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Bringing you travel guides, hidden gems, and expat life from a Danish long-term expat
Getting Under the Skin of the World
Comprehensive travel and expat guides to get under the skin of the world!
Why Becci Abroad?
Do you enjoy visiting popular tourist attractions and learning about their history?
Do you love exploring hidden gems and off-the-beaten-path places in a new city?
Are you dreaming about moving abroad full-time?
If you answered yes to any of the three questions above, Becci Abroad is for you!
The goal of Becci Abroad is to get under the skin of the world! Discovering the history and the stories about popular places and hidden gems!
Whether you are traveling and exploring new places or you are moving abroad to a new city, Becci Abroad helps you get under the skin of the world!
¡Bienvenido a Becci Abroad!
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Expat Life
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My Story
+10 Years of Living Abroad
Hej!
I’m Rebecca, a 30-something-year-old Danish woman and long-term expat.
Becci Abroad is my expat and travel blog where I share my insights from over a decade of traveling and living abroad.
I started traveling when I was just under two years old. My mum boarded a flight to Thailand with me on her arm. Growing up, I would frequently travel with my mum to new places; from my first backpacker trip to the U.S. when I was seven to city breaks in Paris and London. You gotta love being from a well-connected city like Copenhagen!
Shortly after I turned 18, I embarked on my first solo trip couchsurfing in London during the autumn break of my second year of high school.
Six months later, I was fresh out of high school, and on my way to my second solo trip to Seville, Spain.
In Spain, my fascination with the Spanish language and culture started!
Throughout my high school years in Denmark, everyone from teachers to parents had filled our heads with how important it is to learn English.
Here I was in Seville, and nobody would speak other than Spanish to me apart from the people at the hostel!
I was puzzled and fascinated at the same time!
This was the start of my journey to solo traveling and living abroad!
Granada, Spain
Granada was the first place I moved abroad to!
In 2012, a few months after visiting Seville for the first time on my second solo trip, I headed back to Southern Spain.
I had signed up to volunteer at the same hostel where I had stayed the first time I visited Seville. After three weeks of volunteering, the hostel manager offered me a paid position as a receptionist in the hostel chain’s newest addition in Granada. He took a chance on me because I had close to no Spanish skills – but, at least, a decent English level.
I stayed in Granada for close to two years, while working at the hostel and taking private Spanish classes to improve my Spanish.
Havana, Cuba
In 2014, I left cold Denmark behind after having only stayed for around six months since returning from Spain.
I onboarded a flight to Cuba and stayed in Cuba for close to 5 months while studying Spanish at the University of Havana and traveling around Cuba.
Malmo, Sweden
During my undergraduate studies in Denmark, I moved across the Øresund Strait and lived for two years in Malmo, Sweden (a half-an-hour train ride from Copenhagen).
Living abroad in Sweden was a special experience because Denmark and Sweden are culturally so similar and closely related, but there are still small differences between the two countries.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In 2016, I did an exchange semester in Buenos Aires as part of my undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Spanish at Copenhagen Business School. The initial plan was to stay in Buenos Aires for one semester!
But six months turned into living in Argentina for seven years!
In Argentina, I studied for two Master’s Degrees (one in Organizational Analysis and one in Political Science), I started my professional career as a project manager, became a dog mum, and got married.
Needless, to say Argentina holds a very special place in my heart!
Barcelona, Spain
After much planning and saving, in February 2023, my Argentine husband and I packed our lives in Buenos Aires into four suitcases and a dog cage for our dog, Baloo.
The economic turmoils in Argentina got too much for us (as it has become for many other Argentines), and we moved from Buenos Aires to Barcelona.
We have been living in Barcelona ever since. I work as a full-time project manager for a British company with offices in Barcelona (among many other locations worldwide). I use the intercultural and language skills, I have learned over the years abroad, every single day at work.
Why is the Blog Called Becci Abroad?
Back in elementary school in Denmark, my friends used to call me Becky. We had heard that this was a common nickname for Rebecca in the American movies and TV shows we saw in the afternoons after school.
But we clearly didn’t get the spelling right!
So, instead of Becky, my nickname ended up being spelled: Becci.
In the early 2000s, my mum bought the domain becci.dk and created a website for my birthday.
I did nothing with the domain for years but kept using the email connected to it.
As I was planning to leave for Argentina, I got the idea of starting a travel blog to share my experiences and travel tips.
That’s why the blog is called Becci Abroad!
Becci is me!
Abroad is where I have been for the last decade!
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