How to Work in Barcelona on a Student Visa
This is a brief post meant to inform anyone curious about how to work in Barcelona as a student. I am in Barcelona on a Spanish student visa. I have the TIE. I arrived...
Author: Cale
Hitchhiking in France
In 2007 I hitchhiked for the first time from Poitiers, France to La Rochelle. The latter is a small city on the Atlantic coast and I had been living in the former as a...
Hold on, University of the Road: From Full-time Traveler to Full-time Student
I graduated with a degree in undecided In August of 2009 I set out from Oregon on an unknowable journey. They’d given me a bachelor’s degree, and with it I knew that I didn’t...
Where to Pick Up Your Spanish NIE in Barcelona
This post is a follow-up to the last post I wrote about applying for your Spanish NIE/TIE card. For those of you just joining this series of helpful articles, know that I’m writing...
How is Catalan Different from Spanish
I’ve been in Barcelona for nearly two months now and still I do not speak Catalan, despite it being similar to Spanish. Anyone who speaks Catalan also speaks Spanish, which becomes the default language if...
Why I Decided to Study in Spain
On October 18th of this year, 2014, I arrived in Barcelona prepped for a year and a half of studying here in Spain. This brief informative blog post is meant to present the objective reasoning...
How to Apply for the Spanish NIE/TIE in Barcelona
Note: This post is a follow-up to the article “What to do After you Receive Your Spanish Student Visa,” which is itself a follow-up post to “How to Apply for the Spanish Student...
Modern People and Their Migration
It was early September when we found ourselves traveling across the Puget Sound on the Edmond’s Ferry. Across the way was the Olympic Peninsula, where in Port Townsend the 38th Annual Wooden Boat Festival would take place that...
The Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington
In 2014 I was in the area of Port Townsend, WA during their annual Wooden Boat Festival. So I went. Unfortunately there’s not much information on the festival (as evidenced by the lackluster Wikipedia...
Hitchhiking Boats across Oceans
Boat hitchhiking (working as crew on a sailboat) is like being a pirate sailor. It’s easy to romanticize the pirate’s life. Swashbuckling and pillaging, being free and terrible, riding the high seas to the tune...
