This post was originally called Rickshaw Run Meet and was half written until last night. I’ve had a pretty shitty week, after the disaster that was the Rickshaw Run meeting that I organised and then several immensely busy days at work. I found myself being stitched with cases continuously ‘cos everyone else in my team is scared on taking cases on a particular range of products. Where would they be without me? Anyway, on a positive note, I spent last night with Alberto, Pete, Leo, Liz and Paula in a kind of post Mongol Rally meet up. We started in…

Despite an relatively cool summer for Madrid in August, once into September the temperature shot up into the 30s again. Highest official recording this week was 39 I think. This made sleeping difficult again, but last night we were treated to a spectacular storm. It is raining again now and it has dropped to a reasonable 28 degrees. Seeing lightening flash across the skies, I couldn’t resist trying to get some pics with lightening forks in them. This is something I’ve been wanting to do ever since seeing some spectacular storms in Austria as a kid. Once again, the Canon…

Its been a quite eventful uneventful week if you know what I mean. I had four innoculation jab at once last Thursday morning. Not the most pleasant of experiences, but it is all in preparation for our trip to India for the Rickshaw Run. They injected me with such nice things as Japanese Enciphalitis, Meningitis, Tetanus and Typhoid fever. I’ve got do go back for some second doses this week and I haven’t even started on Hepatitis A or B yet… Joy. On Thursday evening I met up with Lavinia a few beers and some tapas. Lavinia was my first…

After the heavy wedding weekend, I was looking forward to a quite week. A quiet week, I did not get. With Alberto back from Mongolia, Espe and I were invited over to his place on Tuesday night. Not feeling great I ended up being a bit antisocial and found it more difficult than usual understanding all the Spanish. That said Alberto, of course, had lots of stories to tell and it sounds as though the Mongol Rally lived up to its reputation. It turns out Tom declared them the champions of the rally, having been the first team to arrive…

I’ve just returned from our local bar downstairs. We are blessed with a bar right next door to our flat. Even better, they have a terrace out back, the owner is the freindliest bar owner I’ve ever met and his wife prepares simply fantastic food. Unfortunately they were closed last weekend for a well earned break. Unfortunate, as I wanted to treat the boys who were over for Henry and Natalia’s wedding to some of the goodness. I first met Henry 5 years ago when Jon and I were living in Bristol at Uni. We headed into Wales to see…