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As Nik and I get ready for a trip to Vienna this weekend, our first trip outside of Barcelona, I wanted to write about how I acquired Austrian Citizenship in the spring of 2021. In the fall of 2019, Austria approved an amendment to the Austrian Nationality Act extending Austrian Citizenship to Persecuted Persons and…
To stay connected with friends, family and 2-Factor Authenticated Financial Institutions we use a series of services that might seem overly complicated. Our major goals for staying connected while abroad were to keep our US numbers for when we return, be able to receive and make calls and SMS messages with ease and have a…
Once we decided that Lufthansa was the airline we wanted to fly to Barcelona, mostly because of their good reviews of flying animals, we decided to treat ourselves to business class seats. For the most part, their flights went through either Frankfurt or Munich, but only Frankfurt flights allow for animals. As we started looking…
We are very lucky that Koval is crate trained and does very well in his crate…all except when traveling. When we’ve taken road trips, he whines initially but then settles down. We hope that was the case as he flew from Chicago to Barcelona via a layover in Frankfurt. Once we decided that we were…
After a year (or so) of researching and planning we finally arrived in Barcelona! Luckily, it was a pretty uneventful trip and Koval the dog was excited when we retrieved him at the BCN airport. (More on the process of flying a dog to come in a later and more detailed post.) After weeks of…
Koval the dog shows off his FC Barcelona shirt. And jump inside this post to see the fun we had using Koval to help announce that we are leaving our jobs.