We go out with friends for a drink and tapas often; unlike our experiences going out in groups in the US though paying the bill at the end is pretty simple. Two things make it much easier to split the bill in Spain. First, the tax is included in the price of whatever you order [...]
There are essentially two ways to enroll in a Spanish class/school in Granada – either directly with a school, or through a broker. I have enrolled in Spanish classes in both ways and I strongly recommend not only enrolling directly with a school or program but even more strongly that you do not ever use [...]
Some things I used to take for granted I don’t any more. One of them is knowing what to say in social situations that come up that you don’t learn about in books. For example, what do people typically say on the voicemail message, either the greeting or the message itself, when they call each [...]
This week is “Corpus” in Granada, the annual week-long feria (fair) that is during the week of Corpus Christi (body of Christ). Corpus is filled with fun things like parades, a fair, music, arts and everything you’d expect and possibly heard of about the famous ferias in Andalucia. We went to the parade yesterday afternoon [...]
I end up at the local hardware store a few times a month; most hardware stores here are small independent affairs with a small selection of very common things available to browse but with the bulk of the inventory upstairs or downstairs in a place for employees only. So of course to get most anything [...]