Archive - Abroad

Not all men (but always men)

Dear good men, we're terribly sorry for hurting your feelings when we're scared to death you too may want to secretly rape us. Love, women.

Dec 23, 2024 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Why does everybody want this?

I've been thinking about love and its discontents a lot recently.

Oct 22, 2024 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

The English language has an extraordinary capacity for elegant deceit in plain sight.

Oct 31, 2024 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Do nothing but read

On the joys of getting lost in a book in the era of performative reading. Plus a reading challenge to celebrate World Book Day and The National Year of…

Mar 3 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Frenchflix and chill

I turned to Netflix for language support and I ended up watching what probably is the best romantic comedy of the year.

Oct 15, 2025 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Welcome to Infernos, Heathcliff

The new Wuthering Heights adaptation makes complete sense when you find out Margot Robbie used to live in Clapham.

Feb 20 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Ken goes to space and it's amaze, amaze, amaze

Ryan Gosling's interstellar charm in Project Hail Mary catapults him into the movie star stratosphere.

Apr 1 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Have we met before?

The one where I introduce myself properly and tell you a bit more about the Abroad life.

Nov 27, 2024 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

I went to Scotland with questions about national identity and life answered them by putting Tobias Menzies on my commute to work.

Jan 28 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Endings and beginnings

Bridget Jones and celebrating women, matinée concerts, unexpected discoveries at BAFTA, Netflix's adaptation of The Leopard, and why the manosphere…

Mar 11, 2025 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

#19 Culture Fix

Autumn resolutions, books + films, a must see exhibition, a tempting play, and two new albums to cosy up to as we get ready to welcome back darkness…

Oct 26, 2025 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

Strong independent woman

I could be living my best hot divorcée summer by now.

May 28 • Cristina Carmona Aliaga

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