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Travel & culture · 5 Sept 2026
The Teacher Who Painted a Miró
One of our teachers sent us a painting she’d made over the summer — a blue sky, a lopsided sun, a red moon. It got us talking about Joan Miró, and about how learning a language works a lot like learning to read his pictures.
Travel & culture · 26 Aug 2026
Crush It First: The Rules of La Tomatina
At noon today in Buñol, a rocket went up and around 22,000 people started throwing tomatoes at each other. There is one rule everybody forgets — and a whole vocabulary hiding inside the fiesta.
Travel & culture · 26 Aug 2026
Why Going to VIPS Is the Most Spanish Thing Ever
It is a diner. It was invented in Mexico. It serves club sandwiches under strip lighting. And it might be the most authentically Spanish place you can possibly go.
Travel & culture · 24 Aug 2026
Walking the Picos de Europa: Spain’s Best Place to Practise Your Spanish
Northern Spain’s limestone giants are the only national park in the country that people still live and work in — which makes them an unusually good place to actually open your mouth. The three sides of the range, the official routes with distances and ascent, and where the conversations really happen.
Travel & culture · 21 Aug 2026
Cooking a Full English on a Trangia: Camping Vocabulary for English Learners
A wet field, a small Swedish stove and a pan of sizzling bacon — one of the best English lessons you will ever have. Learn camping vocabulary, cooking verbs and the phrasal verbs that go with them.
Travel & culture · 14 Aug 2026
Sopocachi, La Paz: Where to Stay and Where to Drink Coffee
La Paz’s most liveable neighbourhood, decoded — the hotels and guesthouses worth booking, the cafés worth sitting in all afternoon, and what nobody tells you about caffeine at 3,600 metres.
Travel & culture · 13 Aug 2026
inDrive in La Paz: How to Haggle Your Way Around the World’s Steepest City
How to use inDrive in La Paz — the bid-your-own-fare app locals actually use. What to pay after Bolivia floated the boliviano, how to dodge the airport fare hustle, and the Spanish that makes it painless.
Travel & culture · 3 Aug 2026
Spanish Travel Phrases for Peru: Talk Like You’ve Been Before
The Spanish phrases that actually matter in Peru — from combis and ceviche to altitude and a little Quechua — grouped by the moments you’ll really use them.