Arielle Loren

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpmr8Shy_UA] I’ve always been the baby of my friends thanks to my Dad putting me in pre-school early. But even in college, I just always seem to drift toward the older crowd, not by much (the typical age gap between my friends and I is between 2-5 years) but just enough for me to sit [...]

After 469 pages, I had this somewhat epiphany that went something like “Arielle, remember when you used to blog about the random thoughts that popped into your head before you moved to Spain?” Admittedly, not having 24 hour internet access and having to pay a drink price at café just to use their wifi, has [...]

So I couldn’t have been  more excited about my brother Bryson and Asha coming to visit me in Spain. They had been planning this trip for months and I was soooo happy to see it come through. Other than my Aunt Candace popping through to London (and me meeting her there), I haven’t seen my [...]

Without a doubt, Sevilla is the place for artistry. Whether you are a writer, painter, sculptor, photographer, artisan, dancer or whatever, the inspiration is here for your craft and with nothing but pure natural happiness alive in the atmosphere; so many great things have been created. For one, the Feria festival had all types of [...]

I think Santorini was the trip of “you only get to do this once in a lifetime.” It seemed like every crazy activity my friend Tammy and I got ourselves into was extremely exhilarating or just plain crazy. 1. We decided to walk up an active volcanoe, in flip flops, and with solely two bottles [...]

Funny enough, Mykonos has probably been the most memorable consecutive 4 days I have EVER had in my life. It was filled with the type of memories I would tell my grandchildren and reminded me so much of the story my Aunt Candace told me about her and my mom in Jamaica. For one, we [...]

After a 6 hour bus trip from Sevilla to Madrid and an overnight sleepover in Madrid’s airport, I finally was off to Athens, Greece which would be the amazing entry port to my Greece experience. As I have found in many European cities, modernization has seemed to consume every corner leaving very few neighborhoods to [...]

Since Cordoba is literally 40 minutes from Sevilla, I figured I’d take a day and go see the famous Mesquita/Catedral (mosque/cathedral), the Synagogue (one of only three left in Spain) and its other historical monuments. Cordoba is a rather interesting town, it’s river looks like a reflection of sand, but it has a cute little [...]

The university system in Spain is weird. We have a week break for Holy Week aka Semana Santa and another week break for Feria, a Spanish cultural festival. So for our first break for Holy Week, Tammy and I decided we would finally go to Valencia and its islands of Ibiza and Palma Mallorca off [...]

So after a thousand movies, books and films that romanticize the city of Barcelona, I arrived and was like HUH???? The city is a splitting image of New York City, which was such a disappointment because I was expecting to see more small old streets with winding passage ways and black gated balconies, but perhaps [...]