Guest writer Christa Adams is a travel writer and passionate adventurer living in Barcelona. She often spends her time frolicking through Scottish forests, visiting hidden gems in Morocco, and sipping flat whites in cosy cafes. Follow her adventures at The Spirited Explorer. One of Spain’s most …
I am writing this as the entire world is essentially on lock-down, encouraging social distancing & self-isolation due to the new corona virus. It’s 2020, but governments are shutting down borders and flight routes are being cancelled by the minute. We have nowhere to travel …
I arrived in Portugal with a lot of expectations… my mind ran wild with anticipation of sandstone coastal cliffs awaiting my encounter. The streets would be narrow and winding, with hills steeper than San Francisco. Restaurant tables spilling precariously into cobblestone streets, with port wine …
The more I think about it, I really can’t overstate how lucky it was that my European flight was cancelled. When You Find Out Your Flight is Cancelled My boyfriend and I had been on a month-long European exploration, and were set to return home from Portugal …
I recently road-tripped around Iceland for about a week, and it was unlike anything else I’ve ever done. It’s hard to believe until you see it for yourself, but as you drive down the highway in Iceland, literally everywhere you look there is a new …
It began with a cloudy afternoon, months back, spent flipping through European vacation guide books in Barns & Noble… One particular photo caught our eye: the isolated, striking rocky pyramid rising through the sky that is The Matterhorn. Even just the name is enough to …
El Camino de Santiago I mentioned before (here and here) that I spent time hiking El Camino de Santiago. It was a truly incredible journey, and I think almost anyone stands to gain immensely from making this trek. Young, old, religious, nonreligious, seasoned hiker, or …
Springtime must be the best time of year to hike El Camino de Santiago, and the wildflowers may very well be the #1 reason. When I hiked El Camino de Santiago in May (confession linked here…I wasn’t able to hike the entire thing!), I loved soso many things …
I was just finishing packing my bags for London. Tomorrow was the day when my sister and I would finally board a plane out of Philadelphia, and I would leave the country’s borders for the very first time. We were taking a theatre class abroad …
I hadn’t even heard of it until I saw the movie The Way, a 2010 film about a father losing his son on a hike across Spain. (It’s a sad movie, but I guess I’d recommend it?) Said hike is called El Camino de Santiago, or El …
