There are just some things that you have to do once in your life. No, I don't mean the classics, get a good job, car, a mortgage, a spouse, have kids etc, but a list of things that aren't as widely spoken of, yet still have an everlasting impact on your life, sort of like a really great B-side album or track. An example of such things are staying awake all night under the stars with only a woolly tartan blanket for cover (that's so small, your legs stick out the end)-check, going to a live concert- check, going to a [View Full Entry]

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A lot can happen in 2 weeks. To pick up from where I left off from my last blog, I had no idea how what I would be doing over the next few days let alone the next two weeks. Ok, I did end up in Granada the following weekend, but never in a million years would I have predicted that at 6am on November the 1st, I'd have ended up in a fountain (again) with Roisin and Laura, dressed as a zombie in clown pants. That's just the way life goes here, I love the spontaneity of things, spur of [View Full Entry]

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As I sit here listening to that powerful, vibrant and sensational Idlewild track, which I've used for the title to this entry, I realise that this song sums up my current situation in Córdoba- I'm 4 weeks in at university here, and they don't have an effing clue! I'm sitting here at my desk, and the site that greets me is one that suggests autumn is here. Leaves are falling, it's a bit cloudy, and the temperature has dropped significantly- to 24 degrees (and my flatmates are feeling cold) !! I've plugged in my speakers so the aforementioned song gives a [View Full Entry]

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.....but one wasn't quite enough. In the end we needed 3 for the win, 2 for an acceptable draw. So there I was, storming out the pub in my hoops, in a rage that our donkey like defenders cost us an unnecessary Old Firm defeat. Rangers 2, Celtic 1, and the world spins madly on. Walking out of the bar, I growled at a young Spaniard who had innocently come to comment on my Celtic shirt and stormed down the street, dissecting what had a occurred at Ipox stadium that afternoon. Yes, we'd been beaten, yes, my theory about Ranger's never [View Full Entry]

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Murphy's Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will. Being an optimist, I don't view the world this way. You make your own fate, some things may happen for a reason, to challenge you, to make you rise above the hardest obstacles that get thrown in your away in order to make it to the finish, the destination in your mind that you've been striving to get you. Life is good, very good. I've met a lot of people, Spanish and International, many who have the potential to become great friends. I've settled into my flat, and changed my [View Full Entry]

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This blog is dedicated to my good friend Jo-Ann Mcgarvey, who has complained about the length of my 'novels'. I hope this dedication to her sparks a new interest into my tales in Spain. So here I am, with an extremely sore throat and a crackly voice, praying that I'll be fine to talk tomorrow when I got to ETEA for my very first day at uni. Well technically, it's not classes, but it's more of an induction week, where we go along with our tutors, and are told what's happening. Many of you know that over the summer, ETEA were [View Full Entry]

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Ask that question in any supermarket in Andalucia and you'll always get the same response: "Si Si, esta allí," the locals would say, whilst pointing to a massive unrefrigerated row of long life, stale, dodgy tasting, bad excuses for bottles of milk, that are packaged in containers you'd expect to find breakfast juice in. So, on saturday, 05/09/09, Rafa responded exactly like that whilst we were at Carrefour for my first shop to get the basics for the flat that I'd just moved into. For those unfamiliar with the European supermarkets, Carrefour is the 2nd largest supermarket chain in the world, [View Full Entry]

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"Yeah, great, ok, thanks, bye!"- Says I, after walking out the old Bank of Scotland building on Buchanan St, roughly 3 years ago, having set up my student bank account in 10-15mins. Ok, so time to get a bank account this time round in Spain, although the language barrier should admittedly be a pain, it won't take that long.....A DAY AND A HALF!!!! On Wednesday morning, I had gone into the Caja Sur branch to ask if I would be able to open a bank account without having an address yet here in Spain. Si Si, was the reply, all I [View Full Entry]

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.......Then you'd see the first flat that I looked for today as I begun my flat search!! So, just to update you all on what's been happening over the last few days. In August, Córdoba empties, everyone goes on holiday, so as I came out early, there wasn't really a lot to do on the whole 'moving abroad' scale of things, so living in a hotel room with my folks has felt to me like a bit of a summer holiday........and being in a room with them, well makes me feel like I'm a small child again. I've been growing accustomed [View Full Entry]

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"Time to get up James"- words you never want to hear from your mother whilst lying sleeping on a couch at 3.22am. Heck, words you never want to hear from anyone whilst lying on a couch at 3.22am!! So, guessing most of you will be thinking the same thing.....what the hell were you doing lying sleeping on a couch?? For once, it wasn't because I got pished and KO'd at a friends house, normally that happens AT 3.22am, but I'd stayed up in my parents new flat in Glasgow, as I had a 6am flight to catch to Malaga in order [View Full Entry]

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