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Barry O’Leary
Barry O’Leary has been an expat in Seville for nearly ten years. When he’s not teaching English, he describes how he sees life in Spain on his blog A Novel Spain. He has also lived and taught English in Brazil, Ecuador, Australia and Thailand and travelled around the world in the meantime. His non-fiction travel literature book, Teaching English in a Foreign Land, about his adventures as a TEFL teacher, has sold over 2,500 copies.
- Who’s Winning The Bilingual Battle Now?Some of you may have read my previous article about the battle I‘ve had on my hands to teach my Spanish kids English. Well, thankfully in the last month I…Read more
- 4 Things I’ve Learnt Since Being An Expat DadI’m a dad of two lovely Spanish kids. I say lovely because that’s what they are 90% of the time, the other 10% they can be complete devils. I enjoy…Read more
- Bringing Up Bilingual Children Just Isn’t That EasyBringing up two Spanish kids to be bilingual is immensely harder than I expected. Since arriving in Seville, back in 2005, I’ve spoken to many British expats about getting their…Read more
- You Can’t Beat A Bit Of Country Air In SpainAs I sit here on my new writing table, out in the patio hiding under a shelter with an inflatable swimming pool next to me to dip in now and…Read more
- Be Careful Of Dodgy Estate Agents In SpainThe process of buying a house in your own country is stressful enough. So add the complications of having to learn new house and bank related vocabulary in another language,…Read more
- Hats Off To Spain’s Baby Popping Out TeamWhether you’re a future Mum or Dad to be, nine months is a long time to play with ones uncontrollable imagination. The older I get, the more I worry. I…Read more
- Did You Become An Expat For Love?One minute I was on a plane heading for Sevilla to try to learn Spanish, and the next I’m watching a stunning Spanish lady walking down the aisle towards me,…Read more
- Why Everyone Should Have A Bash At Being An ExpatIs it only the brave who have the guts to live abroad? Do you have to be a little bit mental to give up the safety of your own country…Read more
- Onwards And Upwards2014 was a revolutionary year for me, and a turning point in my life. For ages I’d been toying with the idea of going back to England, or moving from…Read more
- You Can’t Beat Christmas With Your Own KindBoy am I glad to be heading back to London for Christmas. Last year I spent Christmas in Seville, not really through choice, but we’d just had a baby and…Read more