Blogs from Madrid, District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 93

We arrived in Madrid not having a place to stay for the night, but we easily found a hostel and slept soundly with eight other French guests. We spent a good amount of time lounging about lazily in the many wonderful street cafes that make Madrid, and I would guess many other European cities, so great. We ate and drank and spent way too much money, but had a great time doing it. We did manage to get out and see a museum full of Picassos as well as a nice free tour of the city. We also watched a few movies and met many new friends. Our first night there we met a nice group of Polish travelers who were in town for a basketball game. We drank good beer and ate croquettas with them ... read more

by anna Weeks one and two in Spain have been sensational. It has felt like we have been here for forever, in a good way. The first weekend, we were lucky enough to have a Spanish colleague of David’s in town, and we met her and her sister to see a Picasso exhibition and then they took us to lunch and showed us around town a bit. Great to get a local intro! Being back at ‘school’ has been somewhat intimidating, especially when the teachers only speak Spanish with you. I know, I know, best way to learn etc, but when that includes giving instructions for a grading test we had to do first up, and the times for classes, etc, it was a little overwhelming. Week 1 went something like this: Day 1 - terrified ... read more

Hallo! Ich (=Kathi) sitz grad im Internetcafe und will euch wieder neue Fotos hochladen (Osterwoche). Wie ihr wisst sind wir im Sueden gewesen, Fotos die jetzt kommen sind in Sevilla und in Cadiz etnstanden. War echt schoen :) Derzeit gehts uns super, es wird hier jetzt richtig warm. Am Freitag und Samstag hatten wir knappe 30 Grad! Samstag waren wir im Retiropark und man konnte sich schon richtig im Bikini sonnen, echt herrlich! Allerdings wenn man dann im Schatten ist wird es ein wenig kuehl...naja. Gestern waren wir dann in Segovia auf Tagesausflug, wieder bei ziemlicher Hitze. Segovia ist ein kleines altes Staedtchen mit einer riesigen Altstadt und einem echten Maerchenschloss, das schaut wirklich so aus!!! Am Nachmittag hat es dann aus irgendeinem Grund zum Hageln angefangen, das war erst recht merkwuerdig bei der ganzen Waerme, ... read more

by anna and david (in italics) Resort Bilston After a week of packing up the apartment and living amongst the chaos, we headed to Ballina (home) to spend two weeks being completely spoilt by my folks. Each morning we woke to a freshly made coffee from Dad, who has taken it on himself to hone his coffee skills to mix it with the best of the baristas (and he’s succeeding, as usual), before being fed gourmet lunches and dinners from Mum’s formidable repertoire of recipes. David's mum joined us for a long weekend. We'd had a week of sunshine but unfortunately it rained the whole time Beverley was there. Still there was plenty of things to do (see photo of Mum and Bev with matching shopping bags). Needless to say, two weeks in Resort Bilston meant ... read more

Hola!!! So endlich schaffen wir es wieder zusammen auf der Uni zu sitzen, denn ich (Kathi) bin endlich wieder gesund!!! Gestern war mein letzter Tag Antibiotika :) JUHU!!! Jetzt muss ich nur noch 1 x am Tag so eine Art Vitamin C Tablette zur Stärkung des Immunsystems nehmen. Zum Glück, denn diese blöden Antibiotika waren riesig!!! Sonst gehts uns eigentlich prima, morgen fahren wir auf eine 5 tägige Tour in den Norden (Leon, A Coruna, Santiago de Compostella), wird sicher schön, hoffentlich klappts auch mim Wetter. Also ja, hier passt alles und jetzt wollen wir ENDLICH die Fotos online stellen. Es folgt zuerst Fotos der 4. Woche....schon langeee her :) ... read more