I was reading through Steve Davey’s Unforgetable Places to see before you die earlier this week. A good book that I treated myself a few years back. It is full of fantastic photography and good accompanying text with tips for making your visit special (it’s quite clear to see the text is written by a photographer and possibly the reason it appeals so much to me). I remember having a discussion with Jon about how many of the 40 places included in the book we’d been to. At that time I’d managed a whopping 3 out of 40. Jon had…
After a frustrating non-constructive day trying to fix the Peugeot, Espe and I wandered down to the Cafe Central for a bit of Jazz and Blues. While in there a month or so ago I spotted that Ben Sidran was going to be performing in November. Having seen Sidran twice before over the last four years, I really wanted to return as he’s impressed me the most of all the groups I’ve seen there. We actually went down on Friday but, an hour before the concert, Cafe Central was full. We decided to return the Saturday and this this time…
That’s the best we could manage for a witty team name for the forth coming Rickshaw Run. So, here it is, our team website is officially… erm, a goer. Check it out in all its bilingual glory: www.shesagoa.com It’s Friday and you know your not going to get any work done so have a good read, leave some comments in the guestbook and then sponsor us. You know it makes sense. 🙂 On a completely unrelated note, I’ve just started using the Firefox 2 web browser, and it’s great (go and try it yourself). The best feature has to be…
Most of my recent posts have been about nice people that I’ve met over the last 4 years. I’ve felt the need to share how these people have influenced me. I guess I’m just getting soppy as I know I’m leaving Spain in 3 weeks time and there are a lot of people that I’m going to miss a great deal. Last night we invited David, Alberto and Paola over for dinner. I met both David and Alberto due to the Mongol Rally, and have remained friends while helping them prepare and watching them take part. Yet more people I’ll…
Yep, another one. Alan left Sun a little while back, but is now leaving Spain. He and his wife are moving back to the UK via Australia (they’ve got themselves a months vacation before having to start a new life / jobs in London). Alan, Marta, James, Ana, Espe and I met up in town on Friday evening before going on for a curry in the Taj (my boycott of the place obviously didn’t last long). We then moved onto the interestingly named Cock bar (where they charge and extortionate €5.10 for a bottle of Mahou) and then another bar…
A trip around the World is something I’ve wanted to do since my final year of Uni. Jon and I decided that we would go round the world together after graduating. We didn’t have the money to go immediately and once Jon had raised sufficient funds I found myself working in Madrid. Something I was not ready to give up at the time. Jon set of regardless, but I managed to wangle five consecutive weeks off work and join him in Thailand. That was my first real taster for travel, and as noticed by many, I came back a different…
The second leaving do within a week. This time it was for Ivan, the only remaining Italian in the office (of the original group that came over four years ago). Like Bertrand, he will continue to work for Sun but from his own country. Quite quiet in the office, one gets to know the real Ivan once he has a beer in is hand. I asked him what he’d miss most about Spain… “The Mahou”. On that note I feel this post should be dedicated to Gareth, as he would have loved to have been there. Anyway, it was a…
First off apologies to my sister. It was good to see yourself and Simon over once again last weekend. Its a shame I wasn’t really able to relax properly as I’m a bit overwhelmed with all the things I’ve got to do at the moment. Back to the topic of this post, last night we were out for Bertrand’s leaving do. Bertrand is one of the French engineers in the office and the evening did feel very French. Possibly due to the masses of bottles of wine on view behind the bar and all these people speaking French around me.…