Author
Sabina Ostrowska was born and raised in Poland. She earned an undergraduate degree from Warsaw University in Poland, a master's degree in the Netherlands at Nijmegen University, and a doctorate from Exeter University in the UK. For the majority of her career, she worked as an English teacher, or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher. She taught high school in Sweden; and primary, secondary, and tertiary levels in the United Arab Emirates. Her last job was a senior lecturer at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi.
In 2014, she and her husband left Abu Dhabi and became self-employed. They have a small guest house in the middle of the olive groves outside Montefrio. For our audience, Montefrio is a municipality in the province of Granada, which is one of 8 provinces within Andalusia. Andalusia, by the way, has a population of 8.5 Million.
The couple owns a language school in a nearby town of Alcala la Real. Sabina is also a writer and has written textbooks for Cambridge University Press and other non-fiction books. Her book The Crinkle Crankle Wall is the first in a series depicting the couple’s adventures of trying to start a new life among the olive groves in rural Andalusia.
While Sabina’s main hobby is writing non-fiction, she also enjoys long walks and photographing nature. Additionally, she loves art and used to oil paint, but she doesn't have much time for that anymore.
Imagine this, you are living in Abu Dhabi but desire more of a rural life. You have never been to Spain and you don’t know Spanish, would you purchase an old house, without a roof, in a rural spot in …