This weekend has been the Festa Major (Fiesta Mayor) of the Eixample Dreta where we live. Our street, C/Girona, was closed to traffic along much of its length to allow market stalls and entertainment stands to be set up. The intention was to take the fiesta back to the period when the Eixample [...]
I’ve uploaded some of the photos that we took in Zaragoza on the day of Daniel’s (Isabel’s nephew) first communion.
They are in the blog gallery here.
He cargado unas fotos del dÃa de la comunión de Daniel. Están en la galerÃa del blog.
We were flying back to Barcelona from Gatwick last night and while we were waiting in departures we noticed that we seemed to be surrounded by Spanish football supporters complete with Osborne bull flags and blue and white Espanyol scarves and banners. They were a very happy bunch - a complete mixture of ages and sexes. [...]
We were in Zaragoza last weekend for our nephew Daniel’s confirmation. Everyone had a great time. We picked up a car from our friendly neighbourhood Car Hire place and drove to Zaragoza in about 3 hours. We spent Saturday evening with Isabel’s brother Jesús, wife Mamen and kids Jesusito and Leonor. Sunday had a packed agenda [...]
Here’s an excellent piece of commentary from the BBC’s economic editor Evan Davis about the economics of Scottish independence. Anyone would think that today’s election is about independence, but of course it’s really just to elect the parliament and any vote on independence regardless of who wins the election today, would be a very long [...]
I just heard the great news that my cousin Eileen and partner John are going to be married next year. Congratulations to you both - we’re delighted! We’ll definitely be up for the wedding (hope it’s not too cold!)
We’re still living out of cardboard boxes and waiting for the builders to move out (at least of our main flat). We reckon that the carpintero has a coupled of days left, the lampisterÃa a couple of days (including fixing a nasty niff from our toilet (ironically called inodoro in Spanish), and the pintador has about three [...]