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Style, price, selection … this hand-made espadrille shop, or Alpargatería, is everything you hoped for. Casa Hernanz Alpargatería, located at Calle de Toledo, 18, 28005 in Madrid, Spain, has some of the best handmade, affordable espadrilles in the city. I know because I went not once, not twice, but three times during my vacation in Madrid and picked up shoes for myself and my mom!
What is the Prado museum famous for? Plenty! Here are the highlights and things you need to know before your visit, based on my solo birthday trip to Madrid and the Prado Museum.
The Museo Nacional del Prado boats the best collection of Spanish art and some of the nicest collections of European art with over 8,200 drawings,
My Paris public transportation video and blog was so popular, I’ve decided to to another post on how to get around Madrid, Spain on a budget!
Madrid is the capital of Spain and the third largest city in the European Union, so how are you going to get around the city? I spent my last birthday in Madrid,
I clicked the “buy tickets” button, still reeling from my first solo travel adventure to Paris. It was my going to be birthday, after all, so why not spend four days in Madrid, Spain?
Ok, let’s back up a second. I didn’t expect to catch the travel bug nor did I plan to. So when I returned from Paris a swift depression hit.
How do you stay safe when traveling abroad? Is it safe to travel? These questions are what’s on everyone’s mind before taking their first trip abroad. No lie, these questions popped in my head, too! That’s why I decided to make this list of safety tips while traveling abroad, i.e.- how to stay safe, based on my experiences traveling internationally.
If the Majaraja of Datia can gift the world-traveling Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, something as cool as this coat of armor in 1876 without the internet, there’s certainly hope for you!
Do you hear what I hear? It sounds a like someone frantically typing on a keyboard, panicking because they have no idea of what kind of gifts they should buy for their world-traveling loved ones.
I can’t believe this happened to me. As great as a travel planner I think I’ve become spending time planning for every possible scenario, there’s no way I could’ve planned to get sick, let alone travel while sick, two days before my first trip to London. Ready or not, I was going to have the first-hand experience of traveling while sick overseas.
Paris is a beautiful, yet expensive and complex city, and the public transportation system is no different. While researching for my epic six-day solo adventure, I discovered the cheapest, fastest ways to travel in Paris and decided to share what I learned with you!
When I started my journey, I wanted to know what my cheap Paris transportation options were.
Traveling Abroad as a Person of Color:
The Underlying Reason Behind our Lack of Representation
You can’t really pinpoint the moment when “it” happens while traveling abroad as a person of color; but when “it” hits, you are incredible self-aware.
I sat on a hard red seat inside a crowded metro train in Paris on the way to an activity when I was hit with “it”.
What do you think restaurants established in 1725 smelled like? If I had to guess, I’d say restaurants in those days smelled like melted pork fat heavily seasoned with course salt — or something like that. Actually, I know that’s what a certain restaurant smells like. The scent I recall was similar to my grandmother’s kitchen on a hot summer’s evening in June,