Domocenter Bormujos

... are all hungry for love." -Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Since I've gotten here one of the main topics of conversations is how different life is here than in the states and parts of the world. It's almost like living in a fairytale because we are so accustomed to a different lifestyle.

Here they close down for a "siesta" mid-afternoon, there are no stores that are open 24 hours, the day starts a ...

... a bit of an adventure for her. She definitely was unsure about the Atlantic and the waves, but got better over the 2 days. A joy of the coastal areas is a great breeze that keeps temps down to much more comfortable levels. We were able to winddown and relax - including watching the European Football tourney outside with about 50 Germans. An unexpected pleasure was the 3 hour drive to Granada. They had upgraded us from ...

... It's not that it's unmanageable - on the contrary, I was quite impressed with how little I actually packed in - but one can imagine that 3 months' worth of anything weighs a fair amount (well, maybe not if you're anorexic and all your clothes are made out of paper serviettes...but I suppose even then you'd have to take along all sorts of things, like Donna Claire catalogues and other things to remind you of your goal). So we decided that we ...

... all year for many reasons, but mostly religious. Today and last week was the celebration of corpus, the body of Christ. The first hint were the many women we saw carrying red roses last Thursday in Barcelona. Then, today in Sevilla, we saw at least two processions leading up to local churches--bands playing; parishioners holding huge tall burning candles; altar boys, older ones in robes and priests; and ...

Well the good news is that I finally found a guy in a Kodak shop in Seville that knew his camera batteries. He sold me a Camera charger for a Fuji camera and it works perfectly. 35 euros was a lot cheaper than a new camera. Since I had mentally spent the cost of a camera in my head I went on a shopping spree and bought my self some new clothes. These will help extend the periods between laundry visits which are getting ...

... San Francisco Square, into a scooter parking lot. · There's a huge cathedral (which we visit later) that used to be a Moorish mosque, and the Christians repurposed it. It's the largest Cathedral in Spain, 3rd largest in Europe. · There's a Jewish quarter with very narrow streets that used to be a Jewish ghetto in the 12th century and now, except for the name itself, has nothing whatever to do with Jews. · Racking my ...

Some eight or ten hours later we arrived in Seville. Sneeze and I had selfishly each taken two seats on the bus; nonetheless, the night was less than enjoyable. I awakened at one point to a foot coming down on my head. Apparently the fellow behind me had quite long legs. Even now I shudder as I remember that foot resting against my poor head. It was around four or five as we wandered through the streets trying to locate a hostel. Other than the ...

... his eyes work on girls, so I just laughed, shook my head, and pushed him away, telling him we were going back to the group. He asked if I was mad at him, and I said no, but that we weren't going to do that anymore. But it was too late - Jairo had seen and was very upset. He said he was leaving, so I told him I'd go with him, but he told me to stay with Alejandro. I told him I wanted to go home, too, but he wouldn't hear any of it. Then I reminded him that we only had one set of keys ...

... We are in MAdrid now, which is also hot. Checked out some sights and now resting before a free concert tonight. I will be home on Tuesday and I am excited about my own bed, good air conditioning and Free water and refills. (and sleeping for a few days) I am now realizing that 6 weeks is a long time to be away from home and a normal routine. I will try to write again before i get home. If not, you will get a full recap of Madrid and everything else then. Blake

... using the floor plan of the mosque already on the site. It took four centuries to complete and contains the ashes of Ferdinand III and, reputedly, the remains of Christopher Colombus. It's really very big, in fact, the largest (by volume) in the world. This achieves the ambience of a very large, echoing, warehouse. The bell tower is the surviving minaret of the mosque. It is topped by a weather vane, the personification of Faith who holds a particularly stupid ...