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Meet the Danish Expat Behind Becci Abroad
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I’m Rebecca, a thirty-something Dane and long-term expat. Becci Abroad is where I share what more than a decade of traveling and living abroad has taught me.
Honestly, it started early. I was under two years old when my mum boarded a flight to Thailand with me on her arm. Growing up in a well-connected city like Copenhagen, travel was just… normal — from my first backpacker trip to the U.S. at seven, to city breaks in Paris and London.
But the trip that changed everything came right after I turned 18. I went couchsurfing alone in London during my autumn break. Six months later, fresh out of high school, I set off on my second solo trip — to Seville, Spain.
And that’s where it clicked.
All through school in Denmark, teachers and parents had drilled into us how essential English was. Then I landed in Seville, and nobody would speak anything but Spanish to me — except the crew at the hostel. I was equal parts baffled and fascinated.
That was the start of my life of solo travel and living abroad.
My goal
Why Becci Abroad?
Do you love visiting the famous spots and uncovering the history behind them?
Do you get a little thrill from finding the hidden, off-the-beaten-path corners of a new city?
Are you dreaming about packing up and moving abroad for real?
If you said yes to any of those, Becci Abroad is for you.
My goal here is simple: to help you get under the skin of the world. Not just the postcard version — the stories, the history, and the everyday reality of the places I travel to and live in.
Whether you’re planning a trip or planning a whole new life abroad, this is where you’ll find guides written by someone who’s actually done it.
¡Bienvenido a Becci Abroad!
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What you’ll find at Becci Abroad
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The Blog name
Why is the blog called “Becci Abroad”?
Back in elementary school in Denmark, my friends started calling me Becky — we’d picked it up as the go-to nickname for Rebecca in all the American movies and shows we watched after school.
We just… got the spelling wrong.
So Becky became Becci, and it stuck.
In the early 2000s, my mum bought the domain becci.dk and built me a little website as a birthday gift. I did nothing with it for years but kept using the email address. Then, as I was getting ready to leave for Argentina, I had the idea to start a travel blog to share the journey.
And that’s the whole story.
Becci is me. Abroad is where I’ve been for the last decade.
my story
10+ years of living abroad
🇪🇸 Granada, Spain: where it all began
Granada was the first place I actually moved to. In 2012, a few months after that first Seville trip, I went back to Southern Spain to volunteer at the same hostel I’d stayed in.
Three weeks in, the manager offered me a paid job as a receptionist at the chain’s newest hostel in Granada. He took a chance on me: I had close to zero Spanish but a decent level of English.
I stayed a bit over a year, working the front desk by day and taking private Spanish lessons on the side.
🇨🇺 Havana, Cuba: studying Spanish
In 2014, after only about six months back in cold Denmark, I was off again.
This time to Cuba, where I spent close to five months studying Spanish at the University of Havana and traveling around the island.
🇸🇪 Malmö, Sweden: abroad, right next door
During my undergrad in Denmark, I crossed the Øresund and lived two years in Malmö, a half-hour train ride from Copenhagen.
It sounds barely “abroad,” but that’s exactly what made it interesting: Denmark and Sweden are so alike, and yet the small differences between them tell you a lot about both.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina: the plan that changed my life
In 2016, I went to Buenos Aires for a single exchange semester, part of my Business Administration and Spanish degree at Copenhagen Business School.
One semester turned into seven years.
In Argentina, I earned two Master’s degrees (Organizational Analysis and Political Science), launched my professional career as a project manager, became a dog mum, and got married.
It’s fair to say Argentina holds a piece of my heart.
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain: landing back in Europe
In February 2023, after a lot of planning and saving, my Argentine husband and I packed our whole life in Buenos Aires into four suitcases and a dog crate for our dog, Baloo.
Argentina’s economic turmoil had become too much (as it has for so many Argentines), and we moved to Barcelona.
Barcelona was our soft landing back in Europe: a couple of years of finding our feet, working, and rediscovering what life on this side of the Atlantic feels like: this time with an Argentine husband and a dog.
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain: home for now
In 2025, we swapped the Mediterranean for the heart of Spain and moved to Madrid.
After the coast, the capital felt like a different kind of Spanish life altogether: bigger, buzzier, and endlessly walkable.
It’s where we are now, and where I keep doing what I do every day: putting the intercultural and language skills I’ve built over a decade abroad to work as a project manager.
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Want to follow along and get under the skin of the world with me?
Come say hej, hello, or hola! I’m most active on Instagram and Pinterest.
my travels
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Miami Beach, USA
Iguazu Falls in Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mendoza, Argentina
Cuba
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