Spain Series
The Most Entertaining Way To Plan For Your Trip!
Spain captures your attention by provoking your senses, with its food, wine, music and landscape. Spain is a land of contrasts blending its historic past with its modern sensibility. In the Career Break Secrets Video Guide to Spain, Jeff takes you around Spain from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid to Barcelona to Seville, showing you how to connect to the country through it language, its food, its wine and the countryside.
Order a Country Pass to Spain to receive just the episodes in Season One from Spain. This Video Travel Guide Series will make planning your adventure fun and simple. See trailers from the Spain Series below.
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Episodes cover one of these three types of popular career break activities:
- Ways to pick up a new skill like learning a foreign language, sailing or cooking
- Ways to give back and volunteer whether for social or conservation causes
- Cool ways to see the country by bike, boat, foot, train or other things we can find
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Episode 1: Learning Spanish in Madrid
Learning Spanish in Madrid
For those wanting a deeper connection to Spain, a good start is to learn or improve your Spanish. We went inside one of the largest language institutes in Spain, the Don Quijote Institute, to see what the experience is like. In this episode you will
- See a day in the life of the students
- See what class environment is like
- Learn how the program functions and how to get started
- Hear from a career breaker on her experience
- Go inside the student housing to see where some of the students live
- See one of the cultural activities
- Learn the criteria you should use for choosing a language school right for you
- Get the 5W’s and 1H overview of the Don Quijote program
- Get the Career Break Secrets’ Top Secrets for studying Spanish in Spain
- See it all in HD
Episode 2: Walking the Camino de Santiago
Walking the Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago, or Saint James Way, is one of the most storied walks in the world. Those that undertake the challenge are called pilgrims and we follow one such pilgrim telling her story and the story of the Camino along the way. In this episode you will:
- See what life is like on the Camino
- Learn what you need to pack for the journey
- See life inside the albergues, or shelters, where the pilgrims sleep
- Hear from multiple pilgrims had to say about their experience and why they walked
- See how to deal with blisters
- Get budget tips so you know how much you will need
- Hear from the Coordinator of the Office of the Pigrim
- Get the 5W’s and 1H overview of walking the Camino de Santiago
- Get the Career Break Secrets’ Top Secrets for walking the Camino de Santiago
- See the beautiful landscape of the Camino and the architecture of Santiago de Compostela
- See it all in HD
Episode 3: Cooking Classes in Seville
Cooking Classes in Seville
Spanish cuisine is one of the most popular in the world. We go to Seville, inside one of the most renowned cooking schools in Spain, A Taste of Spain, for our own private cooking class. In this episode, you will:
- Follow Jeff and Chef Ruth as they visit the Seville market to pick out their ingredients
- See how 6 dishes from the Andalusian region are prepared
- Olive and Almond Tapenade
- Salmorejo (a cousin to Gazpacho)
- Artichokes with ¨Black Hoof¨ Ham
- Fillets of Fresh Anchovies
- Prawns in Garlic Oil
- Baked Saffron Rice with Cuttlefish
- See the process from market to preparation to service
- Learn about the history of the dishes
- Learn about Spanish cuisine
- Get the 5W’s and 1H overview of A Taste of Spain
- Get the Career Break Secrets’ Top Secrets for taking cooking classes in Spain
- Have your mouth water at all the beautiful food prepared
- See it all in HD
Episode 4: Discovering Spain’s Wine Culture
Jeff travels around Spain to learn more about the wine culture of Spain and how to learn the basics of Spanish wines.
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