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Europe » Spain » Aragon » Zaragoza October 12th 2005

WOOOOAAHHHHHHHHH!!! I knew that my time in Spain had really started when Adrianna (my spanish flatmate) came into my room last night and choking on her own laughter awarded me a eurovision-stylee "ten points" for finding me passed out fully-clothed in our bathroom at 5.30am that morning (i think the 12 points must have gone to the bloke from Lichtenstein). The 'fiestas del pilar" are the highlight of the unfathomably overlooked Zaragoza's social calender. Basically it is a series of week long festivities (religous and otherwise) built around the 'pillar' (geddit??) of the city, the virgin del Pilar, and peaking today, la Dia de Nuestra Senora del Pilar. We get the week off uni in order to fully er...'appreciate' events, which range from tapas feasts to concerts (anyone remember Bonny Tyler?) and the incredible procession of ... read more
Seriously though...
"Who called the hut?!!!"
She can have her cake and eat it

Europe » Spain » Aragon » Zaragoza September 28th 2005

¡¡¡Hey guys!!! Hope all´s fab in ol´blighty, because luckily for me things are still muy bien at this end too. Catching up on what i wrote last time i got the job looking after the two little girls, Sofia and Irene (said /Eerenay/) and have now moved into my flat and started throwing myself into study at the uni (well, less throwing myself, more dragging my ass along to get there for 9am lectures...god, whatever must life be like in the real world eh?!). Anyhoo, I love love love my 70´s style flat and the three girls i´m sharing with are totally fantastic. A quick rundown is that the finnish girl Johanna is possibly one of the funniest people you will ever meet, with a completely oddball sense of humour (kindred spirit then), as well as ... read more
Annabelle and I
And here's the sun we were enjoying!
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