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Connie Raley-Rose in Iberospherical

A wooden fence, palm trees and sun loungers against a blue sky with white clouds

How I Found Myself Living in Costa Rica

A chance encounter that changed everything

Zivah Avraham 👁️ in Iberospherical

The red, white and green flag of the Basque Country

SCIENCE | ANCESTRY | DNA

DNA Discoveries in the Basque Country

A journey of hundreds of…

Matthew Clapham in Iberospherical

A black and white view of a beach, taken from the sea. The sand is crowded with sunshades; low-rise apartment blocks or hotels stand in the background.

CULTURE

Must Tourism Always Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg?

Zivah Avraham 👁️ in Iberospherical

The flag of Y Wladfa, a red dragon on blue and white horizontal stripes, combining the images of Wales and Argentina

LANGUAGE | CULTURE

Patagonia — Where the Welsh Language Went to Thrive

Matthew Clapham in Iberospherical

An irrigation channel and rusty sluice gate mechanism in the foreground, with a field of orange trees beyond

HERITAGE

Watering the Farmland of Spain: Storied Past and Troubled Present

Matthew Clapham in Iberospherical

A lone surfer wades into the Atlantic Ocean with their board.

SUBMISSIONS

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Philip Ogley in Iberospherical

Death in Venezuela

A tragic (and true) tale on the plains of Venezuela

Holly Moy in Iberospherical

The smoke of fireworks obscures a tower in Valencia

TRAVEL AND CULTURE

Fallas Is Over: But Will My Hearing Ever Recover?

Matthew Clapham in Iberospherical

The view looking out to sea from a rudimentary wood and palm frond structure on a tropical beach

MEMORIES

From Paradise to Perdition on a Venezuelan Beach

Whatever happened to the guy…

Kat De Moor in Iberospherical

Painting on amate illustrating vibrant scenes of Mexican life

Between Tacos and Tequila: Chronicles of an Adventurous Belgian in Mexico

Birth, marriage and burial…

These were the top 10 stories published by Iberospherical; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

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Editors

Matthew Clapham

Writers

Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬

Maryan Pelland, Woman with a Pen

Smillew Rahcuef

Evaluna Primavera

Janice Macdonald

Simone Leigh Author

Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!

Constanza Flores

Livvy Skelton-Price

Kimberley Silverthorne

Md Shahab Uddin

Natalie Hanemann

Deborah Howze-- SP-EN translator, interpreter

Paola Faben Oliveira

Gian Joel Forero

Zivah Avraham 👁️

Luna@Latinx Bridges

Isabella Solcà

Andrew Gaertner

João Pedro Fernandes

Carlos Garbiras

Eleni Stephanides

Mario López-Goicoechea

Adelia Ritchie, PhD

Juliette Williams

Sílvia PM, PhD 🍂🏳️‍🌈

Eunice Rabert Hernández

Fabrizia Scapinello

Connie Raley-Rose

Lilliana Méndez-Soto, Pharm.D.

Kerry Dooley Young

Patricia Gestoso

Besanya Santiago Ayala

Andrew Theophilou

Stanislava Mrkonjic, MEd

Author, K.D. Thorne: up close & personal from SOTB

Isabel Lugo Jarboe

Isabel Villasmil, MRes.

John Pearce 🌻

Dave Edward Keenan