? But I personally know how exhausted your brain...
Since my last blog post about false friends when learning Spanish, I’ve collected a list of 11 more false friends. These are words in two languages that look or sound similar but have very different meanings. And because the word appears familiar, it can easily trick...
The road to Bodega Huellas del Tiétar winds through the Tiétar Valley—one of those routes that makes you roll the windows down just to smell the sun-dried grass and fig trees. By the time you reach Lanzahíta, a tiny village nestled into the southern slopes of the...