Highlight of the Week - chilling with vino tinto, vino blanco, beer, shandy and a new discovery of 'tinto verano con limon' which is red wine mixed with traditional lemonade or less traditional lemon Fanta in SPAIN in the SUNSHINE - woo!
Lowlight of the Week - Realising how unfit I am. Getting lost on a 1-hour mooch turned it into a 4-hour hilly hike. This was on the second day of my week-long holiday. I then spent the rest of the week aching all over - slightly depressing perhaps. I chose to solve it by eating lots of tapas and drinking lots of wine.
Embarrassing Moment of the Week - Where to start? I went into the women's toilet and almost walked into a 70-year-old Spanish woman, panicked because I didn't know the word for "sorry" so I bowed, almost knocking her out (I used to live on Japan, I blame it on that). My friends and I also got kicked out of the cathedral in Toledo in a rather loud and public fashion as we tried to sneak in because we'd missed the free entrance period by about 2 minutes (due to very misleading signs). Jesus would've been ashamed.
Yes, I haven't blogged for over a week as I've been sunning myself up in Spain. My friend won a stay in a 'villa' in the Spanish mountains, near a 'town' called Cecedillia. Not long before we left, the 'villa' was downgraded to a 'lodge' to a 'flat' and the 'town' to a 'village' that was more a of a cabin (but still very nice). I've got another friend who lives in Madrid, so I spent some time with her and we also went to the stunningly beautiful Toledo (although we spent most of our time there looking at things without knowing what they were) and the incredibly intimidating tomb of Franco (plus the odd thousand civil war victims!) I enjoyed myself immensely. Only small problem was the lovely 4-hour delay that Easy Jet provided us on the way back. Oh yes, and the perfectly grey sky that greeted us on our return - back to reality!
Also used the panorama function successfully for the first time on my camera - see above! Go me!
Lowlight of the Week - Realising how unfit I am. Getting lost on a 1-hour mooch turned it into a 4-hour hilly hike. This was on the second day of my week-long holiday. I then spent the rest of the week aching all over - slightly depressing perhaps. I chose to solve it by eating lots of tapas and drinking lots of wine.
Embarrassing Moment of the Week - Where to start? I went into the women's toilet and almost walked into a 70-year-old Spanish woman, panicked because I didn't know the word for "sorry" so I bowed, almost knocking her out (I used to live on Japan, I blame it on that). My friends and I also got kicked out of the cathedral in Toledo in a rather loud and public fashion as we tried to sneak in because we'd missed the free entrance period by about 2 minutes (due to very misleading signs). Jesus would've been ashamed.
Yes, I haven't blogged for over a week as I've been sunning myself up in Spain. My friend won a stay in a 'villa' in the Spanish mountains, near a 'town' called Cecedillia. Not long before we left, the 'villa' was downgraded to a 'lodge' to a 'flat' and the 'town' to a 'village' that was more a of a cabin (but still very nice). I've got another friend who lives in Madrid, so I spent some time with her and we also went to the stunningly beautiful Toledo (although we spent most of our time there looking at things without knowing what they were) and the incredibly intimidating tomb of Franco (plus the odd thousand civil war victims!) I enjoyed myself immensely. Only small problem was the lovely 4-hour delay that Easy Jet provided us on the way back. Oh yes, and the perfectly grey sky that greeted us on our return - back to reality!
Also used the panorama function successfully for the first time on my camera - see above! Go me!
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