Archive for June, 2007

Noche de San Juan and wooden fridges

Monday, June 25th, 2007

23rd June was the midsummer fiesta in Barcelona (and presumably in the rest of Spain, but it’s a big one here).  Saturday night saw fireworks spectaculars at the beach and all night verbanas with petardos until dawn.  We spent the night down at the beach last year with Isabel’s brother, Juan and his Italian/Canadian friend [...]

No more builders

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

It’s been almost a month since I last updated this blog, and what a month it has been.  We have been for a long (felt more like short) weekend to visit my parents in Insch in Scotland.  We managed to get direct flights from Barcelona to Aberdeen with flyGlobeSpan, but the flight times were a [...]