A nice article in this month’s English Language paper, In Madrid. Online version here. Sorry Jon. I asked for you to be credited for the pic, but no joy.
With the 2006 Mongol Rally only 19 days away, I can’t help but get excited… yet I’m not even going this year. My house mate, however, is. Pete will be driving one of 200 cars to leave Hyde Park on the 22nd of July. What’s more, Pete is following in my wheel tracks. He is part of a team of six taking 3 Austin Minis – Italian Job Style! www.mongolminis.com It is going to be absolute carnage! Talking of monumental road trips, I was reading over Marc’s Landrover magazine while I was back in the UK. I was absolutely fascinated…
We’d had the pleasure of being invited to the Wedding of James and Ana that took place on Friday evening. James is an English work Mate. After nearly four years of being with Ana, who is Spanish, the couple got married. It started off in a Church right in middle of town. After the ceremony we moved onto Camino Viejo for the reception. A good meal followed by a free bar and discoteca, with a nice selection of Music (James was adamant that he would not put up with just Ana’s choice of music) saw as celebrate through to 5…
This guy totally puts me to shame: www.wherethehellismatt.com Make sure you watch the video on his homepage. (Also available here) I think I’ve got some catching up to do…
My housemate had a bit of a result last weekend. He met a Mexican girl who seemed pretty keen on meeting up with him. She suggested that they watched the Mexico v Argentina game together. Not a bad offer. I think most blokes would be happy to have a date with a foreign girl watching the world cup, but he then remembered he’d offered to “look after” a friend’s very attractive Swedish friend who was in Madrid. She suggested watching the Germany v Sweden game together. Still doable… watch the Mexico game, make excuses and then go see the Sweden…
The weekend didn’t turn out quite as expected. We turned up at the dive center early to find it closed. 45 minutes later, we got a call from a friend of Philippe/Ana saying where the hell are you. It turns out that we were supposed to go round to the back of the center. They leave the front closed as there is no one to man the shop… So for a good start we missed the first dive. As a form of compensation, the dive center offered us a special trip with two bottles to get a double dive in.…
It’s all a bit exciting really. We haven’t been diving since last September and thanks to the persistence of Philippe we’re off to the Islas Hormigas this weekend. Allegedly one of the best dive sites in mainland Spain so it should be good. Espe, Ana, Philippe and I will be heading down to the Med’ tomorrow evening. It will be Espe’s and Ana’s first dives after completing their open water course last year. As I said, all very exciting stuff.
Gareth has left us once again, after 5 erm… typically Gareth type days. I think I escaped lightly but top marks to Philippe who kept up and managed to go to work everyday. So what happened? Well, if you’ve been reading, you’ll see that we had a steak last Wednesday. Thursday we went down to Kitty of Shays to watch the England v Trinidad game. A much more entertaining game than England’s first, and quite tense until (the aptly named) Crouch finally put one away. There were a fair few of us there, including a couple of random English lads…