Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 972

Well I have made it through my first week on the CELTYL course!! I have enjoyed my first week although it has been a lot of hard work. I am lucky enough to be living fairly close to International House - it only takes about 10 minutes to get here every morning which is great. There are 9 of us on the course altogether and we are quite the multi-cultural bunch. We are ranging in age from 21-50 and are from England, England again, England but living in Switzerland, England but living in Spain, Ireland but currently living in Spain, half American half Swiss, Italian, Argentinian but living in Sweden, New Zealand but living in Switzerland!! Everyone on the course is really nice and we´ve had a lot of fun together so far. The work is ... read more

Leon was a success two days ago. Camping gas replenished (after a meticulous search lasting two hours and including much head shaking from the locals) and photos copied to CD. Leon is the major city of this region. As we approached a Commando strategy was hatched (get-in, get-it, get-out) to minimise the discomfort and avoid another Burgos style shock to the system. The past two days have been highly exciting watching the Spanish play chicken on the N-120. The N-120 is a fast, 100 kilometers per hour, single lane in each direction road that runs directly from east-to-west (the Romans would be proud). It is a road we are now very familiar with as our path has often gone close or crossed it several times. The province of Leon seems to have somewhat over estimated the ... read more

¡Hola! On June 29th we meet the family´s that we are staying with in Salamanca. We pulled up to a park where about 20 sweet ladys were standing, waiting for us. We all got off the bus, nervous about meeting our ´mama´s´ for the next month. Our names were calling and we greeted our new mamas with a kiss on each cheek. Madison and I were placed with a 46 year old lady named Monserrat. We walked with her to our apartment. Turns out we have the penthouse apartment. It is a 6 bedroom, 2 bath, kitchen and dinning room apartment with a huge wraparound roof top balcony with a gorgeous view of the city. In our apartment there are other borders who are going to school here as well. There is a boy from University ... read more

Well we finally made it to Spain after a nail bitting morning waiting for my passport. We spent most of the night packing our bags and finalising last minute bookings as we didn't expect the passport to arrive in time! After a standard Ryan Air flight into Sevilla we made our way into the city centre, depositing our bags at the Oasis hostel before collapsing for an afternoon siesta as we were warned not to be typical tourists braving the day heat. Up at 4pm, ready to tackle the sites of Sevilla, we left the hostel but found the streets devoid of locals and full of other dum tourists! The reason quite obviously being the 40 degree heat - if any of you visit Spain siesta time is from 3 to 6pm not 2 to 4pm!!! ... read more

Just a note to say I will be in Barcelona this weekend. On the Beach. I pray it all goes well. Happy 4th of July. I will be back Sunday Night. LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS HOME! Nicole ... read more