About Extremadura, Spain - Piggy Traveller

Thinking about visiting Extremadura, Spain?

Read everything you need to know before your trip to Spain’s most underrated region.

Why visiting Extremadura, Spain

Extremadura or how NOT to be yet another typical guiri in Spain
10 things you’ll experience in rural Extremadura
A Brit’s first impressions about Extremadura

How to get to Extremadura

Planning a trip to Extremadura: how to get there
Travelling to Extremadura: how to get to Mérida

Where to go

Top destinations for first timers

Mérida
Trujillo
Cáceres
Guadalupe
Badajoz

Towns and villages

Alcántara
Alburquerque
Fregenal de la Sierra
Garganta la Olla
Hervás
Jerez de los Caballeros
Medellín
Llerena
Montánchez
Plasencia
Robledillo de Gata

Where to stay

Accommodation in Extremadura: what are the options?

Food and drink

9 unmissable treats you need to try in Extremadura
The ham fight: Serrano vs Iberico
Tips for travelling to Extremadura as a vegetarian

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Best wishes for the Christmas period from Edinburg

Best wishes for the Christmas period from Edinburgh to wherever you are.

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I'm quite a fan of using colour coding. For examp

I'm quite a fan of using colour coding.

For example, I use a traffic light colour system for the status of my projects:

🔴 for projects I'm working on
🟡 for projects delivered but still unpaid
🟢 for paid projects

(For upfront payments I use green in the payment cell withing a current project.)

I also like using colours when I study and I buy notebooks of different colours for different jurisdictions:

🟩 for England and Wales
🟥 for Spain
⬜ for Scotland

And, if writing in black ink, for example, I use a different colour to add comments comparing concepts, principles, etc. from the other jurisdictions.

Are you a colour coding fan, too?

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☕Monday mood🍫

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I've spent most of yesterday's evening and today b

I've spent most of yesterday's evening and today bedridden with migraine. Husband just woke me up: 'the parcel arrived'.

And here it is.

THE PARCEL from my parents.

In the picture:

• Turrón * 3. A pity that this year our usual local turrón from Extremadura isn't available. Castuera has been badly hit by the virus and the factory didn't open.
• Chestnuts
• Sheep cheese spread (from Extremadura)
•TONS of oranges from my parents' tree.
• Portuguese coffee
• Iberian chorizo (from Extremadura)
• Olives (marinated by hand)
• Rosemary and thyme sheep cheese
• Iberian ham * 4 (from Extremadura)
• Iberian pork loin (from Extremadura).

Happy girl.

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#parcel #christmasparcel #extremeños #goodstuff #expatlife #fromspain #spanishfood #iberico #localfood

I'm finding it a bit hard to navigate these last f

I'm finding it a bit hard to navigate these last few working days. I lose focus more and more often, a clear sign that I need a break. We're also currently having a house situation (hopefully getting fixed on Monday). 🙄

Thinking about it, I DO need a break. I don't know about you, but I haven't had proper time off this year, except for a week in September. And the whole selling a house + buying a flat + relocating thing has been exhausting, too. 😵

I've had days and even weeks of hardly any work, but that isn't really a break, is it? They're simply days of no proper working, days of a lot of stress and anxiety trying (not always managing) to do some other productive things, so that doesn't count!👎

And to think that in the previous tax year I took nearly 50 working days off... 😂 (I love holidays and travelling as much as my job, thank you very much.)

Despite not really travelling, I decided to take some time off. My last working day will be Tuesday 22/12, back in the office on Monday 04/01. 😎

What are your plans?
Are you taking some time off?

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📔Planner: because planning is good. ✏️Penc

📔Planner: because planning is good.

✏️Pencils: because flexibility is good (and I already ruined a planner and a wall calendar. Not anymore).

I'm very picky with planners and organisers. I like A5 one page per day planners which also include weekly and monthly plan pages, a year calendar and monthly calendars. #theimpossible

Last year, I got a one day per page planner and a pack of monthly calendars + weekly pages which I downloaded, printed, cut and glued to the planner. I know... 🙄

For 2021, I bought a monthly planner, with calendars, planning and review sections but only 3 days per page 😱. Let's see how it goes. Maybe that helps me be more focused?

I use an Outlook calendar, too, but I still like to use paper planners.

How do you like your planners?

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