
Untangling Credit-Card Fees in Spanish
I learned the hard way that plastic paradise can turn into fee purgatory. One Friday
I learned the hard way that plastic paradise can turn into fee purgatory. One Friday
The first time I tried to haggle rent in Santo Domingo, I relied on little
The first time I tried to convert cash in Santo Domingo, I walked into a
I used to track my Spanish progress the way kids measure height on a doorframe—random
The first time I froze mid-sentence in Spanish, I was standing at a Santiago de
I was bargaining for coconut earrings on Santo Domingo’s colonial Calle El Conde when my
The last time I swapped Caribbean palms for European platforms, I landed in Madrid’s Atocha
I stepped into the Museo de las Casas Reales on a humid Thursday, eager to
The breeze smelled like fried fish and sunscreen when I strolled onto Playa Alicia in
The sun hadn’t cleared the conifer ridges of the Cordillera Central when our Dominican guide,