They have shops, bars, restaurants and the like on the ground floor, and then offices or flats on the upper floors. Everyone lives in flats here, people don't have houses.
Living La Vida Loca...(Come on!) January 27th 2008 Lar Gorn to Thailand.....TTFN to England.....Hola to Spain! (I'm so multilingual....)
So then.
South East Asia....
England....
and now Spain.
In a single month of December we'd had our fill of English weather and were back on the road to the land of tapas, bullfighting, flamenco, guitars, tacky package holidays and men in big hats.
Yes. Spain. I'd have titled this blog "Viva Esp ... read more
Europe » Spain » District of Madrid » Madrid Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia.
Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth....
"Where next?" you might ask.
Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam.
We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info